impost

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“Choice Carolina Pork and Beef, to be sold at the Warehouse on the South side of the Town Dock, adjoining the Impost office.”

From Curiosities of History Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 by Wheildon, William W.

The Engineer is the Conductor of Roads and Bridges; then I have the Receiver of Registrations, the First Clerk of Excise, and the Perceiver of the Impost.

From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Impost and duties on trade, which must be collected in the great importing towns, are the means by which an American revenue will be principally, and perhaps wholly raised.

From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Ford, Paul Leicester

If I had us'd Bricks it wou'd have cost me a great deal more Money; and I cou'd not have finish'd my Buildings without laying an extraordinary Impost upon my Country.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

I. The Impost capital.—It is found in SS.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander