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Land-waiter, denotes an officer of the custom-house, whose duty is, upon landing any merchandise, to examine, taste, weigh, or measure it, and to take an account thereof. In some ports they also executethe office of a coast-waiter. They are likewise occasionally styled searchers, and are to attend and join with the patent-searcher in the execution of all dockets for the shipping of goods to be exported to foreign ports; and in cases where drawbacks on bounties are to be paid to the merchant on the exportation of any goods, they, as well as the patent-searchers, are to certify the shipping thereof on the debentures, Encyc. Londin....
Land waiter
Land waiter, means a customhouse officer with the responsibility of examining, tasting, weighing, measuring and accounting for merchandise landing at any port. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 884....
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Post entry
Post entry. When goods are weighed or measured, and the merchant has got an account thereof at the Custom House, and finds his entry already made too small, he must make a post or additional entry for the surplusage in the same manner as the first was done. As a merchant is always in time prior to the clearing of the vessel to make his post, he should take care not to over-enter. However, if this be the case, and an over-entry has been made and more paid or bonded for customs than the goods really landed amount to, the land-waiter and surveyor must signify the same upon oath, and a statement be made and subscribed by the person so over-entered, that neither he, nor any other to his knowledge, had any of the said goods over-entered on board the said ship, or anywhere landed them without payment of custom; which oath must be attested by the collector or comptroller, or their deputies, who then compute the duties and set down on the back of the certificate the several sums to be paid, McC...
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