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The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels.

was dissolved. Jer. iii. 8. -- Bill of entry, a written account of goods entered at the customhouse, whether imported or intended for exportation. -- Bill of exceptions. See under Exception. -- Bill of exchange (Com.), a written order or request from one person or house to another, desiring the latter to pay to som…

goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods, for the duties on which bonds are given at the customhouse. -- Bonded warehouse, a warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs officers.

A customhouse where transit duties are levied. [China] S. W. Williams.

tion; to net. The profit which she cleared on the cargo. Macaulay. To clear a ship at the customhouse, to exhibit the documents required by law, give bonds, or perform other acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such papers as the law requires. -- To clear a ship for action, or To clear for action (Nau…

A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail. Every ship was subject to seizure for want of stamped clearances. Durke

bbit, remarkable for its extensive burrows; -- called also sand mole. -- Coast waiter, a customhouse officer who superintends the landing or shipping of goods for the coast trade. [Eng.]

A customhouse seal; a certified document given to a shopper as a warrant that his goods have been duly enstered and have paid duty.

A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation. Burrill.

A customhouse.

er the particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of merchandise at the customhouse.

The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.

The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n.,

A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.

aving charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation. [China] Hoppo men, Chinese customhouse officers.

A customhouse officer who searches ships for unentered goods. [Eng.] [Written also jerguer.]

tate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage. -- Landing waiter, a customhouse officer who oversees the landing of goods, etc., from vessels; a landwaiter.

g a description by marks, numbers, etc., of each package of goods, to be exhibited at the customhouse. Bouvier.

o which a ship or its cargo is subjected in a harbor. -- Port of entry, a harbor where a customhouse is established for the legal entry of merchandise. -- Port toll (Law), a payment made for the privilege of bringing goods into port. -- Port warden, the officer in charge of a port; a harbor master.

A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake.