"Consignee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... United States, there to be examined by a revenue officer and their contents verified; but in practice the car, if the seal is found at the border to be intact, is passed to places not "ports" and is opened and unloaded by the consignee, no officer being present. The bill or manifest accompanying the merchandise and the unbroken seal on the car may furnish prima facie evidence that the amount and kind of merchandise named in the manifest and said to be contained in the car came from a port in the ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume IX. • Benjamin Harrison |
