The Mexican Guide

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Scribner's, 1898 - Počet stran: 531

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Strana 80 - Books, libraries, usual and reasonable furniture, and similar household effects of persons or families from foreign countries, all the foregoing if actually used abroad by them not less than one year, and not intended for any other person or persons, nor for sale.
Strana 80 - Wearing apparel in actual use, and other personal effects, not merchandise, professional books, implements, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or -employment, of persons arriving in the United States...
Strana 81 - Whenever any article subject to duty is found in the baggage of any person arriving within the United States, which was not, at the time ot making entry for such baggage, mentioned to the collector before whom such entry was made, by the person making entry, such article shall be forfeited, and the person in whose baggage it is found shall be liable to a penalty of treble the value of such article.
Strana 317 - ... admired. About the cloister they have fashioned out many holes and caves, in, under, and among the rocks, like hermits...
Strana 201 - ... Amen." In 1820 the Inquisition was suppressed forever in Mexico. Janvier says that " there is a certain poetic fitness to be found in the fact that the last years of the Inquisition in Mexico were spent in combating strenuously the spread of Liberalism ; that the last notable auto de fe ( November 26, 1815) was that at which the accused was the patriot Morelos. The finding against him was a foregone conclusion. ' The Presbitero Jose Maria Morelos...
Strana 80 - ... 512. Books, engravings, photographs, bound or unbound etchings, maps, and charts, which shall have been printed and bound or manufactured more than twenty years at the date of importation. 513. Books and pamphlets printed exclusively in languages other than English ; also books and music, in raised print, used exclusively by the blind. 514. Books, engravings, photographs, etchings, bound or unbound, maps and charts...
Strana 56 - in this last moment of my life I recommend to you the love of your country, and the observance of our holy religion. I die for having come to aid you; and depart happy because I die among you. I die with honor, not as a traitor. That stain will not attach to my children and their descendants. Preserve order, and be obedient to your commanders. From the bottom of my heart, I forgive all my enemies.
Strana 81 - The attention of the department has been invited to the fact that tourists and other persons visiting foreign countries return to the United States with articles subject to duty. Such tourists are often under the erroneous impression that all articles purchased for their personal use, or for the use of friends, or intended as presents, are exempt from duty. Persons who arrive in the United States will be required to make due entry on blanks to be furnished them by the proper customs officer of the...
Strana 433 - River at an elevation of 4,000 feet above the level of the sea. It is about seven miles long, half a mile to a mile wide, and nearly a mile deep in the solid granite flank of the range.

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