Crossword-Solution: DUTIABLE 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The Custom-House marker imprinted it, with a stencil and black paint, on pepper-bags, and baskets of anatto, and cigar-boxes, and bales of all kinds of dutiable merchandise, in testimony that these commodities had paid the impost, and gone regularly through the office.

Canada, for the sake of peace, admitted American fishing vessels for the rest of that season, though Canadian fish at once became dutiable.

Nobody was disturbing it; nobody was interested in it; all the family's attempts to get attention to it had failed--except in the case of one of the trunks containing the dutiable goods.

The officer at once made me pay sixpence import-duty on the whisky-just from ship to shore, you see; and he fined me L5 for not declaring the goods, another L5 for falsely denying that I had anything dutiable about me, also L5 for concealing the goods, and L50 for smuggling, which is the maximum penalty for unlawfully bringing in goods under the value of sevenpence ha'penny.

They knew how he would fume and swear if he should be discovered with dutiable goods and held up in the Custom House, and they planned for this effect.