The sole measure authored by Paul that was ultimately enacted allowed for a federal customhouse to be sold to a local historic preservation society (H.R. 2121 in 2009).
In addition to the Woolworth Building, his major works in New York included the U.S. customhouse (1899 1905; in a Renaissance style with Germanic detail) and the federal courthouse (completed 1936).
A five-year investigation led to its return at a news conference at the United States Customhouse in Manhattan.
The area which, to his dismay, unofficially acquired his name came to include a number of blocks on Bienville, Conti, Customhouse, St . Louis Marais, North Basin, North Franklin, North Robertson, Treme, and Villere streets.
Next to this was the 1863 Customhouse building, and outside the two was an open space known as Customhouse Square.
Such warrants authorized customhouse officers (with the assistance of a sheriff, justice of the peace, or constable) to search any house for smuggled goods without specifying either the house or the goods.
Mackintosh was briefly detained, but, after a gentlemen's militia threatened not to defend the customhouse from future mobs, the sheriff let him go.
Largely self-educated, he made his living as a secretary-translator at Riga and Courland and as a government employee (1767 84) in the excise office and customhouse.
Customhouse (18 Fryatt Street, thecustomhouse.co.nz) is an airy, upmarket cafe-bar-restaurant on the harbour, housed in – yep – the former custom house.
