Octroi

At every entrance to the city past the barriers, (which are now only a street,) there is a gate, and a building marked "Octroi," which means customs.

Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

During the 300 years India was a British colony, government officials created "Octroi," a tax that started with the East India Company as a way to reward civil servants and soldiers with the right to collect revenue.

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There have also been demands for Octroi dues outside some French and Italian towns.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

Glad were we when they reached the _Octroi_, and when the indulgent _Barrière_ passed them with all the honours of the

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various

In imperial France, though the land had been divided by an Agrarian law, and cultivated, yet the Octroi, with other revenues, were devoted to the poor.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 397, November 7, 1829 Various

At the Octroi gate, beside the railway, is the entrance into the +Asile des

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

A chef de bataillon of the 34th was slain by a shot from a window, and some offices of the Octroi have been burned.

Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg

A moment later we had passed the _Octroi_, and Pau was behind us.

Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922

The effect of the grim old gateways, even upon me, is a little marred by the fact that from out of their shadows usually jump small blue-uniformed Octroi men like Jacks from a box.

My Friend the Chauffeur Frederic [Illustrator] Lowenheim 1901

Each burgh had exclusive rights of trading in its area, and of taking toll on merchants coming within its _Octroi_.

A Short History of Scotland Andrew Lang 1878