estanco

After the tobacco has been manufactured into cigars, the contractor has to deliver it at various stations throughout the islands, these places being generally the head-quarters of the fiscal or _estanco_ department of the different maritime provinces from which the other are supplied.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking

Both are an _estanco_ of government, and produce a large annual income.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

The tobacco used by the natives is not subject to the _estanco_, and on my inquiring as to the cost of a cigar in Cagayan, the answer was 'Casinada' (Almost nothing).

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

Sp. _estancar_, to stop a leak; _estanco_, water-tight.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

We stopped at one of the houses to get a drink of "tiste," and were visited by a fussy little man who told us that he was secretary to the judge and keeper of the "estanco," and in fact the ruling power in the town, which he placed at our disposal.

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

The _estanco_ (monopoly) and the chronic debt to those who farm the import-tax long compelled the public to pay dear for

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

About a mile down the valley we reached the small town of Jinotega, and put up at the estanco kept by a very polite and dignified elderly gentleman, who, in the customary phrase of the country, placed himself, his house, and all he possessed, at our service.

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

All that had any money were at the estanco, drinking aguardiente.

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

We had a long talk with our courteous host of the estanco at

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

From 1789 to 1794 the produce of the island amounted annually to 250,000 arrobas; but from that period to 1803 the increased price of land, the attention given exclusively to the coffee plantations and the sugar factories, little vexations in the exercise of the royal monopoly (estanco), and impediments in the way of export trade, have progressively diminished the produce by more than one-half.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851