LAND WALTER, an officer of the customhouse, whose duty is, upon landing any merchandise, to examine, taste, weigh, measure them, &c. and to take an account thereof.
thereof. In some ports they also execute the office of a coast waiter. They are likewise occasionally styled searchers, and are to attend and join with the patent searcher in the execution of all cockets for the shipping of goods to be exported to foreign parts; and in cases where drawbacks on bounties are to be paid to the merchant on the exportation of any goods, they, as well as the patent searchers, are to certify the shipping thereof on the debentures.