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Smug IS ii Is cosuil nach rud ur ar bith an smuglail. lnsfonn na caipeisf seo a leanas sceal beag suimiuil. Fear as Gaoth Dobhair ar beireadh air sa bhliain 1855 ag teacht isteach cul na hEargala agus 16d tobaca leis - ocht gcead meiilchain de thobaca a thainig i dtfr 6 dha bhad agus a cuireadh i bhfolach fa na cnoic. Bhf an fear ceanna tostach go maith - nf thug se ainm n6 sloinneadh na ce acu bhf se p6sta n6 dfomhaoin. £100 de chiilin n6 9 mi priosuin a cuireach air. T6gadh an beathach agus an carr agus dfoladh iad ar £7: 17:6. Gura slan leis an tseanam! (Ta muid an-bhufoch do Rupert 0 Cochliilin as an Chruit a thug an chaipeis duinn. An tEagarth6ir) The King's Customs by HENRYA TTON & HENRYHURSTHOLLAND . (LONDON: John Murray - 1910) Vol. ii Page488 No. 58. Precis of papers connected with a seizure in Ireland (Co. Donegal) showing method of charging expenses, subsistance, etc. 13th March 1855. Sir, I beg leave to acquaint you that on the night of the 10th instant a seizure of 8 cwt. of tobacco, with the man, horse and cart by which it was conveyed, was made by the Revenue Police stationed at Church Hill, in the Letterkenny road, 24 miles inland. It appears that the man ...... apprehended in charge of it is from the neighbourhood of Derrybeg, and I have every reason to conclude that this seizure is the remaining portion of the tobacco landed from the BETSY and NORA CREINA, as reported in my letter of the 11th Novr. last enclosing the deposition of James ...... , and which tobacco, having been conceiled in the adjacent mountains, escaped the strict search made by the Coastguard and the Revenue Police at the time. It evidently follows from this and the three previous seizures made by the Coastguard and Constabilary that the smugglers have been baffled in all their attempts to secure the tobacco after it was landed, the whole of which I am credibly informed has now been seized. To the Comptroller of Coastguard, LONDON. 78 &c., &c. FRANCIS COLLINS, ,· Inspecting Lieutenant