This chapter focuses on three aspects of the system of control. They are the tangible ways in which, the levy of customs and excise was organised, the role played by customs inspectors in controlling their subordinates, and the use of courts to control both officials and customs payers. In its efforts to get a grip on society and to control its own servants, the Swedish early modern state had a number of tools and strategies at its disposal. The belongings of ordinary domestic servants could be hard to disentangle from those of their master, since they lived on the same premises. The fluid boundaries between workplace and home could confuse the distinction between the property of the state and that of the state servant. To prevent officials from fraternising with customs payers, the state devised a policy that meant that they had to move at intervals from town to town.