_ 181 _ My purpose is the revenue from the port of the Kingdom of Ormuz. When I have paid my mocarrias(A), the allowances of those noblemen in my household, other expenses throughout the kingdom such as the payments, profits and taxes relating to the officials in my kingdom both Portuguese and Moors according to our age-old custom, the rest of the revenue from the Customs House is to go towards settling payment on the tributes which I owe to the King of Portugal. Therefore I order that the factors be charged to pay the expenses of the fortress and those incurred by its lascars. Thus you, the officials from the Kingdom of Ormuz are to be aware that, in accordance with the aforementioned, what remains after paying the expenses of the Kingdom is for this Lord and his factors will collect it. Everything is to be carried out as I have said above, I order all the officials in this kingdom not to twist one single hair of my firman. They are always to act correctly and in an exemplary manner in what it is their duty to do. (A) The payment which the Kings of Ormuz made to the sovereigns in the lands over which or through which the camels trains passed, which were going on to Ormuz, so that these same sovereigns did not rob them or prevent them from continuing their journey.
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