_ 185 _ every single one of them. I resolve that none of the clauses shall be considered valid from the day and moment when the first firman was drawn up by the King Salgor Shah until this present one which I am now drawing up. It is my wish and pleasure to render service to my lord, the king of Portugal, through the yields from the Customs House by giving him all….. in this empire, which he, as the true king of this kingdom of Ormuz can take from it, through whatever means he claims. Now that I am King I renounce and place everything that I may receive whatever previous kings of Ormuz have possessed in His Highness’s hands. All the …… yield, both past and present, which is levied in tributes by His Highness’s officials must be properly paid. For this reason I declare and confirm that from now on and for ever, as long as the sun lasts, this duty is to be levied in the way and in the manner in which the Viceroys and Governors order in their statutes and provisions. They are to pay only the allowances and mocarrias pertaining to the kings and lords, my neighbours as well as money for my clothes, that of the noblemen and officials in my household, from the Customs House. As for as these matters are concerned, the King Salgor Shah’s first firman
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