_ 455 _ paid anything, as I am informed that there are no Malabari carpenters there; the maintenance paid to them should be used to employ others instead, because there are local carpenters who can serve as required and who can be paid by the day when they serve. C. 24 He had ordered that there should be no treasury bailiff in the fortress of Ormuz, and he now ordered that there should be one in certain circumstances. Item: In the previous standing orders I said that the fortress should not have a treasury bailiff because this seemed unnecessary. At the request of the chief treasury officer then resident, who said that it was essential to have a bailiff the better to collect revenues due to His Highness’s treasury and for many other duties in his service, I later ordered that there should be such an official. Now the office of alcaide do mar has been abolished, that of treasury bailiff becomes more necessary, and I have therefore decided that it is in the interest of my Lord the King that there should be this office in that fortress. He will have a salary of twenty-five thousand reis per year, with the stipulation that whenever it is necessary to carry out such duties at sea the said treasury bailiff will go when he
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