_ 468 _ Expenditure on the Customs-house and its officials(A) C. 44. The allowances of the of King of Ormuz, his guazil, and other customs-house officials as stated Item: The King of Ormuz receives from the revenues of the customs house forty leques(B) each year for his wardrobe, which are worth five hundred and fifty-eight thousand one hundred and forty reis.(C) They will be given to him as the customs house receives them, and the factor will obtain receipts from him for his accounts. C. 45 Item: The guazil(D) of Ormuz receives thirty-six leques per year from the revenues of the customs house, which are worth five hundred and two thousand three hundred (A) V. Simão Botelho: “From the 1st of January 1543 only what the customs house brings in is to be collected for our Lord the King, whether it be much or little, from which the expenses of ambassadors, and the King of Ormuz, the guazil, and the customs house officials are paid, on the orders of Martim Afonso de Sousa, the Governor.” (Tombo, p. 86). (B) Leque One hundred thousand. The Ormuz leque had units of dinars. (C) In Simão Botelho, Tombo, p.101, “forty leques which are worth five hundred and sixty-four thousand one hundred and forty reis”. (D) Goazil or Goazil: from Arabic Wazir, i.e. Prime Minister of a King; Governor of a city.
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