_ 471 _ continue to serve. When the number falls short of those required and it is necessary to replace one or several of them, you as captain and the chief treasury officer and customs house officials will inform the viceroy of India of the need to appoint in the service of my Lord the King. But there will be not more than one Portuguese clerk in this customs house, as has been said. C. 52 Item: The weights officer, who is Portuguese, will receive a salary of fifty thousand reis per year. C. 53 Item: The customs house interpreter will receive a salary of seventy-five azars(A) two and a half sedis per year, which comes to ten thousand five hundred reis. C. 54 Item: The door-keeper of the customs house, who is also Portuguese, will receive a salary of twenty-eight thousand eight hundred reis per year. He will also hold the seal of the customs house and apply it, and receive only those perquisites which are laid down for the seal. The person who was serving as seal-holder will cease to serve because I (A) Azar: an Ormuzi coin worth 150 reis. From Persian hazir, ‘thousand’, since the azar represents one thousand dinars. Sedi or çadi: in Ormuz, the name for one hundred dinars.
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