_ 159 _ Simão da Costa, a casado who has lived in Ormuz for a long time and given good service. These offices have no salary, and from perquisites which the Moors call lagimas they bring two thousand cruzados income a year, or rather more. I am informed that it is not in the King’s interest that these two offices should be held together because as the corrector mor has certain rights in evaluations, if he is also valuer he is evaluating for himself. So it is right that henceforward the appointments should be separate, and that of corretor môr will bring in one thousand five hundred cruzados a year, and of valuer, over five hundred. Kalhat and Muscat The King of Ormuz has some fine cities and villages on the coast of Arabia with good trade and profits, of which the principal ones are Kalhat and Muscat, which are eighteen leagues apart. In each of them the Kings of Portugal have a factor, who receives no salary from the royal treasury. The factor of Muscat has from three to four thousand cruzados net over three years. The appointment to this office of long-serving soldiers is made in Portugal and often in India, if the King has not appointed. The factor of Kalhat has between one thousand five hundred and two thousand cruzados net over three years.
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