_ 34 _ India and the Chief Officer of my Treasury there, commanding them that this decree be observed and caused to be observed; and the present factor of that factory and those who come hereafter to receive the revenues of the factory of that city, that of the dues payable by Reis Nur al-Din on his goods cleared each year, they should take five leques, as I have said above. A copy of this is to be registered by the clerk in the books of expenditure of the said Customs House by the said factor, and his acknowledgement of the said five leques will be entered in the accounts when he or the official who collected them has received that sum. This decree is valid as a Letter even though its effect is to last longer than a year, notwithstanding the ordinance of Book 2 to the contrary. André Vidal wrote it in Lisbon on 10 March 1571 It will be complied with as written although it is not issued by the chancery, notwithstanding the said ordinance to the contrary. I Bartolomeu Fruis ordered this to be written. The King
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