_ 382 _ poor persons who beg at his gate. More considerable alms for priests and descendants of the prophet Muhemmad and further alms for the souls of the departed, twelve leques. Forty leques eighty-eight, azars for the forty-six priests of his mosque, who are salaried. Three leques sixty azers to others who pray continually for his late father. To his guazil and Governor, for five horses he has in his possession, fifty leques annual salary, and two for the water he uses in his house. For the purchase of slaves ten leques. Three leques on Ambassadors when they arrive at the port of Render Angkon. Twenty on habitual gratuities. Thirty-three leques on food for the slaves, male and female, of past kings. Five on his dancers. On the muleteers who preceded him when he rides one leque twelve azars. On his goldsmiths one leque and a half. On the drummers in the palace the same sum. On twelve vigilantes who work in rotation by night, and on their commandant six leques. On dyers fifty azars. On four porters one leque. On repairs to the masonry and plastering of his houses ten leques. On his mother for dresses another ten leques. For his own sustenance end that of his kinsmen one hundred and forty-four leques. Ten on five maidservants. On six nursemaids and parsons who look after his children twenty-three leques. On salaries for his officials and nobles two hundred and fifty leques.
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