_ 54 _ palace of the Kingdom of Portugal for my own dwelling and nature, to stray not a hairsbreadth from the path of my obligation. Since this that I am doing is what I must do, my intention is that the revenues of the port of the Kingdom of Jarun, after providing the mocarrias and pensions of the nobles of my household, the privileges and perquisites of all the officers of the customs house, both Moors and Portuguese in the usual way, the remainder of the revenues of the port of the Kingdom of Jarun and everything else that the customs house receives is to be handed over to the King of Portugal in payment of the tribute I am obliged to pay him, and I command that it be yielded and delivered to his officials, and they are to receive it. I command all the officials of my kingdom that they are not to twist a hair against this my firman and do always what they have to do with courtesy and in a good spirit. Given in the month of Maharram in the nine hundred and forty-eighth year of the era of Muhammad which is 27 February of the present year of 1543. This firman was signed and sealed by the King of Ormuz with his seals and insignia, and it had to be sent to Portugal, where it must be kept in the Torre do Tombo because it has not been seen in India.
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