_ 82 _ revenues, as they are collected by His Highness’s officials, from former times to the present, are well collected. I declare and confirm it as such, and it will be collected henceforward in the same way forever, as long as the sun endures, in the manner and form in which the viceroys and governors may determined by their standing orders and writs. I withhold only the allowances and macarrias as payable to the rulers and kings who are my neighbors, my own clothing allowance and that of the nobles and officials of my household and of the customs house, for these things remain in full force from the first firman of King Salgur Shah. Therefore, you the Guazil and officials will carry out punctually this my firman without altering comma, whether relating to time past, present or future, for as long as the sun endures, without contradiction or misinterpretation. Written in the month of Rabi in the year A.H. 973. Reis Nur al-Din of Ormuz ordered this to be written. The firman of the king was copied from Book 7 of the registers of the factory of Ormuz, fos. 97 to 149v. As there were great arguments among the King, captains and chief treasury officers over these macarrias paid to Shah Tahmasp and other neighboring rulers, the
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