_ 205 _ Therefore, I ask you to have tribute levied on all the terradas which come here. If they come without having paid, he will be obliged to account for this. The Governor will lose his post, if it is proved that any terrada has come and been despatched without paying duties. As used to be done in the past, every tenth terrada bearing wheat, barley or wool does not have taxes levied at the time they are despatched in the Customs House, because the evaluations are always very favourable. The calculations are carried out in two ways; one at sea, based on the number of bars of supplies in the terrada and the other before the Guazil in the Customs House, based on the value of the bar of supplies. Rais Sharaf replied that he was aware of whether he did this correctly or not, and that what he said was to be done and nothing else. After Rais Sharaf had left, the Captain told me to write down what Rais Sharaf had ordered because, if he had given the wrong orders, he would have to pay for it, and to make a note of the matters which had been settled. What he did was to substitute eighteen for the eighty out of a hundred which should have paid taxes. If they went to Basra, it was 11% and 5% from Rishahr, Verdestão and the surrounding areas.
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