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nople: an office which it is probahle continued to be exercised with punctu-
ality for some years subsequent to the conquest, while the Turkish power
was in a healthy and vigorous state; but within this last century the sum
sent to Constantinople has annually diminished; and for some time pre-
vious to the French invasion, the whole was reported to the Divan to be
absorbed in the regular and contingent expenses which attended the col-
lection of the tribute.
According to the constitution established by Selim, one of the principal
Effendis of Cairo was nominated receiver-general of the miri, to whose ac-
count were to be paid the several moneys received for this purpose by other
subordinate Effendis, nominated for that purpose, in the capital towns of
each district. The name of this officer was Rozmangi: his appointment
was vested in the Pasha, at the recommendation of the Shekh-el-Beled.
His accounts were examined and audited by the Pasha, the Tefterdar, and
the Shekh-el-Beled; and these officers were likewise charged with the di-
rection of the mint.
That part of the miri which was payable in kind was furnished exclusive-
ly by the provinces of Upper Egypt, and amounted to three hundred and
sixty-five thousand ardebs of grain: but as one ardeb of wheat was always
taken for one and a half of barley, the real supply consisted of two hun-
dred and fifty thousand ardebs of the former—the weight of the grain con-
tained in such measure being about two hundred and seventy pounds, and
its value between seven and eight shillings.
Besides the annual rents payable to the government, each heritor was re-
sponsible for a proportion of the value of his inheritance, settled arbitrarily
by the Pasha; and at any other transfer of property fines were levied by the
Cadi, and by the Effendis.
The different military corps, the public functionaries of all descriptions,
the Agas, and the Beys, had also an assumed or customary right to other
indirect taxes raised upon the cultivators, under the form of market dues,
warehouse room, monopolies for the sale of aqua vita;, wine, natron, and on
the establishment of ferry-boats, and trading vessels on the Nile. The an-
nual amount of these is supposed by Tallien, one of the members of the
French Institute, to have been 1,550 livres.
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nople: an office which it is probahle continued to be exercised with punctu-
ality for some years subsequent to the conquest, while the Turkish power
was in a healthy and vigorous state; but within this last century the sum
sent to Constantinople has annually diminished; and for some time pre-
vious to the French invasion, the whole was reported to the Divan to be
absorbed in the regular and contingent expenses which attended the col-
lection of the tribute.
According to the constitution established by Selim, one of the principal
Effendis of Cairo was nominated receiver-general of the miri, to whose ac-
count were to be paid the several moneys received for this purpose by other
subordinate Effendis, nominated for that purpose, in the capital towns of
each district. The name of this officer was Rozmangi: his appointment
was vested in the Pasha, at the recommendation of the Shekh-el-Beled.
His accounts were examined and audited by the Pasha, the Tefterdar, and
the Shekh-el-Beled; and these officers were likewise charged with the di-
rection of the mint.
That part of the miri which was payable in kind was furnished exclusive-
ly by the provinces of Upper Egypt, and amounted to three hundred and
sixty-five thousand ardebs of grain: but as one ardeb of wheat was always
taken for one and a half of barley, the real supply consisted of two hun-
dred and fifty thousand ardebs of the former—the weight of the grain con-
tained in such measure being about two hundred and seventy pounds, and
its value between seven and eight shillings.
Besides the annual rents payable to the government, each heritor was re-
sponsible for a proportion of the value of his inheritance, settled arbitrarily
by the Pasha; and at any other transfer of property fines were levied by the
Cadi, and by the Effendis.
The different military corps, the public functionaries of all descriptions,
the Agas, and the Beys, had also an assumed or customary right to other
indirect taxes raised upon the cultivators, under the form of market dues,
warehouse room, monopolies for the sale of aqua vita;, wine, natron, and on
the establishment of ferry-boats, and trading vessels on the Nile. The an-
nual amount of these is supposed by Tallien, one of the members of the
French Institute, to have been 1,550 livres.
3 I Religious