'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎253r] (510/706)

QASR-I-SHlRlN
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Under Iqbal-ud-Dauleh this system was changed, and various items
separated, so that ’Aziz Beg Sharafbaini paid his tribal dues direct to Kirman-
shah, ’Aziz Khan Bajlan likewise, while N’amatullah Khan Karindi took Sar-
i-Pul at kram 180,000 and Shir Khan Samsam-uJ-Mamalik, took Qasr-i-Shirin
and the Sinjabi tribe at krdns 120 , 000 . Quretu (Bajlan) was krtins 10 000
and S.iarafbaini about the same.
Of these sums about krdns 60,000 was “written back” (yas navishteh)
under the following headings.
( 1 ) Savdr va piddeh, cavalry and infantry (tribal levies).
( 2 ) Kharjti-Sufra, table expenses,” including expenses of establishment
entertaining, and public works undertaken, officials’ wages, etc. The taxes
were raised on cultivation and agriculture generally.
Up to the end of the reign of Muzafiar ud Din Shah, the Government were
supposed to touch, per annum :—
Sar-i-Pul ,.
Qasr and Sinjabi
Bajlan tribe
Sharafbaini tribe
Kalhiir tribe
Krans.
.. 180,000
.. 120,000
10,000
10,000
.. 150,000
‘Written back’
Total
470.000
100.000
370,000 or, at the rate of ex-
* change then obtain
ing about £6,500—
», ,i . ,. , , £7,000 per annum.
At the inception of the Majlis, or Constitution, the system was changed,
and as the lands are mostly crown property, the vujuhdt, or rents, were
separated from the mdlidt, and the plshkash —ostensibly—abolished. The
amount of the vujuhnt was established temporarily and experimentally as
below, the idea being to increase them each year till it was no longer possible
for the people to pay more. The system of collection was to auction them
to any bidder or bidders situate at the place concerned, and collection from
the buyers and people was made monthly.
The vujuhat were:—
Qasr town ..
Sar-i-Pul
•• •• • 9 # m
Pa-i-pul
Miankal
•• •• ••
Total
The Maliat then remained :—
Qasr-i-Shirin
Sar-i-Pul
Bajlan
Sharafbaini
Kalhui ..
Krans.
70.000
10.000
5,000 (by Sar-i-Pul]
10,000 (by Sar-i-Pul]
95,000=£1,800 pel
annum.
Krans.
50.000
155.000
15.000 (increased).
10.000
200.000 (increased).