REVENUE OF ERIVAN. 
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lation, are numbered separately. Of these at present under the govern¬ 
ment of Erivan, are 5000 families, making altogether, with the 74,800, 
100,000 people. 
The Serdar holds his appointment from the King, for which he paid 
a very large sum. He possesses the most absolute sway in his govern¬ 
ment, and having the power of life and death in his hands, punishes 
offenders in the most summary manner. Indeed, the power which he 
exercises is little inferior to that of the King and the Princes. Some in¬ 
stances are related, in which he exerts a power from which the King has 
refrained; for he has been known so much to disregard the Mussulman 
clergy of Erivan, as to beat their priests, and to treat them with the 
greatest violence. 
We were informed that the revenues of his government are reckoned 
at about 180,000 tomauns, or 135,000/. ; a sum which, by extortion, 
and the ways and means peculiar to Persia, is much above that which 
by right he ought to receive. 
The regular revenue of Erivan and its dependent territory, is 100,000 
tomauns, which he has increased to 150,000. Some of the districts 
are farmed at a stated sum ; of others, he himself collects the revenue. 
The district of Sherour he lets for 40,000 tomauns, every thing over 
and above which, goes to the farmer, who, it is said, makes 4000 to¬ 
mauns by his agreement. 
* They are said to be as follows : 
150,000 tomauns. 
Maliat, Sader, &c. taxes on land, &c. 
12,000 -- 
Customs on imports. 
6000 -- 
Ijareh, or rent of the salt works of Kolpi. 
6000 - 
Gratuity from the Persian Government for extraordinary expenses, 
600 -- 
Pay as Serdar, from the King. 
174,600 
The remainder, to make up the 180,000, is received in presents, and in the numerous 
tours de laton^ so well understood by a Persian Governor. 
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