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SPECIFICATION OF ' TAXES, DUTIES, &C.
BEDEL ASKERI.
(MILITAUV EXEMPTION TAX.)
Two shillings and four and a half copper piastres per head for all male* inhabitants of
the Islaud, not being foreigners, of not less than 18 years or more than 60 years of age.
EXEMPTION'S.
Priests of all reUgious denominations ; all persons who are exempt from Military Service
by Turkish law either by personal service or by payment made before the passing of Ordinance
N o . V. of 1878 ; all persons mentally or physically incapacitated from Military Service;
and all persons in the Militaiy or Civil employment of the Government of the Island.
CUSTOMS DUTIES INCLUDING TITHE DUES LEVIABLE .
ON EXPORTATION.
IMPORT DUTY.
TABLE or SPECIFIC DUTIES.
Arms, Ammunition and Explosives, viz. :
Guns and pistols not exceeding in value £2 ...
...
tbe barrel
Guns ami pistols exceediug in value £2 but not exceeding in value £-4 each
Shot ...
...
...
...
...
tbe oke
Gunpowder
...
...
...
...
„
Blasting powder, blasting compound, dynamite, gun cotton and fuze
„
Bacon and ham
...
...
...
...
,,
Beans and peas of all kinds, roasted or otherwise
... per 100 okes
Beer, ale, porter, and all otber malt liquors in wood,
the gallon
Beer, ale, porter, and all other malt liquors in bottle, the dozen reputed quart
- bottles, and so in proportion
Biscuits :
In bulk ...
...
...
...
...
the oke
In tins ...
...
...
...
... the reputed lb.
Botargo ...
...
...
...
...
the oke
Butter, including butterine or any substance imported for mixing with or
for use as butter, but excluding butter in tins
...
the oke
Candles
Cards, Playing
...
...
...
... the dozen packs
Caviar :
Black ...
...
...
...
...
the oke
Red (tarama) ...
...
...
... the 100 okes
Cement, known as Portland, the barrel of 150 okes and so in proportion
Cement, other
... . „
,,
„
Cheese :
Kachkaval, toulonm and otber similar qualities
...
the oke
Other, that is to say, Gruyere, Dutch, Cheddar, Cheshire, Stilton, Gorgonzola,
Parmesan, Roquefort, Brie, etc., and their imitations ...
tbe oke
Cocoa, chocolate, chicory, coffee, roast or ground.
Coffee, raw...
...
...
...
... tbn 100 okes
Coppfti sheets, bottoms, bars aud nails
Copper-ware (pans, &c.)
Cordage, rope and twine
...
- ...
...
tbe oke
Cotton lamp-wick ...
...
...
... the 100 okes
Cotton yarns and thread, viz :
Siugle unbleached Xos. 4 to 1-1
...
...
„ „ 16 to 24
...
...
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t
„ „ 4 to 14
...
...
f>
,, ., 16 to 32
Twisted
Single bleached
Twiated bleached
„ of two or more threads, known as "Tireh"
Turkey red
Dyed other colours ...
Cottou piece goods :—
Grey or unbleached (Kassnrsiz), cotton sheetings, linings, drills, T. cloths
domestics, known as American bezi, dimi bezi, Tcharshafliq and Asdarliq
tbe 100 okes
White or bleached (Kassarli), cotton sheetings, drills, T. cloths, domestics
knowu as American bezi, Tcharshafliq, Dimi
... the 100 okes
Shirtings aud Madapolams, highly dressed aud finished with stiffening
material
• •
—
...
... the 100 okes
Shirtiugs and Madapolams not dressed or finished with stiffening material,
or but slightly so dressed ...
...
... the 100 okes
Muslins known as Kaba Tulbent, Tanjip and Teuzif
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AUTHOMTT.
Ordinance V. of 1878
xi amended by Ordi^
nance III. of 1880, and
Order of High Commit.
sioner of 32nd February
1879.
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Law No. XXII. of 1899.