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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &C.
•RENTS OF GOVERNMENT LANDS AND BUILDINGS
LEASED AND LET TO INDIVIDUALS.
AUTHORITY.
Mining
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(Begulations Law of 1
within the
year
hich it relates.
to Shaban, 1286, Art 40
j and 43.
* ROYALTIES.
ORIGINAL MINES.
Mineral'deposits containing gold, silver, platinum, mercury, lead, iron, copper, tin,
zinc, bismuth, cobalt, nickel, chrome, arsenic, manganese, antimony, aluminium, sulphur,
orpiment, alum, coal of various descriptions, bitumen, naphtha, and any other analogous
substances, and precious stones of any kind whatsoever:
Proportional duties from the annual product without deducting the expenses
1 per cent.-5 per cent, (a)
li taken from the pure mineral substances after-the same have been smelted and
liquefied, the costs of smelting and liquefying shall be deducted.
Emery and meerschaum : Duty to befixedaccording to the mine.
Government is at liberty to take mining duties in kind or in money according to the
current prices of the time.
The proportional duties are recoverable in the following year by instalments.
OIL.
Rate of royalty to be provided in licence
MINES OTHER THAN ORIGINAL MINES, QUARRIES, ETC.
Asbestos whether in the rough or clean (b) .. .. .. 5 per cent, in value
Gypsum and gypsum stone
Lime and lime stone
Terra umbra, whether raw, calcined or levigated
Stone quarried from State lands
Shingle and sand
A n y other mineral substance . . . . . .
All such Royalties shall be assessed and collected by the Customs Authorities at the
Port of shipment. The Customs Authorities are empowered in the event of the value of
any mineral being in their opinion insufficiently or incorrectly declared to demand and
take in respect of the said mineral the above Royalty or any part thereof in kind instead
of in cash.
3cp. per ton
tycp. per ton
3s. tycp. per ton
tycp. per cubic yard
4icp. per ton
5 per cent, in value.
The Ottoman Mines
Regulations Law of
r* Shaban, 1235.
Art. 2, 41 and 43.
L a w No. 6 of 1916,
sec. 4.
Order in Council No.
508 published in Gasette
No. 1010 of 9th Jtme
r
y » l l , and Order in
Conncil No. 920 pub–
lished in Gazette No.
1585 of 16th Feb., 1923.
• INTEREST
Interest at the rate of two per
the Government General Account at the Imperial Ottoman Bank.
ON GOVERNMENT MONEY.
i * •* -T. i ,
n
... _-_.,. . 1 Agreement dated 25th
c nt, per annum onthe daily Balance less £10,000 of (. March, 1905, with Imp-t–
rial Ottoman Bank.
* STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER, &c.
The following charges are payable to the Cnstoms Treasury of the District of Larnaca by
any person storing any explosive substance in the Government Store at Lamaca:—
1 copper piastre per month, or part thereof for every keg or case containing not more
than 10 okes of explosive substance.
2 copper piastres per month, or part thereof for every keg or. case containing more than
10 okes.
In tlie case of storage rate of any explosive substance remaining unpaid for 6 months, th
e
Chief Collector of
CUSDOIUS
may sell a sufficient quantity to cover the arrears of the storage rate.
The Board of Bvkaf is entitled to 3tore explosive substances in the Government Store
withont the payment of any rate.
For storage of explosives at Famagusta. See foot note on page 6.
* PROCEEDS OF UNCLAIMED ESTATES.
Order of High Com-
• missioner published ia
' Gas. No. 972 page 7044.
Ottoman Land Code.
(7 Ramazan, 1274).
(a) N e w Lymni Ltd. Royalty fixed nt 3 per cent, on copper aud minerals of equal or lesser value and
5 per cent, on mineral.* of a greater value than copper and on precious stones after deducting certain costs,
and £30 per annum rent.
Crprus Mines Corporation. Royalty 3 per cent,, on first 50,000 tons of ore excavated, 2 per cent, on second
60,000 and 1 per cent, on any excess"above 100,000 tons, in any year.
(ft) A royalty of 2 per cent, in value is leviable on the asbesto-s produced by the Cyprian Mining
Companv. Ltd.. from its leases (now transferred to the Cyprus Asbestos Company, Limited) up to the
5th Deceml>er, 1925.
} Indenture of 1 st Supt.,.
\ 1910, Clause 7.
• Indentures of 20th
\ Nov., 1915 and 2nd
' April, 1919.
!
indenture of 6th Dec.,.
1915 published in Gaz.
No. 1206 of 17th Dec.
1916.