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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES. AC.
•RENTS OF G O V E R N M E N T LANDS AND BUILDINGS
LEASED A N D LET TO INDIVIDUALS.
Mining
: 5 paras per annum per
.1 donum recoverable
within the year
which it relates.
to
Al'TII'-KlTV.
The Ottoman Mines
P.emulations Liw of 2
Miaban. liS... Art. 40
ami -l.V
Gypsum and gypsum stone
Lime and lime stone
Terra umbra, whether raw, calcined or levigated
Stone quarried from State lands
Shingle- and sand
Any 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.
* ROYALTIES.
ORIGINAL MINES.
Mineral deposits containing gold, silver, platinum, mercury, lead, iron, copper, tin,
:inc, 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)
If 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 be fixed according to the mine.
Government is at liberty to take mining duties in kind or in money according to . he
unent 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 (61 .. .. .. 5 per cent, in value
3cp. per ton
iicp. per ton
3s. 4-icp. per ton
4 lcp. per cubic yard
iIcp. per ton
."> per cent, in value.
The Ottoman Mines
Regulations L a w of
Z Shahiin. 128.->.
Art. 2.41 and 43.
L a w N o . 5 of 1982*
sec. 13.
Order in Council No.
508 published in Gazette
No. 1010 ot 9th Jane.
M 9 I 1 . and Order in
Council No. 920 pub–
lished in Gazette No.
15«5 of 16th Feb., 1923.
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* INTEREST ON G O V E R N M E N T MONEYS.
Interest ;it the nice of two per cent, per annum on the daily Balance less £10,000 of
che Government General Account ac tiie 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 Larnaca:—
1 copper piastre per month, or part thereof for every keg or case containing not mor*
3
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 the case of storage rate of any explosive substance remaining unpaid for 6 months, the
Chief Collector of Customs may sell a sufficient quantity to cover the arrears of the storage rate.
The Board of Evkaf is entitled to store explosive substances in the Government Store
without the payment of any race.
For storage of explosives ac Famagusta. See foot note on page 6.
* PROCEEDS OF UNCLAIMED ESTATES.
Agreement dated 25th
March. 1905, with Impe–
rial Ottomaa Back.
Order of High Com–
missioner published in
Gazette N o . 972 of 15th
April, 1910.
Ottoman Land Code.
(T Itaraazaa, 1274).
(a) N e w Lymni Ltd. Royalty rixetl nt 3 per cent, on copper and minerals of equal -it lesser value and
5 per cent, nn minerals of a greater rains than copper and an precious stones after deducting certain costs,
and £30 per annum rent.
Cypras Minea Corporation. Royalty 3 per cent, on first -.0,000 tons oi ore excavated. 2 per cent.on second
50,000 and 1 per cent, oa any excess above 100.000 tons, in any year.
(V) A royalty of 2 per cent, in value is leviable on the asbestos produced by the Cyprian Mining
Company, Ltd.. from Us leases (now transferred to the Cyorus Asbestos Company, Limited) up to the
fit a December, 192...
I Indenture of I st Scj. t..
\ 1'J 10. Clause 7.
!
Indentures of 2Cth
STOT.. 1915 and 2nd
April, 1919.
• Indeture of Sth Dec,
I 1915. published in Gaz.
( No. 1206 of 17th Dec-
) 1915.