"سرد لرحلة إلى موقع مدينة بابل في ١٨١١، طُبعت الآن لأول مرة: مذكرات على الأطلال؛ مع نقوش من الخرائط المدبئية للمؤلف: ملاحظات على طبوغرافية بابل القديمة،بقلم الرائد رينيل؛ في إشارة إلى المذكرات: مذكرات ثانية على الأطلال؛ في إشارة إلى ملاحظات الرائد رينيل: مع سرد لرحلة إلى برسبوليس: طُبعت الآن لأول مرة، مع كتابات مسمارية نسخت في برسبوليس ولم تُنشر من قبل: كتبها الراحل كلوديوس جيمس ريتش، المحترم، المقيم البريطاني السابق لشركة الهند الشرقية في بغداد. حررته أرملته." [‎٥‎٢] (٤٧٤/١٣٠)

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MEMOIR ON THE RUINS
ment is farmed for a stipulated yearly sum*. There
is also a Serdar or commandant of Janissaries, and a
* For the information of those who may be curious regarding such
subjects, I subjoin a statement of the revenue of Hillah, communicated
to me by the Serraf Bashi of the place:—
Annual Receipts of the Governor of Hillah,
From the farms and villages . . 100,000
Duties on rice, corn, &c., grown in the vicinity
and passing through the town from the Khezail
territory .... 100,000
Farm of sesame . . . . 1 5,000
dyeing . . . 15,000
the butchery . . . 6,000
silk .... 4,000
tannery .... 1,000
lime kilns . . • 1,500
Collections of voluntary contributions levied on
the townspeople under various pretexts about
three times a year generally . . 8,000
Miri on the dates . . . 20,000
Paid by the Commandant of Janissaries for his
appointment . . . . 2,000
Private revenue of the Zabit, his own farms, gardens 20,000
Total in piastres Hillah currency . 292,500
Add the difference of exchange . . 50,000
Total in standard Turkish piastres . 342,500
Public payments made by him to the Bagdad Government.
To the Pasha .... 260.000
Kiahya Bey . . . 30,000
Total in Turkish piastres . . 290,000
He also supplies Government with 5500 tagars of corn and barley,
in value about 165,000 piastres on the average ; but this he levies on
the farmers at the rate of two tagars for every five, over and above the
rent and imposts of their farms and produce. He must also supply
the Pasha's army or any detachment of it that may be in the neigh
bourhood ; fee the most powerful members of Government from time to
time, and yet be able to lay by a sufficiency not only for his own reim-