'Muscat reforms: customs; finances and negotiations with Omanis' [‎218r] (440/508)

understood and that the obiection* f,> •
wujeosions tc tae imposition will be
found to be ne -rli-ible in the t i fct of fh„ •
1 ■ I;i 01 sne io..loy,in-. remerks.
the Saket is in Kusnpt- in m . , ,
tiubud a m no sense in exoort dut^ but
it is the rirht of r, Moslem ruler to r. portion of the Produce
of the soil. Ms portion veries but is usurll; one tenth.
It is however fully within the power of the ruler to ? S ry thic
praportion ror special re- scns» end th. t this h n after bp ^r
done is spT^rent from bistcrj. In Imci t the BalUu k<s t^ken
this ?,?• krt on the coeet because he wis unable to collect in the
interior, t uu nsufill^ xrom the buyers of the produce, tlj t is
froE British Jiio:xLj-xii\:* ./li? t h* s not been understood howeYer
is the t the incidence 01 this tsx fells on the interior s th-t is
on those who brinr their rroduce down to the corst for si le
because the -rice pU,c by the British merchant fcr the ].reduce
is ilxea on tne express condition thrt the l ^rit^sh it erchant
the
psj^Baket• It is f ratter of convenience only* For
instance the price at which an exporter cm sell a certain kind
of date in India is say .:s. 30/- per ba; • If he prota^ec Ic
pay the ze-h. t he will only p-j the Qtaani at a rate less Lie
profit, the cost of transport and the sakat• 'lie zakat never
falls on the British merchant unless it is suddenly alterea in
the middle of ' date season v.i en transactions arc in full swina:
and -payment has been made in advance, "'his was what he ^ anea
when formerly the Jul tan attempted to impose this measure. Ilo
proper notice was 'iTan, the whole market was upset and the
British merchant rightly can palined#
It the sa a time the events of the last fi\ r e years have
caused the British ma relents to stop all running fc counts with
the producers in the interior, ^he dates are not paid for till
they arrive on the coast, and the method of payment is partly
in cash, partly in rice and piece floods, i ! n-ll notice is
fTiven the merchants may be re lied upon co look (■ itar i-aemcfcx ^eB#
They fix the price which is regulated oy outside cor.T.-e'.iuion
in the Indian market, and they wial simply pzj & - siu^ller
price