Cyprus, As I Saw It In 1879 By Sir Samuel White Baker





















































 -  Octroi. Every load brought from the villages to the town pays
           a tax of one oke per load, or in - Page 424
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Octroi. Every Load Brought From The Villages To The Town Pays A Tax Of One Oke Per Load, Or In Money, According To The Market Rate Of The Goods. 13.

Tax on the sale of mules, horses, donkeys, oxen, and camels in the town, 1 para per piastre of the price. 14.

Property tax (municipal) paid by owners:-- On houses let to tenants, 5 per cent. per annum. On houses inhabited by the owners, 3 per cent. per annum. 15. Tax on camels (M.) 2 shillings each per annum. 16. Tax on carts (M.) belonging to and working in Larnaca and Marina townships, 1*. each per annum. 17. Corvee. Forced labour on roads four days a year. 18. Shop licences (M.) in classes, 10*, 5*., 2*., 1*., 10 shillings. 19. Wine licences (C.H.) in classes, 25 per cent., 12.5 per cent., 6.25 per cent. on rental. 20. Licences to merchants, bankers, &c., (M.) in classes, 10*., 5*., 2*., 1*. 21. Monopolies. Salt, gunpowder. 22. Custom House duties 8 per cent. on imports, 1 per cent. exports.

Custom House duty on wine, 10 per cent. Custom House duty on imported tobacco, 75 per cent; on home grown, or imported unmanufactured, 10 pence a pound. 23. Stamps, transfer and succession duties. Mubashine. Voted to remain in force until March 1st, 1879.

[Transcriber's Note: Omitted table of villages on page 388 which was hard to read.]

There are other taxes according to the laws of succession upon the death of an individual which I give in the same words as furnished to me by the authority:--

Memorandum of the Defter Hakkani about the Transfer in Succesion of Property.

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