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TURKEY AND TRIBUTARY STATES

20,000,000 piastres (166, 000?. )• The expenses are reckoned at 15,000,000 piastres (125,000Z.), The stipend of the sheik-ul-Islam 7,031,520 piastres (59,000/.), and those of the Naibs and Muftis 7,876,646 piastres (66,000/.), are paid by the State. The principal revenues of the Evkaf are derived from the sale of landed property which has been bequeathed it, and which is known under the name of Vacouf. Three-fourths of the urban property of the Empire is supposed to belong to the Vacouf. Purchasers of property of this description pay a nominal annual rent to the Evkaf; but should they die without direct heirs the projierty reverts to the Church.

Finance.

A general view of the various sources of the public revenue of Turkey and of the branches of expenditure is given in the following tables, in which the average revenue and expenditure (including supplementary credits) for the years 1308-1310 (1892-93 to 1894-95) are shown, together with the oflEicial estimates for the year 1313 (ending February 28, 1898) : —

Sources of Revenue.

Average.

1897-98

Direct :

£T

£T

Tithes

4,332,338

4,100,000

Verghis (land and property tax)

2,511,924

2,511,924

Temettu (income tax) ,

742,135

500,000

Exemption from military service.

886,210

886,210

Aghnams (tax on sheep, &c. )

1,737,849

1,937,849

Various

321,273

321,273

Indirect :

Customs. ., ..

2,165,784

2,000,000

Various 1

2,571,146

2,571,146

Administrative :

Military departments.

532,793

532,793

Civil ,, ...

1,938,202

1,962,036

Share in Tobacco Regie profits

51,775

51,775

Tribute revenues various ^ Total

1,136,316

1,136,316

18,927,745

18,511,322

1 Salt, tobacco, spirits, stamps, fisheries,

silk and other sourc

es niostlj' assigned to

the Ottoman Debt Administration,

2 Including those assigned to the Debt Administration.

Branches of Expenditure.

Average.

1897-98

£T

£T

Civil List

932,550

882,550

Public debt :

Tributary debt ....

\

750,059

Loans under Debt Administration.

2,661,991

Other loans

1,204,839

Floating debt ....

r 6,483,253

523,523

Railway guarantees

868,894

War indemnity to Russia

450,000

Pious foundations, &c. .

795,490

749,484

Military departments :

War

5,296,953

4,489,698