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 of the Egyptian Administration, all taxes and dues should be assessed and levied in my name. ''I could not, therefore, in any way consent to the sums yielded by these taxes being employed otherwise than for the real requirements of the country, or to the inhabitants being burdened with new taxes without legitimate and recognized necessity. It is therefore my absolute decision that thy care and thy zeal should unceasingly be directed to these two important objects, as also to the necessity that my Egyptian subjects should be always treated with justice and equity.''

Moreover, as foreign loans pledge for many years the revenues of the country, I cannot permit that sums raised from the revenues of Egypt should be applied to the service of a loan, unless all the details of the reasons for having recourse thereto have been submitted to my Imperial Government, and unless my permission has been previously obtained.

It is therefore my desire that no loan should ever be made unless the necessity for having recourse to it be clearly established, and my permission previously obtained.

Thou wilt henceforth conform thy acts and thy conduct to the formal terms of my present Imperial Firman, which is in every particular in accordance with our respective rights and duties, as also to precedents.

The 22nd Chaban, 1286 (November 29, 1869).

Firman addressed by the Sultan to the Khedive of Egypt, cancelling the restrictions imposed hy the Firman of 29th November, 1869, and confirming the privileges accorded by the Firman of 8th June, 1867. 10th September, 1872.

The privileges granted to the Egyptian Government on the part of our Imperial Government, with, the object of developing the prosperity of Egypt, are connected with the entire accomplishment by the said Government of certain duties and conditions that have been laid down towards our Imperial Government,