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The Asiatic Journal for February 1830 (New Series)

1830

The Koran fixes with great precision the order of domestic succession; and the inviolable observance of the law of the prophet is the only legitimate basis of the Turkish sovereignty. [...] Of this prescription original inscriptions on stone and copper are the principal muniments.* It further appears that when the ancient princes of the country granted as they frequently did the landtax payable on certain villages specified in the grant the grant conveyed nothing beyond the tax the property of the soil remaining inviolate and untouched in the propritors. [...] It contains the general orders and decisions of the viceroy a narrative of the most remarkable events which occur in the provinces an account of the prgress of public works the arrival and departure of trading vessels and ships of war the attempts made to realize in Egypt the wonders of European industry and an abstract of the news of foreign countries. [...] The chief of them are the establishment of double registries in the management of the state accounts the limitation of the places of receivers or collectors to natives to the exclusion of Armenians Greeks and Jews who formerly farmed the reVen6e ; the erection of an exchequer or office of public accounts in Grand Cairo the capital ; and the endowment of a school for teaching practical admini [...] This grand divan assembled towards the end of August to the number of 160 ; and two Pachas the son and the grandson of the Viceroy attended as simple members of the council.
history
Pages
106
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120104
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
On Mr. Mill’s “History of British India.”
81-91 unknown view
The Prince Royal of Persia and the Royal Asiatic Society
91-92 unknown view
Political Changes in Egypt
93-96 unknown view
Present State of Literature in Russia
97-105 unknown view
The East-India Question
105-116 unknown view
Moses Menu and Mahomet
117-121 unknown view
Malicious Insinuation. Against Lord Amherst
121-121 unknown view
Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Munro
122-140 unknown view
Arab Military Song.*
140-140 unknown view
The Indian Army
141-144 unknown view
Chinese Epitaphs
144-144 unknown view
Lord Byron
145-155 unknown view
Punchayets and Zillaii Courts
156-160 unknown view
Miscellanies Original and Select
161-174 unknown view
Critical Notices
174-175 unknown view
Literary Intelligence
175-176 unknown view
New Publications
176-176 unknown view

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