1 The mm ttemmnopiyi bm in aome tiilwib if * iMmip
2 UHedt the mriMCfao^tvMtlMi price 0mn afiindibrmedby fiiM«,iuid
3 fay atn on ihe tiibft
4 ' This pnctioe k oonfined to the nmlli ceilii ii tribci» wiu> inilrfd
5 •ie the enlj onet that have any fevenue at all. Even widi thiaiii»
6 taxes are only impoaedt when money ia netaMaiy Ibr Bome puipoia of
7 public utility. Their amount depends on the sum required, and tht
8 money ooUeded is ^ricdy applied to the public tervice. I do not
9 know two instances of a Khaun taxing his Oolooss for his own bene*
10 fit ; but the regular tax on Humsauyas, the infidel tax on Hindoos,
11 and the custonis collected on merchandise pa.ssiiig through the lands
12 of tiie Oolooss, are, in several cases, appropriated by the Khaun. The
13 two first of tliese 3m]>osts will be explained hereafter. They are
14 generally rolletled by individuals ; but the custoni^i, tlujugli some-
15 times divided fiTDonf? the Oolooss, are more li-equently received by
16 the Khaun : they are only le\ ied by Ooloosses, a little under the King,
17 who sometimes have fixed rates, and sometimes make a bargain with
18 the merchant j in whicli case the merchant may cither be considered
19 as paying duties, or as compounding with the Oolooss, to prevent
20 being plundoed.
21 Hmk it acaroely a aobdtviaion tbroug^nt tbe nationy which doea
22 notmaike Ita own arrangementa toptoHdefiir the maintenance >of
23 MooTlaiha (Mahommedan prieat8)f and fyr the leoeptwn of gneatai
24 bnt the manner m which those fimda are jwovided* will be fidly
25 ■eipbnaied hereafter.
26 The geneial hrar of the kingdom is that of Mahomet, which ia
27 adopted-indvflactioBa in the Oolooaaea also; but their peculiar oodo,
28 and the only one applied to their MmuU aidhninistration of oiminal
29 jnatioe, is the PooshtoonwuUe* or usage of the Afghauna; a rude
30 vyttem of customary law, founded on principles such as one woidd
31 suppose to huve prevailed before the inatitution of civil government.
32 The opinion that it is every man*s right and duty to do himself
33 • justice, and to revenge his own injuries, is by no means eradicated
34 &om among the Afghauxu; and the right of the society .even to re-
35 il
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