Defterdar , i.e. keeper of the Rolls, large charged officer, in Persian Turkey and , to hold the roles of the militia and the public revenues. Like our former superintendents of finances, it has the incomes of the empire and receives the accounts of all the tax officials. It sits at the Couch.

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