They are paid out of the revenues as they are collected, and their receipts sent in to the treasury.

For some good or pleasing services rendered by him to the minister this year, in the trial of offenders whom that minister wished to screen, three lacs of rupees have been paid to the mojtahid as _zukaat_ for distribution to the poor.

This has all been appropriated by the mojtahid, the minister, and Court favourites.
The State, like individuals, is bound to pay this _zukaat_ only when it is free from debts of all kinds.

The present King's father was free from debt, and had his establishments always paid up; and he always paid this charity punctually.

The present King is not bound to pay it, but the high-priest, minister, and Court favourites are too deeply interested in its payment to permit its discontinuance; and the king, like a mere child in their hands, acquiesces in all they propose.