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sāyera

Notes n. custom duty (Turner 1931: s.v. sāyar); tax on local market goods (Krauskopff and Meyer 2000: 186). According to Wilson the term can also denote "the remaining or all other sources of revenue accruing to the government, in addition to the landtax" (Wilsonr 1855: s.v. sair).
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