Özet:

The “temettuat” (dividend) registers were kept throughout the first half of the 19th century in order to re-identify sources of tax revenue to prevent injustice in tax payment and to decrease the amount of tax citizens were expected to pay. These registers contain a lot of valuable information to help us determine the social, economic and demographic structure of many cities and towns. Such registers were also kept in Tırhala, Uskup and Drama and their surrounding towns for the defined purposes above from February 1845 to January 1847. Many clerks were employed for keeping these registers, and the expenditures made during this time included not only clerks’ salaries but also travel allowances and writing material costs. This study makes use of the “Maliye Masafirat” records which are numbered as 7181, 6953 and 10578 belonged to Tırhala, Skopje and Drama Sandjacks in the Prime Ministry archive in order to provide information on the expenditures made by each surrounding town, the number of clerks employed for keeping the registers and the amount of time it took to complete registration

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