[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [State papers](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin) › [Āʾīn-i Akbarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari) › [The Ain i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett) › 186 # The Institutes of Akbar 186: AIN 15. · MUSA’ADAT, OR LOANS TO OFFICERS. The Áín i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett) 186 - **Language:** English ### [186](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.186) Higher Officers, who receive lands or monthly salaries may occasionally come into difficulties when it would be against the rules of the government for them to ask for a present. For this reason His Majesty appointed a treasurer and a separate Mír ’Arz, and those who wish to borrow money, may now do so without prejudice to their honour, or annoyance of delay. For the first year, nothing is charged; in the second, the loan is increased by a sixteenth part of it; in the third year, by one-eighth; in the fourth year, by one-fourth; from the fifth to the seventh, by one-half; from the eighth to the tenth year, by three-fourths; from the tenth year and longer, double the original loan is charged, after which there is no further increase. His Majesty’s only object is to teach propriety in transactions; else mutual esteem will never increase among men from the nature of their mercantile affairs. This regulation brought unprincipled usurers to the proper path, and thus prevented much impropriety. - [Previous: 185](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.185) - [Next: 187](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.187) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.186](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.186) · Pramāṇa