The amount of the _jazīya_, or tax upon infidels, differed according to the wealth of the individual Parsi, but it was never less than two _tomāns_. A _toman_ is now worth about three shillings and eight pence, but it used to be worth much more. Even now, when money has much depreciated, it represents a labourer’s wage for ten days. The money had to be paid on the spot, when the _farrash_, who was acting as collector, met the man. The _farrash_ was at liberty to do what he liked when collecting _jaziya_. The man was not even allowed to go home and fetch the money, but was at once beaten until it was given. About 1865 a _farrāsh_ collecting this tax tied a man to a dog, and gave a blow to each in turn. About 1891 a _mujtahid_ caught a Zoroastrian merchant wearing white stockings in one of the public squares of the town. He ordered the man to be beaten and the stockings taken off. About 1860 a man of seventy went to the bazaars in white trousers of rough canvas. They hit him about a good deal, took off his trousers, and sent him home with them under his arm. Sometimes Parsis would be made to stand on one leg in a _mujtahid’s_ house until they consented to pay a considerable sum of money. Occasionally, however, the childish mockery that pervaded the persecuting ordinances enabled the Zoroastrians to evade the disabilities proposed. For instance, as the Jews had to wear a patch on the _qaba_, or coat, the _mujtahids_ in about 1880 tried to make the Parsis wear an obvious patch on the shirt. Muhammad Hasan Khan was then Governor, and Mulla Bahrām of Khurramshār, a Parsi, asked him to arrange that his people should have three days’ respite to get the patches ready. During these three days the Parsi women set to work, and made a neat embroidered border round the neck and opening of the shirt. This the Parsis exhibited as the required patch; and as it was very obvious, and was certainly an insertion, there was really nothing more to be said. In Yezd a small score like this counts for more than does a firman of the Shah. In the reign of the late Shah Nāsiru’d Dīn, Mānukjī Limjī, a British Parsi from India, was for a long while in Tehran as Parsi representative. Almost all the Parsi disabilities were withdrawn, the _jaziya_, the clothes restrictions, the riding restrictions, and those with regard to houses, but the law of inheritance was not altered, according to which a Parsi who has become a Mussulman takes precedence of his Zoroastrian brothers and sisters. The _jaziya_ was actually remitted, and also some of the restrictions as to houses, but the rest of the firman was a dead letter. In 1898 the present Shah, Muzaffaru’d Dīn, gave a firman to Dīnyār, the present _Qalāntar_ of the Parsi _Anjuman_, or Committee, revoking all the remaining Parsi disabilities, and also declaring it unlawful to use fraud or deception in making conversions of Parsis to Islam. This firman does not appear to have had any effect at all.