Two _Defterdars_, or treasurers, or rather, as we would say, governors of the revenues. One of these has the receipt and the care of those revenues which come from a third of Greece, or from that part which is toward the Danube, and besides, from Asia, from Syria, and from Egypt, with feudal income of ten thousand ducats a year, although with the perquisites he gets twice as much. The other has the care of the other two-thirds of Greece: but when the Signor takes the field this man remains in Constantinople as his vicar and lieutenant; and he has six thousand ducats of feudal income, but gets three times as much; and their position is of great dignity. They have under them fifty clerks with many helpers: these keep the accounts of the _Khazineh_, or treasury of the Signor; and these clerks are appointed by the Signor with pay of fifteen to fifty aspers per day each. The _Defterdars_ have, the first a thousand slaves and the second five hundred, and the clerks from two to twenty slaves each.[748] Two _Rusnamehjis_, chief clerks, who receive the money and disburse it as needed, with twenty-five companions besides themselves. The two have forty aspers each, and the twenty-five have eight to ten aspers a day. Two _Veznedars_, or weighers of aspers and ducats, with twenty-five to thirty aspers each. Six _Sarrafs_, or bankers, who know gold and silver [coins], and they have ten to fifteen aspers each. One _Nishanji-bashi_, who signs the ordinances and public writings with the monogram of the Signor. His position is like that of grand chancellor and is of great repute. He sits at the Porte below the _Beylerbeys_. He has eight thousand ducats of feudal income, and travels in great honor with more than three hundred slaves. An outside _Khazinehdar-bashi_, or household treasurer, with ten _Khazinehdars_ under him. He has fifty aspers, and they ten to fifteen per day. A _Defter-emini_, who has charge of the feudal grants: he keeps the register of those who receive feudal grants. He has forty aspers a day, and under him are ten clerks with ten to fifteen aspers per day each. Eighty _Muteferrika_, or lancers of the body-guard[749] of the Signor, these always carry lances when he takes the field; they recognize no other head than the Signor himself. And when by artifice or merit they acquire favor, they are made _Aghas_, or generals. The least has ten, the greatest eighty, aspers per day.