text:  Formerly the domains belonging to the mosques in each pashalik were let on annual leases (as the public revenues are still farmed) to _multezim_ or contractors generally the pashas of the provinces: but the system of subletting and dilapidation to which this course of short leases gave rise was so ruinous to the agricultural population and the property of the wakoofs that a thorough reform was introduced in the reign of Abdoul-Hamid the father of Mahmood II