THE CENTRAL BOARDS There were five Boards at the Centre:
1. Diwanu’1-Jund, The military board.
2. Diwanu’I Kharaj, The board of finance.
3. Diwanu’r-Rus’il, The board of correspondence. k
4. Diwanu’l-Khatam, The board of signet.
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5. Diwanu’l-Barid,
1. Diwanu’I-Jund It was the same great Diwan established by Umar I (Rad.A) which assigned annuities to all Arabs and to the Muslim soldiers of other nationalities. The form in which Umar (Rad.A) had left it underwent much change in the hands of the Umayyads. On the one hand, the Government meddled with the register of the second Caliph as it liked, and, on the other, the recipients began to regard the pension as a subsistence allowance rather than as a salary given for military service. ”Hisham (living): no one got it, not even an Umayyad prince, who had not either seen service in the war himself or sent a substitute. His own share he gave to his Mawla, Yaqut, who had to take the field in his stead.”
