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Ahmad Shah's decree to Nayyir ‘Uzma, 1916
A decree issued by Ahmad Shah Qajar granting title of "Nayyir ‘Uzma" to Khanum Hajib, daughter of Fasl Bahar Khanum (Iran al-Dawlah) and Mustafa Quli Khan Hajib al-Dawlah
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Letter about visiting the Crown Prince in Tabriz
The writer talks about his mission to Tabriz and visit to the Crown Prince [Muzaffar al-Din Mirza], how this mission had failed and the Crown Prince had refused to see him, saying that he did not need a tutor. He describes the Crown Prince's outrage and adds that Shukuh al-Saltanah knew all along that this mission was doomed to fail. He then gives an account of how he had paid his debts to the butcher, the grocer, and the draper before leaving Tabriz as well as his meeting with Zill al-Sultan. He also mentions Shukuh al-Saltanah's complaint and disappointment about how the Crown Prince did...
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Farman Farma's decree to Ibrahim Khan, 1879
Farman Farma's decree addressed to Ibrahim Khan Sartip [brigadier], who ruled Baluchistan, Bam, and Narmashir, prohibiting the sale of the peasants as female and male slaves
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Muhammad Shah's decree about Mulla Ismaʻil's pension, 1840
Copy of [Muhammad Shah's] decree determining that twelve tumans of Isfahan's tax revenue be paid to Mulla Ismaʻil, son of Mulla Abu al-Hasan Barfurush, and his other inheritors for subsistence. Muʻtamad al-Dawlah was assigned to take the pension annually from Isfahan's tax revenue. The Shah's officers were also assigned to cancel the same amount from Mazandaran's tax revenue, because after Mulla Abu al-Hasan's death, Sayyid Husayn Saravi had assumed no inheritors for Mulla Abu al-Hasan, so he revoked the pension of Isfahan and instead added it to Mazandaran's tax revenue for himself.