Settlement between Shahzadah Khanum, Fath‘ali Khan's mother, with Khvajah Nazar, the Christian merchant, regarding the villages of Bilvirdi and Yangajah in the Bidustan region and all their attached land and water creeks, which will belong to Shahzadah Khanum in exchange for three thousand tumans. According to the note on verso, the contract was registered at the Embassy office in Tabriz and was written by Mirza Muhsin Amin Shuraka’, the chronicler, on August 11, 1854.
The Catholics of Kurdistan claim that Taraziyah Khanum, daughter of Khvajah Bavi Masihi (Christian), endowed all her belongings to the Catholic Church of Kurdistan before her passing. This is confirmed by Khalifah Yusuf, the head of Chaldean Catholics of Tehran, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. However, Taraziyah Khanum's husband claims that she transferred her belongings to him in the presence of witnesses. A settlement is made to resolve the dispute, according to which five thousand tumans from her inheritance is paid to the church and the rest of her belongings go to her husband....
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