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Regarding ‘Azra Khanum's salary, 1910
‘Azra Khanum, the thirty-two year old daughter of the late Mirza Mahmud Afshar and wife of ‘Abd al-Husayn Khan Ilbaygi of the Afshar tribe, from Asad Abad of Hamadan and resident of Savujbulagh, and represented by Mirza Muhammad Khan, receives her inherited salary of eight kharvar and eighty mans (kharvar and man are units of weight) of barley, which belonged to her since 1885 or 1886. Documents include an invoice with a note on verso regarding Nasir al-Din Shah's decree in 1885 or 1886 about ‘Azra Khanum's right to this salary as well as ‘Azra Khanum's power of attorney to Mirza Muhammad...
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Correspondence of Malakah Iran and Zahir al-Sultan with the Ministry of Finance, 1916 to 1918
Correspondence amongst Malakah Iran (Furugh al-Dawlah), the Treasury, and the Ministry of Finance regarding the approval of the Cabinet to pay five thousand tumans to Malakah Iran to compensate for damages to her house when it was bombarded along with the Majlis during the Constitutional Revolution, and requesting the remaining two thousand and five hundred tumans. After Malakah Iran's death, her son, Muhammad Nasir Zahir al-Sultan, asks the Ministry of Finance to account for the remaining money as part of his taxes of seventy-six kharvars (unit of weight) of barley from Mast Khuban village...