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Regarding Nim Taj ‘Iffat al-Muluk's salary, 1910
Documents include a letter of salary confirmation for Nim Taj Khanum ‘Iffat al-Muluk, daughter of Muhammad Hasan Mirza Mu‘tazid al-Dawlah from the family of ‘Abbas Mirza Nayib al-Saltanah; ‘Iffat al-Muluk's power of attorney to her brother, Muhammad Husayn Mirza Zahir al-Sultan, to represent and receive her salary; and her identity verification and salary form
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Regarding Sakinah Khanum's salary, 1910
Documents include letter of salary confirmation for Sakinah Khanum, daughter of Mirza ‘Ali Khan Mu‘azzaz al-Sultan and wife of Muhib‘ali Khan; her power of attorney to her brother, Mirza Husayn Khan, to represent and receive her salary; and her identity verification and salary form
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Regarding Ma‘sumah Khanum's salary, 1910
Documents include letter of salary confirmation for Ma‘sumah Khanum Jamil al-Saltanah, daughter of Mahmud Mirza (from Asad Allah Mirza's family); her power of attorney to her husband, Sulayman Mirza Khabir Humayun, to represent and receive her salary; and her identity verification and salary form
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Complaint by people of Saqqiz, 1915
Includes two petitions by the people of Saqqiz to the Majlis regarding the troubles caused by the new government, for instance housing the government riders in the peasants' houses and taking their household furnishings and never returning them, the evacuation of a residential place where about forty people, including women and children, lived, and sending agents to the peasant houses when the men are at work and the women are alone at home; along with a letter of inquiry from the Majlis to the Ministry of Interior regarding these claims.
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Regarding displacement of Targavir village people, 1907
A telegram from Imamquli in Urumiyah to Atabak A‘zam in Tehran regarding the pillage of Mavanah and Targavir villages by the Ottoman nomads, and the killing of eighteen men and sixty-six women and children. Around three thousand people, mostly Christians, from the neighboring villages, have fled to Urumiyah and are in need of food and clothing; the writer has been collecting aid from the elite and merchants of Urumiyah and is asking for the government's assistance, suggesting that any aid should be delivered via the Christian clergy who will distribute it among their people.
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Complaint against Husayn Ra’uf Bayg and the Ottoman camp, 1915
Includes a petition to the Majlis regarding the harassment by Husayn Ra’uf Bayg and the Ottoman army in Karand, ruining and pillaging villages, the arrest and execution of the people of the Kalhur, Sanjabi, and Guran clans, and the capture of fifty women from the families residing in the vicinity of the Karand caravansary and accusing them of theft. Also includes a petition to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding Ra’uf Bayg and Ottomans harassing people who live near the borders and the attack by Isma‘il Haqi Bayg on the Sanjabi clan, ruining and setting fire to the village of Hajim...
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Regarding complaints by the Christians of Azarbayjan, 1910
Correspondence among the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, their office in Urumiyah, a representative of the Christian population in Azarbayjan, and the Ottoman Embassy, regarding the complaints by the Christians against the nomadic Kurds who plunder their villages and abduct Christian girls, as well as the complaint by the French and American embassies in support of the Christians.
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Abduction of Christian girls by Kurds, 1910
Includes correspondence among the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its office in Urumiyah, the Ministry of Interior, the Iranian Embassy, and the Ottoman Embassy, regarding the abduction of three Christian girls by Kurds in the villages in the vicinity of Urumiyah. First, regarding Katrin, who was abducted by Qasim and his group, and was taken to Haydarlu village, includes the account of freeing the girl and her testimony on being taken by force; and the consequent revenge of the Kurds against the people of Haydarlu who helped in the girl's rescue and injuring Khalil Bayg and killing his...