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Regarding Zahra Khanum and Hajar Khanum's salaries, 1910
Documents include letters of salary confirmation for the wife and daughter of Mirza Ghulamhusayn who was murdered: Zahra Khanum (daughter of Mirza ‘Ali from Mirza Musa's family) and Hajar Khanum (wife of Haji Mirza Mahmud); and their identity verification and salary forms
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Request of Bahadur al-Saltanah's wife, 1922 or 1923
Documents include the following: letter from the Ministry of Finance to the Majlis, stating that Bahadur al-Saltanah's salary was cut because of his theft from the customhouse of Saqqiz and requesting that the Prime Minister accept the request of Bahadur al-Saltanah's wife and add her name to the list of stipendiaries if he accepts the request; letter from Bahadur al-Saltanah's wife, in which she writes that due to her husband's salary being cut off, she and her two sons, who are five and nine years old, are having financial difficulties because payments of stipend that they were supposed...
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Regarding Qamar Sultan Khanum and ‘Aliyah Khanum's salaries, 1910
Documents include letter of salary confirmation for the inheritors of Haji Sayyid Aqa who was killed during the destruction of the Majlis, Qamar Sultan Khanum (his wife and Shaykh Mahmud's daughter) and ‘Aliyah Khanum (his daughter); their power of attorney to Mirza Riza Khan from Gurgan to represent and receive their salaries; and Qamar Sultan Khanum's identity verification and salary form
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Regarding Kawkab Khanum and Sughra Khanum's salaries, 1910
Documents include letters of salary confirmation for Kawkab Khanum and Sughra Khanum (daughters of Mirza Yusuf and sisters of the late Muhammad); their power of attorney (along with their brothers, Muhammad Naqi and ‘Ali) to Mirza Husayn Hafiz al-Sihhah to represent and receive their salaries; and Kawkab Khanum and Sughra Khanum's identity verification and salary forms
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Regarding Nargis Khatun and Fatimah Khatun's salaries, 1910
Documents include letter of salary confirmation for Nargis Khatun and Fatimah Khatun, wife and daughter of Mashhadi Taqi who was killed; and Fatimah Khatun's identity verification and salary form
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Shaykh Muhammad Hasan's petition, 1915
Petition by Shaykh Muhammad Hasan, the representative from Garus, to the Majlis regarding the plunders and crimes committed by Salar al-Dawlah and others during the Majlis closure. The writer describes how Mirza, son of Bahram Khalifah from Gulbagh, attacked the village of Chishmah Kazim and put his father's building on fire, where people, including women, had taken shelter, and raped the women. While Mirza was arrested and taken to a Kurdistan court by Sardar Muhay, he was not punished and continues his crimes.
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Petitions and requests submitted to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam and Munshi Bashi
Petitions and requests, including the following: one to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam petitioning for assistance in recovering Fatimah Sultan Khanum's share of her father's inheritance. Fatimah Sultan Khanum was the daughter of Haj Muhammad Baqir, the sister of Yumn al-Saltanah, and the wife of Asad Allah Sarhang. Another is a petition to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islami about the division of inheritance and the reply; another is a petition to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam from the mother of a murdered man; in another, an unidentified woman asks Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam to intervene in an...
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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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Correspondence regarding Khadijah Khanum's claim over her husband's death, 1921 to 1923
Regarding the death of Muhammad Taqi Bayg, hostler of the French Embassy, who was killed in an accident by a car that belonged to Lynch Company. Documents include Khadijah Khanum's custody of her daughter Kubra, after her husband Muhammad Taqi Bayg's death; copies of their identification certificates; Khadijah Khanum's power of attorney to Mirza Ahmad Khan Shari‘at-zadah to file a claim for her husband's diya (financial compensation); correspondence among the British Consulate, Sardar Ashja‘ (the Governor of Isfahan), the Ministry of Interior, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding...
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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.