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Petition to Majlis regarding wage cuts
Petition by twenty members of the arsenal in Kirmanshahan to the Majlis regarding the cut in their wages and the harm this has caused them as they are unable to provide for their families with few days left to the new year.
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Mufarrah al-Saltanah's petitions, 1923-1931
Mufarrah al-Saltanah's petitions against Qasim Khan Sardar Humayun: the first petition dates to 16 Jan 1923, in which Mufarrah al-Saltanah, mother of the Sardar Rashid's children, gives 1500 tumans as a lawyer's fee to Sayyid Husayn Aqa Hujjat al-Islamzadah as a lawyer's fee if she receives 12000 tumans from Sardar Humayun. The second petition, written on 24 Feb 1923, again considers Sardar Humayun's debt to Sardar Rashid's inheritors. In the third petition, addressed to the Ministry of Justice on 2 March 1931, Mufarrah al-Saltanah complains that Sardar Humayun has not paid his debt of...
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Petition to Nuzhat al-Dawlah
Petition by ‘Abd Allah Qazzaq (cossack), resident of Sifidan village, to Nuzhat al-Dawlah regarding the cheating and bribery by Hasan Sultan over the grain. At the end, he requests a thirty-tuman loan from Nuzhat al-Dawlah.
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Copy of Fatimah Baygum's petition to Ayatollah Mirza Muhammad Husayn al-Najafi, 1926
Copy of a complaint petition from Fatimah Baygum to Ayatollah Mirza Muhammad Husayn al-Najafi regarding her brutal treatment at the hands of her husband, Haj Mirza Muhammad Sahib Anjavi. Fatimah Baygum claims that her husband has beaten her and thrown her and their children out of their house. She has sent the children to ask their father for permission to go back, but he refused every time. She next sent some acquaintances to her husband, but he never let her or the children return home. She finally sent this petition to Ayatollah Mirza Muhammad Husayn al-Najafi, requesting that he would...
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‘Abd al-Rahman's petition, 1928 or 1929
Petition by ‘Abd al-Rahman Dihlavi (from Delhi) to the Majlis, stating that when he filed a claim against Murtaza Khan Shuja‘ Lashkar Ardalan for what he owed him, his petitions remained unanswered. But, someone else's claim against the writer, concerning a debt much smaller than Murtaza Khan's, has been immediately acted upon by sending agents to the writer's house, disturbing his pregnant wife with their search. Impacted by the incident, his wife has been in bed for two months.
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Property documents of Khanum Muhtaram Mahmud-zadah Sabit, 1925 to 1935
Including two letters, two statements, one settlement, and one letter written by Khanum Muhtaram's lawyer
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