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Petition to Nuzhat al-Dawlah
Addressing various issues, including counting the population of Amir Zakariya village, people's dire need for financial help, and giving wheat and barley to the gardener, the steward, and other workers as a stipend.
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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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Letter from a female servant of a shrine
Letter from a woman who is the servant of a shrine, regarding the termination of her salary
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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 by Mulla Ibrahim's wife
Petition by the wife of Mulla Ibrahim, son of Mulla Rustam the watchmaker, whom the late shah converted to Islam, mentioning that she and her children have not received any salaries for some time.
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Correspondence regarding Tupuli Khanum's request, 1929
Includes Tupuli Khanum's petition to the Majlis demanding her husband, Lutf Allah, be exempt from military service. Lutf Allah, son of Miruz, is the sole breadwinner for their family of three children. There is also a Majlis summary report regarding the petition, and a letter from the Majlis to the Ministry of War requesting their attention.
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Correspondence related to Shawkat Khanum's petition, 1930
Includes a petition by Shawkat Khanum, wife of Muhammad Khan Samadi, to the Majlis, explaining that after the branch of the Ministry of Justice in Kurdistan was closed down, her husband was unemployed for a while and then started working at the Qum branch of the Ministry. Shawkat Khanum and her children are in despair and demand Muhammad Khan's return to his previous job in Kurdistan; a Majlis summary that notes she also demands her husband's seven months delinquent wage; and a letter from the Majlis to the Ministry of Justice asking for their attention.
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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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‘Izz al-Saltanah's petition, 1901
Petition by ‘Izz al-Saltanah to the Ministry of Finance, referring to a note issued by Sardar Afkham when he was the governor of Rasht, which included payments of two thousand and seven hundred tumans to ‘Izz al-Saltanah, ‘Aziz al-Saltanah, and Fatimah Sultan Khanum and Mahbub al-Saltanah (two of Nasir al-Din Shah's wives); she describes the inconvenience they had endured after the execution of Sardar Afkham, receiving another bill from Mirza Fath Allah Khan, which they could not convert to cash, and the eventual loss of the note; ‘Izz al-Saltanah is asking for the note to be reissued.