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Marriage contract of Farkhundah Khanum and Muhammad Husayn, 1926
Marriage contract of Farkhundah Khanum [Namazi], the daughter of Haj Muhammad Husayn [Namazi] the merchant, and Aqa Muhammad Husayn [Arvand] the merchant, the son of Haji Muhammad Taqi the merchant from Bushihr. The mahr is thirty tumans for a Qur’an, one thousand tumans including five hundred tumans cash and one hundred twenty tumans for fifteen misqal of pearl, one man [unit of weight] of raw green silk from Rasht, twenty mans of salt, and three-sixths of a house, which remains the groom's debt.
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Settlement between Mah Sultan and Aqa Mirza Kuchak, 1928
Hajiyah Bibi [Khayr al-Nisa’ Baygum Mah Sultan], the wife of the late Haj ‘Abd al-Husayn Sahib Amin al-Tujjar, has transferred all of her belongings to Aqa Mirza Kuchak, the son of her daughter, a descendent of the late Muhammad Sahib Amin al-Tujjar, in exchange for one-fourth of a rupee, with two conditions: first, that Hajiyah Bibi retains the right to spend these belongings for the next twenty lunar years; second, that after Hajiyah Bibi's death, Aqa Mirza Kuchak spend five hundred rupees for her funeral and charity in addition to hiring someone to fast and pray on her behalf.