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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
The writer mentions the addressee's workers stealing their mother's farm products and requests an investigation.
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Petition on behalf of Fatimah, 1926
Petition to Aqa-yi Mujtahid about the dispute between Karbala’iyah Fatimah Khanum (a widow) and Haji Mir Aqa Aghaj-chi from Tabriz about a co-owned property asking the addressee to summon Mir Aqa and have him resolve the issue by either buying her share with a fair price, selling his own share, or agreeing to divide the property
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Khanum Balqays' petition, 1931
Petition by Khanum Balqays against Mirza Ibrahim, known as Aqa Buzurg Taryaki [opium consumer], who has not paid the rent for a piece of land for four years. The petition asks the court to inform Mirza Ibrahim of the amount of money he owes to the petitioner.
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Petition to summon wife and get back possessions, 1931
Petition written by Biman‘ali Najjar [the carpenter] to Fars Justice Department requesting to summon his wife, Khanum Nubar, to retrieve his possessions from her, which she took forty days ago, and then left the house without her husband's permission and went to ‘Ali Akbar Najjar's house.
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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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Regarding the affair of Khanum Taj and Sayyid Karim, 1925
In a letter to Hujjat al-Islam Mirza Sadiq Aqa, the writer describes how Sayyid Karim has faked the divorce of Khanum Taj, daughter of Riza Khan Shuja‘ Lashkar and wife of Mirza Habib Allah Muntakhib Daftar, and they have fled from Amirabad village to Tabriz. After Mirza Habib Allah's complaint, Sayyid Karim bribed two Mullas and forced Mirza Habib Allah to divorce his wife in exchange for two villages, owned by Khanum Taj. Subsequently, it becomes clear that the two villages had already been sold to someone else and that Khanum Taj was four months pregnant prior to the divorce. Mirza Habib...
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Letter asking for a lost rental lease, 1929
Letter written by Khanum Muhtaram to Sayyid Ahmad Pish-namaz [the prayer leader] asking him to write down the text of a lost rental lease that he had drafted four years ago. The lease was about renting Khilak lands to Mashhadi ‘Ali Akbar Dihkurah. On the margin, Sayyid Ahmad has written the rental lease.
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Letters from Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam to Munshi Bashi
Letters include the following: Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam writes to Mirza Hasan Khan Munshi Bashi about a trip to Tunikabun; about the division of a shipment of lettuce among family members; about the government's seizure of the properties of Qamar Khanum, daughter of Sa‘d al-Saltanah; Mirza Hasan instructs Munshi Bashi to give 700 tumans to Rafʻat al-Saltanah Mulkara, wife of his deceased father, Mirza Masʻud Shaykh al-Islam, to settle a family inheritance dispute; about the state of affairs since the constitutional revolution, and the efforts of his wife, Rukhsarah Khanum, to get him to...
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Complaint by ‘Ali Ashraf and Ya‘qub's wife, 1930
A petition by ‘Ali Ashraf and the wife of Ya‘qub from Shukuh Abad, on the actions of Karimi, the steward in Shukuh Abad, claiming that he has colluded with the village chief to plunder the authors' properties and expel them from the village; and a letter from the Majlis to ‘Ali Ashraf and Ya‘qub's wife notifying them of sending their petition to the corresponding court
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