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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 the petition of Safar and Ruqiyah against the wife of Lutf ʻAli Khan, the officer of the army
Safar and Ruqaiyyah write that their twelve year old daughter was killed by the wife of Lutf ʻAli Khan, the officer of army, the master of the house in which they worked as domestic servants. The girl was alive for a week and doctors could witness that she died because of being beaten by Lutf ʻAli Khan's wife. Lutf ʻAli Khan confessed that his wife beat the girl, but no one was willing to pursue the case, so Safar and Ruqaiyyah asked the Majlis to investigate the case and help them in achieving justice for the poor girl.
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Regarding Balqays Khanum's petition
Correspondence about Balqays Khanum's petition regarding her nephew, Muhammad. Balqays writes that Muhammad was falsely accused of murder. Therefore, she sought help to save him.
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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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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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Letter from Nimtaj to Iran-i naw, 1911
Letter from Nimtaj regarding the murder of her husband, Lutf‘ali Mu’addab al-Sultan
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Photographs of women circulating in public, 1910
Regarding family photographs of women that were circulating after the collapse of the Majlis and looting of some houses. Police warn the photography studios that have copied such negatives and prints.
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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 wife's escape, 1928
Includes a petition by ‘Abd Allah Surkh from Kurdistan to the Majlis regarding Nayib Hasan Khan who has taken Shirin, the writer's wife, to his house along with four hundred tumans and some household furnishings. ‘Abd Allah's complaints have been in vain and he does not trust the local Sunni judge, claiming that he once married off a woman to a dervish in exchange for three hundred tumans. There is also a letter from the Majlis to ‘Abd Allah Surkh instructing him to take his case to the Ministry of Justice.
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Complaint about wife's abduction, 1911
Panus Ibn Sulayman Kaldani (Chaldean) from Tabriz claims that Monsieur Gausine, a Belgian national who manages the customs department in Azarbayjan, has abducted the writer's wife