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Related to Anis al-Dawlah's properties in Varamin, 1900 and 1914
Complaint by Sayyid Muhsin, the tenant farmer of ‘Ali Abad village, located in Bihnam Sukhtah in Varamin, that despite paying taxes the water irrigation to the property has been stopped and his cotton farms are drying out, so he asks for compensation; a copy of a decree, dated 1900 or 1901, received by the Ministry of Finance on November 15, 1914, probably by Muzaffar al-Din Shah to Ghulam Riza Khan Asif al-Dawlah, ordering the uninterrupted irrigation of ‘Ali Abad village from Jajrud river
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Letter from Mahd-i ‘Ulya to Nasir al-Din Shah, 1863 or 1864
When the late Muhammad Shah's sisters visited Nasir al-Din Shah, Sahib Khanum asked Mahd-i ‘Ulya, in the presence of Anis al-Dawlah, to convey her plea to Nasir al-Din Shah. She claimed that her share of Punak property, now seized by Asif al-Dawlah and his sons, was her wedding gift from Zill al-Sultan. She was deprived of the property interest that she relied on for her family expenses. The houses in the property were destroyed and she was not given any compensation, which even Mirza Taqi Khan had stated was her right. Also, she only received two hundred tumans from the five hundred tumans...