The marriage contract of Sughra Khanum, the daughter of Suhrab Khan, and Aqa Fazl Allah, the son of Aqa Mirza Habib Allah Shams al-Shariʻah on 21 May 1887. The mahr includes a Qurʼan, 25 tumans, 10 acres of a river, 5 acres of a land in Gulpaygan, 4 acres in a sahara, 2 acres of a garden, and one sixth of a house. In 1921, Fazl Allah settled all of his properties with Hajiyah Bibi Khanum. When Bibi Khanum abrogated this transaction due to her Hajj pilgrimage, Fazl Allah settles for four and a half-sixth of his building with Bibi Hajiyah.
Includes correspondence among the Ministries of Justice, Interior, Finance, and the Treasury Department regarding an order by the Justice Ministry to deduct one-fourth of Ghulamriza Khan Mukhbir al-Mamalik (Mukhbir al-Dawlah)'s monthly salary to pay toward his debt of two thousand four hundred sixty tumans to Farkhundah Khanum Fakhr al-Muluk; also an objection letter by Mukhbir al-Dawlah to the Treasury Department claiming the full payment of his debt to Farkhundah Khanum
Documents include letters of salary confirmation for the daughters of Mirza Muhammad Khan Luqman al-Dawlah (from Mirza ‘Alinaqi Hakim Bashi's family), Sahib Sultan Khanum, Muhtaram Khanum, and Zarrin Taj Khanum; and his two wives, Sarah Baygum, known as Hajiyah Khanum (daughter of Haji Husayn from Qa’im Maqam's family), and Khvurshid Khanum (daughter of Aqa Mir Taqi from Haji Mirza Muhammad Bazzaz (draper) family); and their identity verification and salary forms. Luqman al-Dawlah's salary initially had only been assigned to his son and grandson, Ghulam Husayn Khan and Mirza ‘Ali Khan, but...
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