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ed ft raclic.il change in his offico establishment, procured the appointment
of Nawah Ahmad Aga, a Mussulman gentleman, to the post of Native Agont.
"Although, says Colonel Nixon, nothing was said this appointment scorns to have
caused great dissatisfaction to the English clerks who have enriched themselves enormously
• Paragraph 8 of bia letter No. 30, datod lull by having kept all matters in Ihcir oion handt for
October 1870. so many years, viz., since 1844.”*
205. Colonel Nixon’s recommendation as to how Mr. Thaddous and his
brothers should bo doalt with will bo mentioned further on With regard to
Kaja Fyzoollah’s alleged loss ho observed that it was “ porplexing as it is
inexplicable,” see paragraph 3 of his judgment, but, at the commencement of
his finding, ho says :—
"From the ovidcnco it is quite cloar to me that Kaja Fyzoolah has eilhor made away
with the property handed over to him, * * o * or e|se i,aB carelessly
lost it, or sont it secretly to his master.”
266. And with regard to the request of Nawah Ahmed Aga that Fyzoolah
should bo punished, for bringing a false charge, Colonel Nixon wrote—
" Under tho rulcsf of the Consular Court, paragraph 300, there is no punishment award­
ed for libel. If lie (tho Nawab) wishes for
fThcao rnlei aro rocorded ai Political, March 1874,
No. 76. redreis, he will therefore havo to prosecute Kaja
Fyzoolah in India.”
267. The second charge against the Armenians was not so well supported
as the first; in fact it rested on Colonel Nixon’s suspicions and observations, and
not on actual evidence. “ On my arrival here,” he wrote—
"I had a feeling that all the quarrels between tho British Agent and Turkish officials
had been fomented and aggravated by the Armenian office people, their great wealth enabling
them to do what ot hers could not undertake with impunity. Tueir object being also to
foment discord to district attention from their own acts.”
268. Colonel Nixon accordingly watched the proceedings of the Armenians
narrowly, but as, to uso his own words, they “ are oornoinel and very astute
and cunning,” lie seems to have failed to procure any evidence confirmatory
of tueir having acted in the manner stated.
The third and last charge, entrapping and filching pilgirms, rested upon
evidence taken in tho Political Agent’s Court.
269. During an absence of Colonel Nixon to Bussorah, two ladies of Sir
8alar Jung’s household, named Nujjoom-ool-nissa Begum and Rumzanee
Begum, arrived at Baghdad, and iu accordance with advice they had received
from a merchant in Bombay, named Iladji Ali, sent for the Agency Moonshee
to whom they made over a lioondee for Rupees 4,000 and a note for Rupees
1.000 with a request that ho would get them cashed and then remit the money
to them at Kerbulla. The ladies after making several applications to the
: Tb«. wt. .cat to them in three instrtmcuu of Moonshee succeeded in getting Kupees
Rupee* 1.000, Bupoc. 7uo. »nd Kupex 3j0. 2,000,$ but experiencing further difficul­
ties in getting a settlement they returned to Baghdad and made a personal
demand for the money. The Moonshee took them to Mr. Johanues Thaddeus
who (1) informod the ladies in explanation of his interference in the matter
that the hoondco could not have been cashed without his agency ; (2) offered
them Rupees 1,700 in liquidation (in so far as he was concerned) of the Rupees
2.000 still due on the hoondee; and (3) referred them to the Moonshee for the
balance of Rupees 300, and also for the amount of the one thousand rupee
Dote. The ladies declined to take the Rupees 1,700, and tho money not even
then being forthcoming threatened to bring the matter into Court, on which
the Head Clerk begged them not to
ot^prSud^p^lw!'^00* °f ‘^e *>s®c* 29 to si mention his name and promised to pay !
up §
270. The ladies "not fearing the office people were brave enough ”|| to
H p*MKropii o of Coioud Nuon'* loiter No. 30, complain to Colonel Nixon and eventunllv
ted i4tu October 1870. the cas0 come into Court, when both
ladies declared that tho olorka had got rich and obtained lands by robbing
, s.. tb.ir deposition*. pilgrim, from India; they also threaten0-
ed to complain to His Excellency the
Viceroy.^
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