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British influence and foreign interests, 1904-1906

•The pQftls. were Yajucd aqd returned to the custody of Ramph'i bu
ShciHji took, money m acjvnncQ f/op), Ramoh ffts. 10,000} as h\s share of i
" khiama" (judicial fee or succession duty)' before*the pearls wcrc'sol^ and. the
ease decided.
.Syed KbaUf had olhor valuables mortgaged to the Banians thrpugh Syed
Najir, for Rs.. 27,000. qncj also other pearls mortgage^ to Ali Din Nasir for
1,090-.
After somo timo Sheikh Isa Din Ali issued orders that thq 0330 bo 4ccj.4$d
by an Ijlas compQsod of'the, following persons '•nr
1. Muqbil AlDukhcr.
а. Abtjql Ra^n^n Rip I dan.
3. Vishan Das, Banian.
4. Syed Ulwi Din Syed Jawwad.
5. |daji Hasan Pin Salman.
б. Mohammad Pin Abdul Wahab,
7. Ramoli.
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8. One representative fr9.n1 the house of Ganga Ram.
The order was placed in the hands of Muqbil. The above sat as Judgei
and decided that one of tho Banians should be deputed to take action regard­
ing all the valuables of the deceased, mortgaged or otherwise,' apd that al) ttyo
valuables be collected together, and sold, and all ljabjlities of thp deceased to be
paid therefrom. Ramoh, Banian, offered to q'cpomc responsible, and he col­
lected together all the valuables mortgaged to the Banians and all others.
These were then ppt to auction, and l heard that they fetched a. price of
Rs. 1,05,000. All the purchasers except Mohammad Bin Abdul Wahab, who
purchased the greater portion of the pearls, paid for their purchases there and
then, but this man said he had no money just then, and he would pay and take
over hjs $hare of the pearls a few days later. His share was therefore placed in
the charge of Ramoh for the time being, with the explicit understanding that
the pearls could be handed over to Mohammad Bin Abdul Wahab only on tho
occasion of his paying up the value of his purchases. The Judges then paid tQ
the following the sums against their names, in discharge of the liabilities of my
husband :—
Rs.
1. Banians and Ali Bin Nasir in liquidation of mortgages ... a8,oo<*
a. Syed Sadiq • 9 4 ... 10,000
3. Ramoh, In return for the sum he advanced to Sheikh Isa as
" khidma" • •• *.. 10,000

Total «. 48,000

Thus the balance left was Ml ... 57,000
Syed Khalaf had also a demand of Rs. 4,000 upon his cousin, Syed
Nasir, for whom he paid this sum to the Banians. Syod Nasir had mortgaged
certain ornaments to Banians for Rs. 4,000 and it wfs on this account that my
husband, the late Syed Khalaf, paid Rs. 4,000 to the Banians and himself got
possession of Syed Nasir’s ornaments. Later on my husband represented to
oyed Nasir that the value of the ornaments mortgaged did OQt cpmo up to
Rs. 4,000 (it is only 3,000) so he should offqr gqmcthing q|se .^o maljc up the
deficiency. Syed Nasir gave over a house for this purpose. To depide this
matter, Muqbil And his colleague judges broached tr\e subject to Syed * Nasty. .
But Syed Nasir said that against this, nc had a demand of greater value on tHe
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