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31. Shaikh Mazkoor was reinstated as Governor of Kongoon on payment of
loo.ooo krans. He paid up a long standing claim for indemnity due to some
Indian subjects who were wrecked on his coast.
32. In May 1878 Shaikh Mazkoor, in pursuance with a feud against
Abdulla-bin-Mahomcd, Chief of Beni Hamad of Kalat, and joined by Shaikh
Mahomed Hassan, Chief of Cliarek, and Hamad-bin-Isinail, Chief of the Abeydil
of Checroo, attacked and plundered the village of Marbakh, killing seventeen
men. The Kowwan-ul-Mulk, Governor of Lar, despatched a force of 200
Sirbaz and 700 irregulars under Aga Fath-Ali Khan of Gerras with one gun
against Shaikh Mazkoor in July, but the force was surprised and defeated by
Shaikh Mazkoor and his followers. After a desultory warfare Shaikh Mazkoor
was seized by the Persian forces in December 1879 and was afterwards executed
in March 1883.
The Shaikh Hassan-bin-Mazkoor, his son, fled to Bahrain. In April 1883 he
landed at Tahri and caused considerable
Gulf Administration Report for 18S3 84.
disturbances in the Gillahdar and adjacent
districts, and Fath-Ali Khan Gerrasbee, Governor of Lar, was ordered to act
against him. Some Persian infantry and a body of Baharloo Irregular Cavalry
accordingly proceeded to those districts. Hassan bin Mazkoor, however, fled
and escaped. Subsequently, further disturbances occurred in Gillahdar and
Gaobandee from the people refusing to receive a new Governor, named Naib
Ibrahim Khan, one Ahmed-bin-Saif being the ringleader.
33. Naib Ibrahim having proceeded to Jam with a force of sowars and
infantry to suppress a revolt there, serious resistance was made by the people
of Jam, and in the affray several of the Baharloo sowars were killed. On this
the Persian infantry and the sowars plundered Jam. Subsequently some thirty
or forty men of Jam were seized as being guilty of the blood of the Baharloos,
and made over bound to the Baharloo, by whom they were cut to pieces. A large
number of camels, sheep, and donkeys, etc., were taken from the people of
Jam.
34. A severe earthquake occurred on x6th October 1883 on the Persian
coast which was felt at Bushire, Kongoon, Asloo, Tahri, etc. Much damage
was done at Kongoon and other coast villages, where shocks continued to be
felt until October 24th.
35. The wealthy Persian merchant of Bushire, Haji Baba, above mentioned,
died in May 1SS3, and his grandson and heir received the titles of Malek-ut
Tujjar and Rais-ut-Tujjar.

VII.—Administration of Lingah and Bandar Abbas, 1882-83.
36. In 1882 His Majesty’s Minister at Tehran was informed by the Shah's
Government that the Government of Fars
Political A., August x88a, Noj. 191*197.
was entrusted to His Royal Highness the
Zil-es-Sultan. As a matter of fact it was found that all the fiscal and administra­
tive arrangements which existed then had been taken over by Saad-ul-Mulk,
who was an agent for the Amin-es-Sultan who resided at Tehran. At Bandar
Abbas the only recognized representative of the executive authority was one
Nasrullah Khan, who was a representative of Saad-ul-Mulk.
37. In May 1882 the Native Agent at Lingah forwarded to the Resident
a copy of the rules promulgated by Saad-ul-
Political A., June iU8a, Nos. 104*113.
Mulk, which among other innovations
provided for the appointment of a permanent committee of merchants to
decide all mercantile cases at that port. The arrangement, the Resident thought,
would entail serious and objectionable alteration of the status of British
defendants. On representations being made at Tehran, Saad-ul-Mulk was
ordered to abstain from the action complained of.
38. In April 1883 Mahomed Hassan Khan was appointed Governor of
Bandar Abbas and Lingah. He was a
A., Political C., June 1883, Nos. 2406.
brother of Saad-ul-Mulk, a nominee of
Amin-es-Sultan, who had again farmed revenues and customs of Bandar Abbas
and Lingah directly from the Shah.