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deficient as well as other swindles. (The eventual money claim against Essai
turned out to be £4,223-12-7.) Essai was kept in confinement, and the
Governor was urged to make him account for the sums embezzled. In this
case, however, except a horse which was added to the Governor's stud, there
were no visible assets, and though it was impossible Essai could have spent,
in such a short time, the actual cash extracted, yet not a penny was recovered
for Messrs. Muir and Co. In May 1882, Essai was allowed to escape, and his
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whereabouts is unknown.
474-1. Below is given a list of the more important claims of British and Bri­
tish Indian merchants against Persian subjects, showing amounts of original
< claims, amounts recovered, etc.
1. (A) Messrs. Gray, Paul and Co. versus Abdul Nabi Dallal.
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< Claim preferred 15th May 1879.
Amount of claim ... Krans 3,56,117 o
Amount recovered, including that paid by Jassim a 1,26,425 68

Balance not recovered, not counting interest jj 2,29,691 33

Debtor allowed to leave the country 14th March 1SS2.
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(B) Messrs. E. D.' Sassoon and Co. versus Abdul Nabi Dallal.
Claim preferred 27th March 1880.
1' Amount of claim • M ... Krans 26,100 o
Amount recovered Ml Ml 8,480 o

Balance not recovered, not counting interest » 17,620 o

2. (A) Messrs. Gray, Paul and Co. versus Muhammad Sadik.
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Claim preferred 21st September 1880.
Amount of claim • •• ... Krans 53,22! o
Compromised 17th September 1881 for Rs. 8,000, to be paid in four years by
yearly instalments. First instalment not yet paid.
(B) Messrs. E. D. Sassoon and Co. versus Muhammad Sadik.
Claim preferred 1st September 1881.
Amount of claim • M Ml • M ... £ 160 18 3
Compromised 8th July 1882 for Rs. 865-8, to be paid in four years by yearly
instalments. First instalment not yet paid.
3. (A) Messrs. Muir and Co. versus Sookias Essai.
Charge of swindling and misappropriating firm’s monies ; preferred 9th May 1881.
Actual money claim ... £4,223 12 7
Amount recovered ... Ml §• • Nil.
Debtor allowed to escape.
(B) Messrs. Sborey Clark and Co. versus Sookias Essai.
Claim preferred to Resident 15th August 1881.
Amount of claim £50 *7 3
Resident considered it useless to prefer this claim.
474*J- Reference has been made to Commercial Courts held at Bushire to
decide disputes of a commercial nature in
Political A., July 1882, Nos. 51-69(62).
which British or British Indian merchants
were concerned. The great defect of their constitution was that they lacked
the power to enforce their decisions, which often remained a dead-letter by reason (
of irregular appeals made by aggrieved defendants to influential persons at the
capital. To obviate these miscarriages of justice, Mr. Ronald Thomson proposed