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Revenue Department*
pjt£lfali/*» Mr. A. Leeoffro • 17th January to 3lefc December#
Mirza Ibrahim Khan
. 1st January to 31st December.
Gendarmerie Gouvernmentale.
if iorG. GHinatcdt, Commandant,
three Swedish Officers . . • 24th October to 31st December,

Principal Dixtricl Governore.
JitCCBlSTAH . Vacant.
1&. Salar Muayyad
- January.
Amir-i-IIishmat • February to August.
S3lar-i-Mufakham . August to 3l8t December.
.VaHIashib • • \ • Vacant.
BCD3AR. Underlings of Amir Mufakham at times, and at end of year Mirza Muhammad
Khan, but the Zarghain-i-Nizam de facto throughout the year.
JiiCFT. Muhammad Khan in the early part of the year, and Hussain Ali Khan in November
and December.
Agta-Afshar. Local Chiefs. Intizam-ul-Mulk, Bakhtiari. September and October.
&bxi and Rabur. Rifat-ud-Dowleh during first half of year.
Ssjak. Muhtasham-ud-Dowleh. . 1st January to 31st December.
2aISin;an. Salar-i-Muazzam, B. . 1st to 19tb January.
Salar Amjad, B. . 20th January to 2*2ad October.
Jjocal petty official • to end of year.
The Amir-i-Mufakham, Governorship and expedition.—The principal
jolilical event of the year was the reorganisation of the Revenue Department
Political History. under European control, and the fight for
supremacy which naturally ensued between
lie old stylo Governor-General and the new style European controller of the
fnances. The Amir-i-Mufakham was already established firmly in his office
rith all the prestige of having broken up and dispersed the bands of robbers
riio had been terrorising and decimating the countryside, when His
Majesty’8 Consul arrived, on the 10th January, followed by Mr. Lecoffre,
* the 17th.
Tlie Amir lost no time in impressing his views on the suitation upon
His Majestys Consul and asking for his assistance.
(a) He was bankrupt and asked for a sum of 40,000 tomans which he said
»as due to him from Government on account of his pay and expenses for the
Preceding two months.
(h) He urged the necessity of his making a tour with a military foroa round
districts of the Kerman Province for the purposes of collecting the revenue,
intimidating the disloyal and confirming the loyal. He would be able to
ttodertake it if granted the 40,000 tomans claimed.
(c) He complained bitterly of the enmity and dishonesty of Mirza Ibrahim
inan, Amin-i-Maliya, and the relations he had gathered round him in office.
After a month and a half of negotiations in Tehran with the Treasurer
Qeneral, and in Kerman with Mr. Lecoffre, to whom funds were remitted,
arrangement was arrivod at, and a breach which threatened between tbs
Jaiir and Mr. Lecoffre was avoided. Part of the Amir’s olaim was paid, and
r? ^vas relieved of certain financial responsibilities by Mr. Leooffre. He kept
6,8 ^’Ord and started, on March 9th, for Bam. Here he remained for some
*ee^8 recruiting his foroes, arranging looal affairs, and corresponding with
it