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Shia rTakfs.

Rs
Revenue 1350 - 18,330/- 1351 - Rs 20,220/-
Expentiiture n 17,735/- 20,993/-

Outstanding debts due to department end of 1351,
approximately Rs 10,000/-
6'

The elections for the nev/ majlis which began at the
end of 1350 were completed early in 1351 and the ne?j
Majlis held its first meeting after Kuharam. As usual

the department was embarassed by the incessant quarrels
among the various antagonistic factions of the Shias.
Towards the end of the year a Katifi mullah of Bahrani

origin organised a public attack on the ^akf department and
produced a number of public petitions, of doubtful authen­
ticity, asking that the majlis should be dismissed and

that the government itself should deal vd th all Shia wakfs.
The agitation was undoubtedly encouraged by one of the Shia

Kadis, Shaikh Ali bin Rassan, partly under the misguided
impression that such a request would be pleasing to the
government. Many of the genuine signatories to the peti­

tions were persons who were in debt to the department and
who probably believed that by upsetting the majlis they
would escape their liabilities. A proclamation was

issued by the government stating that no change in the
administration would be considered until all the outstanding
rents had been recovered, It was hoped that as all the
members were elected by the public ther.s.elves such inci­

dents as this would not have ocurred but uue Bahama, as

they admit themselves, hove such a love^intrigue that it
is unlikely that they will ever refrain from conspiring
against a majlis which consists entirely of their own people.