"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٦‎١‎١] (١٧٨٢/١٧٦٦)

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individual well acquainted with the facts, Saiyid Hasan Hakimzadah,
and was corroborated by information from other sources : —
The late and present distributors at Karbala used to put down in the accounts
fictitious names and take the money themselves. * * * They do it still onlv
more so. They enter the names of their children, servants, negroes and others as
receiving certain amounts, but|these amounts are pocketed by the distributor. This is
still the practice. Another practice of the distributor is to enter the names of really
poor persons as receiving (e. g.) Rs, 10 per mensem, but the poor man really only gets
one rupee and the distributor keeps the balance. The poor man is really paid one
rupee for his signature and is told that if he discloses the fact, his name will be
struck out altogether.
1 be staff under the Indian Distributor at Kadhimain now consisted
of nine persons, that of the Indian Distributor at Karbala of thirteen, not
counting servants; the former official now paid himself at the rate of
over Rs. 300, the latter at the rate of over Rs. 290 a month; and Agha
Hasan, a brother oi Agha Muhammad, had slipped into the position
of " Assistant Distributor" at Kadhimain on a salary of more than
Rs, of 1 per mensem. Each of the Indian Distributors, who were also
Agents of the British Residency at Baghdad, had surrounded himself
with u a little court/ in which a place was found even for salaried
Medical Attendants and, when the Agent at Karbala went to Najaf
to superintend the proceedings of the Mujtahid Distributor there, his
journey was a a kind of royal progress debited of course to the Oudh
Bequest. The supervision exercised by the Karbala Agent over the
Mujtahid Distributors was, moreover, a farce : he admitted to Major
Newmarch a without any apparent sense of shame, that he did not super-
11 vise the distribution at all, that he was never present at it, but left it
" all in the hands of one of his Munshis, who was himself a stipendiarv
"of this trust fund." " Muhammad Ibrahim Khan had signed his name
"in English on every page of the distribution account, and when 1
"asked him what this meant, he frankly admitted that it meant nothing
"that his signatures were put on each page of the account several
" days after the distribution, at which he was never present, had been
" completed.The superintendence of the Kadhimain distribution by
Mr. Marine, the Residency Dragoman, was found to have been equally
futile and perfunctory.
Major Newmarch immediately grappled with the abuses described
above and removed them in so far as it was in his power to do so. The
separate Indian Fund having been already condemned by the Govern
ment of India as an irregularity, Major Newmarch reduced the portion
of it devoted to Kadhimain from about Rs. 1,800 to Rs. 800 a month,
Preliminary
reforras by
Major New-
march, 1902.
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