'14/201 II, TRUCIAL COAST MISCELLANEOUS, B 57' [‎14r] (36/417)

translation of letter dated 7th iuiiharram 1355vi .e.
30th march 1936) from ohaikh oa ^id bin iv .aktuin, u,
roller of uibai to the Iran Minister for roreign Affairs
Tehran.
after conrpliments,
± write to inform you that a certain person
named nahrnatu 11 ah u-haffari bin al naj iviuhammad r Ali ijari
of j_.ar tov.n who has been living at Abu jjhabi and working
as trader, and had trade dealings with the r erchants of
my tov/n jjubai. ne, as matter of help, used to • et goods
on debit which he used to take to Abu jJhabi and after
selling them used to bring the noney and pay(to his creditor
and then take other goods, ihis is the help in practice
in our side. xii the month of oha J ">an 1354 U'^ov ember 1935}
the said person sold, as usual, the goods, on cash payments,
which he took from my town ijubai and also received large
sums of money from some of the re ;i dents of ^bu uliabi, which
they have entrusted him in order to pay to the people of
my town uibai. ne came to £3ubai as usual and quietly,ran
away from my town jjubai before paying tk cost of the
goods which were taken by him and the money with which
he was entrusted. i have now come to know that he went
to his home Liar via aundar .abbas and is now living there,
i nave received a letter from the nuler of Abu uhabi
claiming from me, in accordance with.the custom observed
by the unan mlers, the claims of the people under him
'..■no ai'e living in his tow, as the said person has
commit oed an r .c u ox cheating whereby he int^'^ded to csrse
loss to the people, ± request you to inform the rollce
authorities at j_,ar tovm to recover these claims from him
or to cause him to come to our side and settle with the
i.ere.iarts t leir accounts, according to the inf. ton
given /