'File 14/115 VII Annex (B 9) Abu Musa oxide: collected background material on the case' [‎152r] (314/1904)

Annex 30.
Translation of a letter from Abdullah bin Sarmiyeh Nejef
Ali Ahmed
{Dated Calcutta, 1st Shaaban 1322=11th
After compliments and enquiries after your health.
I have this day written you a letter by post and enlightened you therein of
what was necessary to be stated. God willing, it will find you in good health.
I have informed you especially that a settlement has been made between us
and David Sassoon by compromise and reconciliation. And let it not be hidden
from you that owing to the fact that Haji Ali has passed away, there is need for a
power from you, so that I may sign for you in the papers appertaining to the com
promise, because in the beginning there was in our hand a power from your father
Haji Ali (stating) that I was his agent in Calcutta, and after your father's death I
informed (them) that you were in your father's place; and the court demanded that
you should write a power for me setting forth that you are the attorney and execu
tor of the will of your father, and also that I am Agent in Calcutta on your behalf
in the Sassoon case, and for the oxide, etcetera, and the power should be (written)
in English in accordance with the law, because Haji Ali has passed away and it is
necessary that the Court should understand that Haji Ali has no son besides you.
Therefore in order to settle the affairs I have written in your name a special power
in the case of oxide and our dispute with Sassoon (saying) that what we now arrange
with Sassoon for settlement by compromise is agreed upon by you. I intended
sending the power by registered post by this mail, but it was not ready. This is
for your information, and, God willing, it will reach you by registered post next
mail.
You should act upon the instructions which I will now explain to you.
When you receive the power, you should take it to the Resident or British
Vice-Consul and Assistant Resident at Bunder Abbas. He will read it over to you
and you should admit before him that this power is from you to me and that I am
you/agent in Calcutta in the same way as in the days of your father and affix
your signture—Najaf bin Ali Ahmed Saleh—in the place which is marked in pen
cil. Then the Resident or Vice-Consul will record his testimony and seal it with
the Government seal. You should forward it soon and avoid procrastinaton and
delay and you should send it to me by registered post to Calcutta soon and with
out delay. On the same day when it reaches you, you should take it to the Resi
dent or the Assistant who is now present at Bunder Abbas. I have written you
this letter by this mail so that you may know that you will receive the power by
registered post, i am sending you this letter in my fatner s letter and have ^or-*
warded another lettec to you by post. Surely I will write you by the next mail
also with the power.
Your letters to me should continue without interruption as before when Haji
Ali continuously kept me informed of the situation and of the reports. This is
what (was necessary to be said at present. God willing, I will settle matters after
the receipt of the power and proceed to your side in Shavval.
This is what had to be stated and may you remain preserved and generous.
Your friend,
(Sd.) ABDULLAH bin HASAN SAMAIYEH.
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