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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.107, cont.)

(the sancak of) Tekke, el-Hacc Mehmed Aga, who, out of pure greed, had killed his brother ‘All Aga, and two beardless slaves of yet another brother, Ebubekir Pa§a, had robbed their estates, and oppressed the local population. ff. 50a-55a. A memorandum by Ebübekir Efendi concerning the estate of the deceased kOzl ‘Abdurrahman Pa§a in the sancak of ‘ Ala’Iye (Alanya) which had been confiscated by the aforementioned el-Hacc Mehmed Aga. It comprises: an inventory describing various houses, a bathhouse and landed property, as well as copies of documents on the affair, among them a petition with seven signatures (53a) of the destitute heirs to the Porte. Dated 1225 (1810). ff. 55a-56a. A note (tez/dre) from the tophane-i 'amire müfiri, Damad Halil Rif‘at Pa§a, to the mülkïye nazin, Pertev Efendi, followed by the latter’s answer. Dated Safer 1247 (July-August 1831). It consists of an exchange of civilities. ff. 56a-57a. A note (ka’ime) from the former kd’immakam, Köse Müsa Pa§a, to el-Hacc Ibrahim Re§Id Efendi, vali of Tripoli (Syria) and defterdar (concerning arrears in tax remittances for the years 1208-10/1793-6). ff. 57a-b. A note ($ukka) from the vd/f of Sivas, Re§Id Pa§a, to the zecriye muhassili, el-Hacc Edhem Beg Efendi, concerning the mission of an envoy of the Porte, the kapuciba$i ‘Abdl Beg, to north-eastern Anatolia in order to improve relations with the provinces of Kurdistan. ff. 57b-59b. A note (tezfdre) from the kapu kethiidasi, Haccf Edhem Beg, to ‘Abdl Beg Efendi, dated 29 Ramazan 1250 (29 January 1835). It concerns the latter’s mission to Kurdistan. Sender warns him for the savage customs of the Kurds ‘who are like animals’. ff. 59b-60b. A note (tez/dre) from the kapudan-i derya, Nasühzade ‘All Pa§a, to Sadik Efendi, dated Muharrem 1237 (September-October 1821). It concerns the arrival, by way of the Black Sea, of two suspicious ships loaded with wheat and Russian cloth, flying Austrian flags, off the coast of Yeniköy. They were actually Greek (Rüm), and without ferman. The same had been true of a ship flying a Russian flag and carrying wheat, salted fish and other goods, but whose captain - he pretended that he had left his passport at the Austrian chancellery - and crew, interrogated at the Arsenal, appeared to be Greek as well, despite the fact that two of them tried to prove, by their passes, that they were respectively, Russian and