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when I put my seal to it. I do not know the Hand writing of Hajy Iwaz. As to my going into the Stable the whole House was my uncle’s House and I had a Right to go where I pleased and as to my finding the paper in the writing apparatus of Neaz Ally, it was in my mind to send a Copy of the Hebbanamah which I knew Shah Baz Beg Khan had executed in his Life time to Cabool and as Neeaz Ally was a servant of the deceased and Generally wrote his Letter in the absence of his dewan I concluded that the draft of it would be with him, what I did not then I concealed from the Plaintiff. I had access to her on Business. if I had not found this Draft I should not have done this, Had I applied to the Plf for a Copy of the original I was apprehensive of her becoming suspicious of my Having some designs on the Estate. It never occurred to me that there was any other Paper but the Hebbanamah and Iekraraum. In my own Country I am a Mohotesib which is the third Degree under a Kazee. If you Question me on the subject of Mahomedan Law how happened the Kajee to decide in favour of Bahhader Beg, when his Father was alive who was the Right Heir according to our Books it is unnecessary that the Kajee woud put his seal to any Paper unless a Claim be made to the Kajee it is not necessary that the Kajee and Muftees should be present at the delivery of [ILL] granted it is necessary according to our Books that there should be a delivery in some way or other to the Persian whose Favour
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