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It is entirely my Hand writing. Q. How you have sworn it is your hand writing and that it is not, which is true one or the other of them must be true.
A. it is my Hand writing.
Q. You did not see Mahomed Iwaz write Ullah therefore why did you write under it.
Answr. I remember that when Ghiret Beg affixed his Seal as he could not write, the deceased Shah Baz Beg KHan desired me to write over it and having procured Iwaz to write in my absence ullah he desired me to write ullah.
Q. You have said, I think that you never saw the Hebbanama after your own seal was put to it, and till after the death of Shah Baz Beg Khan, and that when you did put your seal it, the other seals were not to it, nor the signature ullah. How come you now then to say that after the seal of Ghirit Beg was put to it, and the signature ullah that Shah Baz Beg Khan desired you to write upon the Hebbanama.
Answr. It is true that when he desired me to put my seal to it there was no other seal than his but about the same Time or a Day after when the other Witnesses Witnessed It, I was by and he desired me to witness it, I was always present with Shah Baz Beg Khan.
Q. Were you by when Mahommed Iwaz wrote the word ullah.
A. I was not present then when Innait ullah Beig & Ghiret Beg put their seals to it I was present.
Q. Why if you did not write under the word ullah as you now say you did, why did not immediately say that you did write under it.
A. I was in Doubt abt my own Hand writing and
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