1893. Use of 30 men to carry flour for Mohammed Agha, 2 days 150 ps. For Mohammed Agha, cash 10 liras 1,000 For Mohammed Agha, 15 pieces of cloth 150 For Taher Agha, cash 14 liras 1,400 For Taher Agha, taken from village priest, cash 75 ps., saddle 75 ps., watch 200 ps. 350 For Sahdoon Agha, cash 2 liras 200 For Mohammed 120 For Khorsheed 57 For Mohammed Agha, harvest, 500 men at 3 ps. 1,500 For Mohammed Agha, repair of his roads, 65 men, 3 days 487 For Mohammed Agha, repair of his roads, 50 men, 3 days 375 For Mohammed Agha, preparation of boiled wheat for winter, 450 men and 14 animals 1,160 For Mohammed Agha, building house in Dader, 150 men 375 For Mohammed Agha, 2000 ceiling sticks, 10 posts 554 For Mohammed Agha, 4 large trees for rafters, at 50 ps. 200 ————— Total for 1893 8,078 ps. The above were noted in a book at the time of the occurrence by a village priest, as being seen by him personally, and do not give the great part of the exactions of the Shernakh Kurds, which he did not see. One item additional to above: all the cotton of Mohammed Agha of Shernakh is, by the villagers, beaten, spun, twisted, woven, and returned as cloth (involving many days’ labor and two days’ journey), and any weight lost in the making up the amount must be made good. This oppression is increasing from year to year. The above priest noted for years 1880–’82, taken by Aghas—cash, 4141 ps.; 90 animals used, 450 ps.; 314 men used, 785 ps. Total for three years, 5376, as over against 10,973 ps. for three years, 1891–’93.” “Testimony given in writing, by a Christian of the District of Berwer, in reference to the oppression of Christians in that district by the Kurds, of which he himself was an eye-witness, the examples given being confined to three small villages and of recent occurrence. He gives the names of places and of the parties concerned, both Kurds and Christians. We summarize them. _Murders._—Eight men mentioned by name, others generalized. _Robbery._—Cash, 9 liras; again 10 liras; again 15 liras; smaller sums being taken continually. Mohammed Beg, of Berwer, and his relatives responsible in greater part for the above; also for robbing of two houses in Ina D’Noony.