To the Right Honourable His Excellency the Prime Minister. WHEREAS God Most High (glorious is His State!) hath entrusted to Our hands the direction of the progress and prosperity of the well-protected realms of Persia, and hath constituted Our Royal Personage the Guardian of the Rights of all the people of Persia and of all our loyal subjects— THEREFORE on this occasion, our Royal and Imperial judgement has decided, for the peace and tranquillity of all the people of Persia, and for the strengthening and consolidation of the foundations of the State, that such reforms as are this day required in the different departments of the State and of the Empire shall be effected ; and we do enact that an Assembly of delegates elected by the Princes, the Doctors of Divinity . . ., the Qajar family, the nobles and notables, the land-owners, the merchants and the guilds shall be formed and constituted, by election of the classes above mentioned, in the capital Tiihrán;