Crossword-Solution: IRADE 5 letters, 37 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

According to their story, some years ago a Greek who commanded capital purchased an estate at Kolossi; and having made a journey to Constantinople, where he remained for some years, he took the opportunity of bribing some high officials to obtain for him an irade from the Sultan, giving him the entire right to the water-supply, which had for so great a length of time been the acknowledged property of the neighbouring landholders.

The Ottoman Government has lately issued an imperial irade exempting forever from taxation an American college for girls at Scutari.

His Majesty's good disposition in this regard has been evinced by the issuance of an irade for rebuilding the American college at Harpoot.

The election of delegates did not meet with thorough approval; some considered that it raised individuals above the mass of Moslems, who are all equal in the sight of the Prophet, others could not understand why an assembly was necessary to voice the Sultan's "Irade" (in its original meaning, intention), and, again, there were those who thought of Parliament as a plaything of the Sultan's, and justified for that reason only.

Articles of incorporation were secured in New York in 1864, and in 1869 the Sultan of Turkey was persuaded by the American minister at Constantinople to issue an _irade_ conferring upon the institution all the advantages bestowed by the imperial government upon schools in Turkey.