At the instance of Mr.Khanikoff, Dr.Wright and Mr.
Stoddard visited him at Tabriz, to see what could be done to induce the government to check the doings of its agent.

But in this they failed, though the Consul did all he could to assist them.

Even the Turkish Consul volunteered his aid, but almost in vain.

Through Mr.
Khanikoff, they learned that the orders from Teheran to the Kaim Makam required him to forbid the labors of the missionaries in the province of Salmas; to see that no school was established save in the two places where missionaries resided; and that the number of the schools should not exceed thirty, nor the number of pupils one hundred and fifty.

He was to require that no girl receive instruction, at all events, in the same school with boys.