In 1851, a Declaration of Rights was pronounced by Justice Sir Erskine Perry, which read: ???...the property belonged exclusively to the Jamat, and that the Jamat and not the Aga Khan, could dispose it off as it liked.??? Sir Erskine Perry also pronounced that: ???Every Khojah be he a Soonee, or a Sheeah, had a right to go to the Jamatkhana for worship, and to use the utensils and other properties