 The residents accused the sheikhs of seeking to enrich themselves rather than collect taxes on behalf of the authorities.The case was transferred to the Nablus Advisory Council headed by Mahmud Abd al-Hadi, who concluded that the residents' claims about the sheikhs were false and that the promissory notes were meant to make up for the resident's failure to pay taxes due to a bad olive harvest.The petitioners and the sheikhs subsequently met and reconciled their differences peacefully.