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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [183] (200/578)
The record is made up of 1 volume (289 folios). It was created in 1933. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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PERSIA— Telegraphs — NOS. XXVIJ1—1865 AND XXIX—1868. igjj
stantinople, the amount due to the Persian Government will be certified by the
English Officer and speedily paid every six months, as stated in the last Article.
The above account shall always be open to the inspection of the Telegraph Agent
of the Persian Government at Constantinople, or any person recognized by the
Persian Minister at the Ottoman Court for the settlement of accounts of inter
national traffic on the Persian Turkish Line.
Article 16.
The Telegraph Regulations drawn up at Paris on the thirteenth of April Anno
Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five shall be carried Out under the
superintendence of the Persian Government so far as not opposed to the terms
of the present convention or the institutions of Persia.
10 V. ".O. • : • - • * ' '*' •
- ; Article 17.
Any disagreement arising between the telegraphic employes of the two gov
ernments shall be referred to their Excellencies the Persian Minister for Poreign
Affairs and the British Minister at Tehran, in order that, after necessary investi
gation, a just decision may be pronounced.
Article 18.
' This convention shall take effect from the opening of correspondence oh the
second wire, and remain in force for five years from the- day that a telegram is
first despatched hereby. At the expiration of the five years it shall be null ahd
void. If at any time within the term appointed the capabilities of Persian tele
graphers for their work shad be proved to the satisfaction of the Chief of the Persian
Telegraphs and the English Telegraph Officer, the full period shall be curtailed,
and the line made over altogether to the Persian Government.
' Article 19.
' The present convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at
Tehran within five months, or sooner if practicable.
Done at Tehran on the twenty-third of November Anno Domini one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five. ,
No. XXIX.
Convention between Great Britain and Persia for extending and securing
TelegraRHic communication between Europe and India signed, in the
English and Persian languages, at Tehran, April 2nd, 1868.*
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
and His Majesty the King of all the Kingdoms of Persia, being desirous to extend
and secure the means of telegraphic communication between Europe and Indi a
have resolved to conclude a convention for that purpose, and have named as
their Plenipotentiaries (that is to say) :
■* ■— “T— . ■ * n x .
* Ratification exchanged at Tehran, August 25th, 1868.
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The volume is the fifth edition of volume 13 of a collection of historic treaties, engagements and sanads (charters) relating to India and its neighbouring countries, namely Persia and Afghanistan. This volume, originally compiled by Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Under Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, was revised in 1930 and published in 1933 by the Manager of Publications in Delhi, under the authority of the Government of India.
Part 1 of the volume contains treaties and engagements relating to Persia and dating from between 12 April 1763 and 10 May 1929. The treaties refer to: trade agreements; foreign relations; prohibition and suppression of the slave trade; sovereignty and status of Persian regions; frontier negotiations; foreign concessions; telegraph lines. Part 2 of the volume contains treaties and engagements relating to Afghanistan and dating from between 17 June 1809 and 6 May 1930. The treaties relate to: foreign relations; the establishment of boundaries and frontier negotiations; peace treaties; commercial relations; import of arms. A number of appendices follow part 2, which contain the text of treaties relating to both Persia and Afghanistan.
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- 1 volume (289 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged into two parts covering Persia and Afghanistan respectively, as are the appendices at the end of the volume. Each part is divided into a number of chapters, identified by Roman numerals, and arranged chronologically, from the earliest treaties to the most recent. At the beginning of each part is a general introduction to the treaties and engagements that follow.
There is a contents page at the front of the volume (ff 4-8) which lists the geographical regions and treaties. The contents pages refers to the volume’s pagination system. There is a subject index, arranged alphabetically, at the end of the volume (ff 277-87) which also refers to the volume’s pagination system.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio (except for the front cover where the folio number is on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- front, back, front-i, i-r, i-v, ii-r, ii-v, 1:10, 1:306, 1:230, 1:22, iii-r, iii-v, back-i
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