'F 80 File 82/34 I APOC Concession' [‎138r] (238/436)

oonTentloJiaa wQtt aonoladei aM t'hanfcB to God
feas
9aiia«Xlfd« .ivex^ ens atte the© acras^a fwll hlatoiy of how
oxtort'sd tMQWi Persia dint ot oo»*aion and pressure
4kjad th« point; has baau xefaned to -a the note of the Minister
for #♦ A # aal X do&ot want to raise it isore copiously for fear
of trespaasiii ovar the Ximlttt/ of ^oart««y, ^he extreme
weakness of tha ^o"7t^more iatense in the latter part of the
relr;a vt <.>ximi * -ai^ laadi t.- extort; ouj the more a:
Bee id ta, I would reiterate tliat the Persian Uovt were not
free when thej Bi t ned this eona^©^lon and the agreement 1 b there
fore iaira ld # mother Mia condition of a tranaaotloa Is that
the contract og parties should know fche oat ^er at lauue and If
the^ are Ignorant aa to the subject at the trar^aotlon it la
fcuto&atloaij^lava iid* I m& that the text ox th<2 i) f ^ray oonoesalon
itself ehows plainly th^t the Authletj of t/ne tiL e did not know wha
th^y signed and what they gave. I saw a file xn the Minty of
f inance which shewed that at the time waen the couceasion ma be In
no. ^iT«n # the uinlater of ^ iuance wr^te a noxe fco the Uiiity of ]?♦
A* and to the Uh^n viadr-W »am to the effect thnt the Xanda
involve i in the concosalon have to a yearly tax of Ta ^000
which will hnYL to be aetur^d In trie traneactlon and thla rave
tl&s to the addition of a new oiauee in the conoeBaion demanding
that thlu aa EOOO should be paid b the U^wpany, This ahowe that
the iovt did not know the iuipoi tance of the subject of tranaao-
tion and therdi'oie the tranaaotion ifi xstxsdct Invalid with the
argument already forwarded*
lay third argument concern® the clrcunatanoes of Id sue
of iuch flraam# I donot want here to go through the manner
In which finaass of different descriptions were is-^'ted at that
time teat I will make a hint to two ox three of thw .aimed
in I'dl&m One of them was the ' as re 4 ajar Airman whlah was
c inoe i. led C Daahtii what was this firman A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’). ?) I do not want to mention
here the nature of that flrnian f it Is not decent (It m correct^
There were other firmans issued by Musafar^ed^Bin ihah by which