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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [42] (59/578)
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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42
PERSIA—NO. 1—1763.
Article 9.
Soldiers, sailors, servants, slaves, and others belonging to the English, who
may desert, are not to be protected or entertained by the Shaik or his people,
but, bond fide, secured and returned.
Article 10.
In case any English ships sell to or buy from the country merchants apart
from the
factory
An East India Company trading post.
, a due account thereof is to be rendered to the English Chief for
the time being, for which purpose one of his people is to attend at the weight and
delivery of all goods so sold, which is to be done at the public Custom House.
Article 11.
If through any accident an English vessel should be drove on bhore in the
country belonging to the Shaik, they shall not in any respect be plundered ; but,
on the contrary, the Shaik stall afford the English all the assistance in his power
for saving them and their effects, the English paying them for their trouble.
Article 12.
The Shaik shall not permit his subjects to purchase any goods from English
vessels in the road, but only on shore.
The Seal of Shaik Sadoon.
Eoyal Grant from Karem Khan, King of Persia, —1763.
The Great God having, of his infinite mercy, given victory unto Karem Khan,
and. made him Chief Governor of all the kingdoms of Persia, and established under
him the peace and tranquillity of the said kingdoms, by means of his victorious
sword, he is desirous that the said kingdoms should flourish and re-obtain their
ancient grandeur by the increase of trade and commerce, as well as by a due execu
tion of justice.
Having been informed that the Right Worshipful William Andrew Price,
Esq., Governor-General for the English nation in the Gulf of Persia, is arrived
with power to settle a
factory
An East India Company trading post.
at Bushire, and has left Mr. Benjamin Jervis, Resident,
who, by directions from the said Governor-General, has sent unto me Mr. Thomas
Durnford and Stephen Hermit, linguist, to obtain a grant of their ancient privileges
in these kingdoms, I do, of my free will and great friendship for the English nation,
grant unto the said Governor-General, in behalf of his king and Company, the
following privileges, which shall be inviolably observed and held sacred in good
faith 6
That the English Company may have as much ground, and in any part of
Bushire, they choose to build a
factory
An East India Company trading post.
on, or at any other port in the Gulf. They
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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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