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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [55] (72/578)
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— JSO. V— 1809.
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any of the Persian ports, they shall not in any manner possess themselves of such
places, and from the date of these preliminary Articles the said detachment shall
be at the disposal of His Majesty the King of Persia, the amount of which shall be
settled in the definitive Treaty.
Akticle 6.
But if the said troops remain by the desire of His Majesty the King of Persia
either at Carrack or any other port in the Gulf of Persia, they shall be treated by
the Governor there in the most friendly manner, and orders shall be given to all the
Governors of Faristan that whatever quanity of provisions, &c., may be necessary
shall, on being paid for, be furnished to the said troops at the fair prices of the day.
Article 7.
In case war takes place between His Persian Majesty and the Afghans, His
Majesty the King of Great Britain shall not take any part therein, unless it be at the
desire of both parties, to afford his mediation for peace.
Article 8.
It is acknowledged the intent and meaning of these preliminary Articles are
defensive. And it is likewise agreed that as long as these preliminary Articles
remain in force, His Majesty the King of Persia shall not enter into any engage
ments inimical to His Britannic Majesty or pregnant with injury or disadvantage
to the British territories in India.
This Treaty is concluded by both parties in the hope of its being everlasting,
and that it may be productive of the most beautiful fruits of friendship between
the two most serene Kings.
In witness whereof we, the said plenipotentiaries, have hereunto set our hands
and seals, in the royal city of Teheran, this twelfth day of March, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, answering to the 25th of Moharem-
il-Haram, in the year of the Hegira one thousand two hundred and twenty-four.
Mahomed Sheffee.
Mahomed Hossein.
Harford Jones.
Form of His Majesty Futteh Ali Shah’s ratification of the Preliminary Treaty
with England.
This auspicious and noble document is the preliminary Treaty which was con
cluded between the ministers of the two great States and sent (to England) by the
high in family Mirza Abul Hossein Khan. At present our sincere well-wisher Sir
Gore Ouseley, Baronet, ambassador extraordinary from that great State (England),
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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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