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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [69] (86/578)
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—NOS. XIII—1841 AND XIV—1844. 09
has resided at Buskire, the Persian Government grants permission that the said
Resident shall reside there as heretofore ; and in like manner two commercial
Agents shall reside on the part of the Persian Government, one in the capital,
London, and one in the port of Bombay, and shall enjoy the same rank and privileges
which the commercial Agents of the British Government shall enjoy in Persia.
This Commercial Treaty we, the plenipotentiaries of the high contracting parties,
have agreed to, and in witness thereof have set thereunto our hands and seals,
at the capital city of Teheran, this twenty-eighth day of October in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, corresponding to the twelfth
day of the month Ramzan, in the year of the Hegira 1257.
John McNeill.
Sealed by Mirza Abul Hossein Khan,
Minister for Foreign Affairs.
No. XIV.
Translation of a
Firman
A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
relating to bankruptcies, issued by the Persian
Government for the protection of British merchants at the instance of
Colonel Sheil, Her Majesty’s Charge d’affaires at Teheran, dated
Jummadee-ool-Awul 1260 Hegira, corresponding with May and June 1844.
This, that the high in rank (with other usual titles) Hossein Khan, Adjutant
Bashee, Governor of the province of Yezd, honoured and exalted by the increasing
favour of His Majesty, may know that the ministers of the British Government
having, from a high sense of justice, certified that, with reference to the property
remaining with bankrupts and insolvents, to be proportionately distributed and
divided among their creditors the subjects of the exalted Persian and British
Governments, the dependants of that government (British), shall not on this head
receive the slightest favour or distinction ; and having at the present time requested,
through the medium of their Charge d’Affaires, His Excellency Colonel Sheil, that
suitable regulations comprehended in certain Articles, not incompatible with the
religion of Islam, should be passed for the protection of merchants, the dependants
of the British Government, from all kinds of deceptions, fraud, and evil designs
on the part of the insolvent and fraudulent bankrupt, and His Persian Majesty
being earnestly desirous that foreign nations and merchants, the subjects of other
States in the protected territories of the Shah in Shah, should be secured from every
evil design of the insolvent and fraudulent bankrupt, accordingly these commercial
regulations, which have been arranged between the ministers of the Persian Govern
ment and His Excellency Colonel Shell, the British Charge d’Affaires and have
received the auspicious approval and approbation of His Majesty, are written
and detailed for the information of that high in rank, etc. (Hossein Khan), in the
body of this document.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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