‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎77] (94/578)

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PERSIA—NOS. XVI—1851 AND XVII—1853. 77
Mecca, or to India, or travel by sea, they must, with the knowledge of the British
Resident in Bushire, procure a passport from the officer at the head of the Persian
Passport Office in Bushire, and no exception shall hereafter be taken to any slave
holding a passport. The passport (regulation) obtained with the knowledge of the
British Resident at Bushire, is, like the other stipulations written above, to be for
a period of eleven years.
This agreement of the right of search, and the appointment of the Persian Gov
ernment officers to be on board the British cruizers, will come in force on the 1st
of Rubbee-ool-Awul 1268 (January 1st, 1852).
From the date of this document to the above date there is no right of search.
The Articles written in this document have from first to last been agreed to
by both parties, and confirmed by the ministers of both Governments, and nothing
is to be done in contravention thereof.
Written in the month of Shuwal 1267—August 1851.
Done in duplicate, signed and sealed
by Mirza Tukee Khan, Ameer-e-Nizam
of the Persian Government. Date as
above.
Justin Sheil,
Her Britannic Majesty’s Minister Pleni
potentiary and Envoy Extraordinary
at the Court of Persia.
No. XVII.
Translation*
Engagement of the Persian Government regarding Herat.
15th Rebbel-oo-Sanee 1269 (January 25th, 1853).
The Persian Government engages not to send troops on any account to the
territory of Herat, excepting when troops from without attack that place, that is
to say, troops from the direction of Cabool, or from Candahar, or from other foreign
territory ; and in case of troops being despatched under such circumstances, the
Persian Government binds itself that they shall not enter the city of Herat, and
that immediately on the retreat of the foreign troops to their own country, the
Persian force shall forthwith return to the Persian soil without delay.
The Persian Government nlso engages to abstain from all interference whatso
ever in the internal affairs of Herat, likewise in (regard to) occupation or taking
possession, or assuming the sovereignty or government, except that the same
* This translation was made in 1857 from the original Persian document, as spme doubt was
raised as to the correctness of the translaticn made in 1853.
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