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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [83] (100/578)
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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PERSJA- NO. XVTJ I—1857.
83
to undertake military operations for the repression and punishment of the aggres
sors ; but it is distinctly understood and agreed to that any military force of the
Shah which may cross the frontier for the above-mentioned purpose shall retire
within its own territory as soon as its object is accomplished, and that the exercise
of the above-mentioned right is not to be made a pretext for the permanent occu
pation by Persia, or for the annexation to the Persian dominions, of any town or
portion of the said States.
Article 8.
The Persian Government engages to set at liberty without ransom, immediately
after the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty, all prisoners taken during the
operations of the Persian troops in Afghanistan, and all Afghans who may be
detained either as hostages or as captives on political grounds in any part of the
Persian dominions shall, in like manner, be set free ; provided that the Afghans, on
their part, set at liberty, without ransom, the Persian prisoners and captives who
are in the power of the Afghans.
Commissioners on the part of the two contracting powers shall, if necessary,
be named to carry out the provisions of this Article.
Article 9.
The high contracting parties engage that, in the establishment and recognition
of Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls and Consular Agents, each shall be
placed in the dominions of the other on the footing of the most favoured nation ;
and that the treatment of their respective subjects and their trade shall also, in
every respect, be placed on the footing of the treatment of the subjects and
commerce of the most favoured nation.
Article 10.
Immediately after the ratifications of this Treaty have been exchanged the
British mission shall return to Tehran, when the Persian Government agrees to
receive it with the apologies and ceremonies specified in the separate note signed
this day by the plenipotentiaries of the high contracting parties.
Article 11.
The Persian Government engages, within three months after the return of the
British mission to Tehran, to appoint a Commissioner, who, in conjunction with a
Commissioner to be appointed by the British Government, shall examine into and
decide upon the pecuniary claims of all British subjects upon the government of
Persia, and shall pay such of those claims as may be pronounced just, either in
one sum or by instalments, within a period not exceeding one year from the date
of the award of the Commissioners, and the same Commissioners shall examine
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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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