‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎84] (101/578)

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PERSIA—NO. XVIII—1857.
into and decide upon the claims on the Persian Government of all Persian subjects,
or the subjects of other powers, who, up to the period of the departure of the British
mission from Tehran, were under British protection, which they have not since
renounced.
Article 12.
Saving the provisions in the latter part of the preceding Article, the British
Government will renounce the right of protecting hereafter any Persian subject
not actually in the employment of the British mission, or of British Consuls-General,
Consuls, Vice-Consuls, or Consular Agents, provided that no such right is accorded
to or exercised by any other foreign powers ; but in this, as in all other respects,
the British Government requires, and the Persian Government engages, that the
same privileges and immunities shall in Persia be conferred upon and shall be
enjoyed by the British Government, its servants and its subjects, and that the same
respect and consideration shall be shown for them, and shall be enjoyed by them,
as are conferred upon and enjoyed by and shown to the most favoured foreign
government, its servants and its subjects.
Article 13.
The high contracting parties hereby renew the agreement entered into by
them in the month of August 1851 (Shawal 1267) for the suppression of the slave
trade in Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and engage further that the said agreement shall continue
in force after the date at which it expires, that is, after the month of August 1862,
for the further space of ten years and for so long afterwards as neither of the high
contracting parties shall, by a formal declaration, annul it; such declaration not
to take effect until one year after it is made.
Article 14.
Immediately on the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty, the British
troops will desist from all acts of hostility against Persia, and the British Govern
ment engages further that as soon as the stipulations in regard to the evacuation
by the Persian troops of Herat and the Afghan territories, as well as in regard to
the reception of the British mission at Tehran, shall have been carried into full
effeofc, the British troops shall, without delay, be withdrawn from all ports, places,
and islands belonging to Persia ; but the British Government engages that, during
this interval, nothing shall be designedly done by the Commander of the British
troops to weaken the allegiance of the Persian subjects towards the Shah, which
allegiance it is, on the contrary, their earnest desire to confirm ; and further the
British Government engages that, as far as possible, the subjects of Persia shall be
secured against inconvenience from the presence of the British troops, and that all
supplies which may be required for the use of those troops, and which the Persian
overnment engages to direct its authorities to assist them in procuring, shall be
paid for, at the fair market price, by the British Commissariat immediately on
delivery.