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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [87] (104/578)
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—NO. XIX—1882.
87
No. XIX.
Convention between Great Britain and Persia for the Suppression of the
Traffic in Slaves.
Signed in the English and Persian languages, at Tehran, 2nd March 1882.*
[Ratifications exchanged at Tehran, 14th June 1882.]
In the name of God, the Almighty, All-Merciful.
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Empress of India, and His Majesty the Shah of Persia, being mutually animated
by a sincere desire to co-operate for the extinction of the barbarous Traffic in
Slaves, have resolved to conclude a Convention for the purpose of attaining this
object, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that it to say:
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, Empress of India—Roland Eerguson Thomson, Esquire,
Her
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'.
at the
Court of Persia ;
And His Majesty the Shah of Persia—His Excellency Mirza Saeed Khan,
His Minister for Foreign Affairs ;
Who, after having communicated to each other their full powers, found in
good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :—
Article I.
Permission to British Cruizers to visit and detain Persian Merchant Vessels.
In order to prevent the chance of negro slaves, male and female, being imported
into Persia, British cruizers shall be permitted to visit and detain merchant vessels
under the Persian hag, or belonging to Persian subjects, which may be engaged
in, or which there may be reasonable grounds for suspecting to be or to have been
engaged during the voyage on which they are met, in carrying slaves j and if anv
such slaves arc found on board such merchant vessels, the vessel, with all on board,
shall be taken before the nearest Persian authorities for trial.
Poisons provided with Government Passports not to he molested under certain cir
cumstances.
But no person whatsoever who, being furnished with a Governlnent passport,
countersigned by a British Resident or Consul, may have gone from Persia to
visit the places of pilgrimage, shall, when returning, be interfered with, provided
such person be not accompanied by more negroes, either male or female, than
the number mentioned in his original pass. The presence of any such additional
negro or negroes shall be primd facie evidence of an attempted Traffic in Slaves.
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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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- 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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