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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [176] (193/578)
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. XXVI—1928.
Note to Acting Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs recording the position with
regard to an Error in the Dominions Notes of May 10.
Sir R. Clive to M. PaJcrevan.
Tehran, November 30, 1928.
(No. 306).
AL le Gee ANT,
Under instructions from His Majesty’s Government in Great Britain, I have
the honour to draw Your Excellency’s attention to an error which appears in the
notes annexed to the Anglo-Persian Tariff Autonomy Treaty of the 10th May
last. This error has already on several occasions formed the subject of discus
sion with His Highness the Minister of Court, and it is now the wish of my Govern
ment to put on record the fact that a certain passage in the notes mentioned above
has been wrongly drafted, and to explain what it had been intended to say.
2. The passage in question occurs twice, firstly in paragraph 2 of my first
note regarding the position of the self-governing Dominions of Canada, the Com
monwealth of Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa and the Irish
Free State in relation to the Tariff Autonomy Treaty, and secondly in paragraph
2 of your Excellency’s reply. The original wording of this paragraph, in the
form to which His Majesty’s Government in the Dominions had agreed, ran as
follows
“ It is understood that His Britannic Majesty retains the right in respect of
each of the Dominions mentioned above of withdrawing separately from the exist
ing treaties between His Majesty and the Shah of Persia.”
The object of this provision was to ensure that the Dominions retained for the
future the right which they already possessed under article 2 of the Anglo-Persian
Commercial Convention of 1903, and paragraph 3 of the Anglo-Persian Commercial
Agreement of 1920, of withdrawing from participation in those instruments.
3. Owing to a misunderstanding due to the extreme haste with which the
negotiations for the treaty had to be conducted, this paragraph in the notes as
actually signed ran as follows :—
“ II est entendu que Sa Majeste britannique reserve le droit, pour chacun des
hi tats susmentionnes, de denoncer separement le present traite a la date de son
expiration.”
It is evident that this wording in no way represents the intentions of His
Majesty’s Governments. It is, indeed, meaningless, for the treaty itself was not
&igned on behalf of the Dominions and does not apply to them ; it is not possible
for His Britannic Majesty to reserve the right to denounce a treaty on behalf of
parts of his territories to which that treaty does not apply, nor is it reasonable to
refer to the possibility of denouncing something at the date of its expiry when
there is nothing to denounce.
4. My Government understand from His Highness the Minister of Court that
the Persian Government are not disposed to agree to the rectification of the error
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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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