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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [178] (195/578)
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— Telegraphs —NO. XXVII—1863.
Article 2.
The Persian. Government will assign a sum sufficient for the construction of
this Telegraph, and for the purchase of such materials as are not procurable in
Persia, or can be better obtained in Europe.
Article 3.
The Persian Government engages to purchase from the English Government
all the materials which are better procurable in Europe, and the English Govern
ment agrees to supply such materials at moderate prices. • .
Article 4.
In order that the said line of Telegraph may be well constructed and officially
worked, the Persian Government agrees to place it under the superintendence
of an English Engineer Officer, who is to be paid by the English Government^ 1
and they further agree to fix a period during which instruction may be given and
the line may be brought into good working order ; and his Royal Highness the
Itizad-oo-Sultaneh, the Minister of Public Instruction, and His Excellency the
Amin-ed-Dowleh, will have cognizance of the aforesaid officer’s proceedings.
Article 5.
4 said officer will be fully empowered to call upon the Persian authorities
to supply any materials he may consider requisite for this work, and the Persian
authorities will make no alterations in his requisitions unless it should be im
possible to obtain the thing required. But a Persian officer will accompany him
everywhere, so that he may be informed of what is done, and of the prices of the
materials ; and the accounts will be audited by the above-mentioned Prince and
by the Amin-ed-Dowleh every three months, when a report will be drawn up and
printed in the Tehran Gazette.
Article 6.
tn order to increase the friendship between the two governments, and to
promote the above undertaking, the English Government engages to purchase
m England, at reasonable rates, with the approval of the Persian Minister Pleni
potentiary, the materials required for this work, and to convey them to the Per
sian frontier, and to receive from the Persian Government the price paid for the
above articles by five instalments in five years after they are delivered on the
frontier of Persia.
f i ) ' • ' ' - r. ■ t .•• - • • - ’ •
. ; ^ . l l,ltl,e handwriting of the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs.)
Persian Government accepts this engagement. If the English Govern-
meat desires it, the coastractioa of the line of Telegraph will be commenced in
conformity with the.above stipulation.
Approved and accepted by Her Majesty’s Government on 6th February J863.
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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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