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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [196] (213/578)
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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196 PERSIA— Telegraphs — NOS. XXXIV—1905 AND XXXV—1913.
construction, it is agreed that two European engineers with the necessary employes
and labourers shall be temporarily placed by the Department for the purpose
at the disposal of the Persian Government, and that the telegraph ship belonging
to the Department shall, as soon as the season permits, lay the two submarine
ends between Henjam and Bunder Abbas respectively, and after completing the
work they shall return.
2. As soon as the line is complete and the cost of materials and charges of the
engineers and telegraph ship have been paid, the line shall be handed over to the
Persian Ministry of Telegraphs. The Persian Government shall also have a tele
graph office built at Henjam at their own cost, and appoint Persian telegraphists.
I he Bunder Abbas line shall be connected with the Persian telegraph office at
Henjam and all messages for abroad which are received from Bunder Abbas and
which are to be communicated by the English telegraph office at Henjam ’shall
be received by the Persian telegraph office and immediately transmitted to the
English telegraph office.
' ® . arges t0 be made b y tIle Indo-European Department for the services
°, ® Engineers and telegraph ship shall not exceed l!s. 75,000, and the payment
ot she above sum is guaranteed by the Persian Government.
i. The declaration of the Persian Government that it will not employ foreign
*.e non-Persian, subjects in the. working of the line shall not be held to preclude
i rom employing at the usual charges such subjects in the service of the Indo-
European Telegraph Department for any repairs to the submarine cables or other
of thel7„e T be " e “ SSary in connection «>e maintenance and upkeep
of thehne, nor from allowing at the Bunder Abbas office a British signaller to deal
p h S^e messages sent on behalf of the British Government to and from its
Consulate at Bunder Abbas, should the British Government desire it.
to the°8th dfvof R^bb* 'fr ■ n th g 13th <1ay ° f May in the 1905 equivalent
ro tne otii day of Rebbi-ul-Avvei in the year 1323 A. H.
Arthur H. Hardinge,
Mushir-ed-Dowleh.
Ho. XXXV.
iS'ote addressed to Chief Direct™? nf
DIRECTOR Of lELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT of BRITISH
Government,— 1913 .
{Translation.)
In reply to your letters on the subject of remi™ A v • ,
stitution of iron poles for wooden ones I have the hot e r SUl "
Convention referring to this line dated the At] '" onn y 011 as the
. , - S ’ dated the 28th Jemadi-uI-Ewel, 1327, which
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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)
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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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