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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [248] (265/578)
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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248
AFGHANISTAN—NO. IX—1887.
demarcation, that the Serai Khodja-Saleh, situated in the vicinity of the Ziaret
known under the same name, should be considered as the extreme point of the
Afghan possessions on the Amou-Daria, and that the frontier should be drawn
immediately below the Serai in question.
In the opinion of the Cabinet of Her Britannic Majesty a demarcation carried
out under these conditions would be likely to entail serious inconvenience, espe
cially having regard to the fact that the canals used for the irrigation of the terri
tory lying between Khodja-Saleh and Islim take their rise in the neighbourhood
of Kilif* a circumstance which could not fail to be the source of continual dis
putes between the populations on either side of the frontier. In order to obviate
these objections, the Cabinet of Her Britannic Majesty considered it preferable
to give up the attempt to come to an understanding as to a fresh frontier on the
left bank of the Amou-Daria, and to authorise Sir W. Bidgeway to offer to the
Imperial Russian Government in exchange for the territory which they claimed
on the left bank of Amou-Daria, compensation on another part of the frontier.
This compensation related to the territory of which the Sarik Turkomans of Penj-
deh as explained above had been dispossessed in consequence of the tracing
of the frontier in conformity with the provisions contained in the Protocol of
London of the 29th August (10th September ) 1885.
This proposal having received the adhesion of the Imperial Russian Govern
ment, M. Zinoview and Sir West Ridgeway have agreed on the following pro
visions :—
1 .
The frontier, the description of which is contained in the Annex to the present
Protocol under the letter (A) and which is included between the pillars No. 1 and
No. 19 and the pillars No. 36 and No. 65, is considered as definitely settled. The
trigonometrical points on the portion of the frontier line described above and
included between pillars No. 19 and No. 36 are likewise admitted as definitive;
the description of this part of the frontier, as well as that of the part to the east
ward of the pillar No. 65, may be completed after the demarcation.
The synopsis of pillars attached to Protocol No. 15, dated the 1st (13th) Sep
tember 1886, is admitted to be correct and definitive as regards pillars No. 1 to
No. 19, and Ko. 36 to No. 65 ; it will be completed subsequently by the synopsis
of the pillars from No. 20 to No. 35 and by that of the pillars to the east of No.
65.
2 .
Leaving pillar No. 19, the frontier shall follow a straight line up to the sum
mit of the hill marked 2,740 on map No. 1 annexed to the present protocol. This
point, where pillar No. 20 shall be placed, is known under the denomination of
“ trigonometrical station of Kara Tepe ” (latitude 35° 17' 49", longitude 62° 15'
17 ). Further on the line shall descend the crest of the hills, being directed from
this point towards the confluence of the Kushk and the Moghur pillar No. 21
shall be placed on a point of this crest or of its slope, so as to be seen from the
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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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