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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [271] (288/578)
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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AFGHANISTAN—NO. XVTI—1895.
271
From thence the line shall run along the same range while it remains to the
south of the latitude of the said lake. On reaching that latitude it shall des
cend a spur of the range towards Kizil Rabat on the Aksu river, if that locality
is found not to be north of the latitude of Lake Victoria, and from thence it shall
be prolonged in an easterly direction so as to meet the Chinese frontier.
If it should be found that Kizil Rabat is situated to the north of the latitude
of Lake Victoria, the line of demarcation shall be drawn to the nearest conve
nient point on the Aksu river, south of that latitude, and from thence prolonged
as aforesaid.
2. The line shall be marked out, and its precise configuration shall be settled
by a Joint Commission of a purely technical character, with a military escort
not exceeding that which is strictly necessary for its proper protection.
The Commission shall be composed of British and Russian Delegates, with
the necessary technical assistance.
Her Britannic Majesty’s Government will arrange with the Amir of Afghanistan
as to the manner in which His Highness shall be represented on the Commission.
3. The commission shall also be charged to report any facts which can be
ascertained on the spot bearing on the situation of the Chinese frontier, with a
view to enable the two Governments to come to an agreement with the Chinese
Government as to the limits of Chinese territory in the vicinity of the line, in such
manner as may be found most convenient.
4. Her Britannic Majesty’s Government and the Government of His Majesty
the Emperor of Russia engage to abstain from exercising any political influence
or control—the former to the north, the latter to the south—of the above line of
demarcation.
5. Her Britannic Majesty’s Government engage that the territory lying within
the British sphere of influence between the Hindu Kush and the line running
from the east end of Lake Victoria to the Chinese frontier shall form part of the
territory of the Amir of Afghanistan ; that it shall not be annexed to Great Britain ;
and that no military posts or forts shall be established in it.
The execution of this agreement is contingent upon the evacuation by the
Amir of Afghanistan of all the territories now occupied by His Highness on the right
bank of the Panja, and on the evacuation by the Amir of Bokhara of the portion
of Darwaz which lies to the south of the Oxus, in regard to which Her Britannic
Majesty’s Government and the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of Russia
have agreed to use their influence respectively with the two Amirs.
I shall be obliged if, in acknowledging the receipt of this note, V our Excel
lency will record officially the agreement which we have thus concluded m the
name of our respective Governments.
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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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