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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [293] (310/578)
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. xxiv —1921
293
Schedule I.
(Referred to in Article 11.)
In the nulla bed running from Landi Khanna to Painda Khak Post, the Afghan
frontier has been advanced approximately 700 yards, and the Tor Kham Ridge,
including Shamsa Kandao and Shamsa Kandao Sar, is comprised in Afghan terri
tory. Further, the Afghan frontier has been advanced between the point where
the present boundary joins the Kabul River and Palosai from the centre of the
river at the right bank.
(а) The Legations, Consulate-General and Consulates of the two High Contract
ing Parties shall at no time be used as places of refuge for political or ordinary
offenders or as places of assembly for the furtherance of seditious or criminal
movements or as magazines of arms.
(б) The Minister of His Britannic Majesty at the Court of Kabul shall, together
with his family, secretaries, assistants, attaches, and any of his menial or domestic
servants or his couriers who are British subjects, be exempt from the civil juris
diction of the Afghan Government, provided that he shall furnish from time to
time to the Afghan Government a list of persons in respect of whom such exemp
tion is claimed and, under a like proviso, the Minister of the Amir to the Royal
Court of London to which all the Ambassadors of States are accredited shall,
together with his family, secretaries, assistants, attaches and any of hift menial
or domestic servants or his couriers who are Afghan subjects, be exempt from the
civil jurisdiction of Great Britain. If an offence or crime is committed by an Afghan
subject against the British Minister or the persons above-mentioned who are
attached to the British Legation, the case shall be tried according to the local
law by the Courts of Afghanistan within whose jurisdiction the offence is com
mitted, and the same procedure shall be observed vice versa, with regard to offences
committed in England by British subjects against the Afghan Minister or other
persons above-mentioned attached to the Afghan Legation.
(c) (1) A Consul-General, Consuls and members of their staffs and households,
who are subjects of the State in which they are employed, shall remain subject
in all respects to the jurisdiction, laws and regulations of such State.
(2) A Consul-General, Consuls and members of their staffs and households,
ether than subjects of the State in which they are employed, shall be subject to
the jurisdiction of the Courts of such State, in respect of any criminal offence
committed against the Government or subjects of such State, provided that no
Consul-General, Consul or member of their staff or household shall suffer any
Legations and Consulates.
Schedule II.
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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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