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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [68] (391/578)
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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l xv jji PERSIA—APPENDIX NO. XVJL—1878.
APPENDIX No. XVII.—[/See page 16.]
Translation.
Tariff drawn up with the Imperial sanction, in accordance with the provisions of
the Convention of Shoubat 1295, made and exchanged between the Govern
ments of Turkey and Persia respecting the levying of a duty of 75 per cent,
on the imports into Turkey of tobacco grown in Persia and its dependencies,
-1878.
Article 1.
A general customs duty of 2 piastres and 35 paras will be charged on every oke
of Persian tobacco, of whatever kind or quality, whether the best, medium or
inferior kind imported into Turkey.
Article 2.
When the bales of tobacco arrive at the Customs House, after unfastening the
cords employed by the muleteers for attaching the loads to their mules or other
animals, the tobacco and the sacks, skins and other wrappers in which it is packed
will all be weighed together ; six okes in every hundred will then be deducted for
the weight of the covers and duty paid on the remaining number of okes.
Article 3.
The duty payable on tobacco transported from jdace to place with a teshere
(tezkereh, permit) will be two piastres 35 paras per oke, but a deduction of two
okes per hundred will be allowed, on which no duty will be charged, on account of
the increased weight of the tobacco owing to damp on the journey, during six
months dating from the 25th of October, old style. If however, the surplus weight
exceeds this amount, 2 piastres 35 paras will be charged on the excess. Duty will
also be charged at the same rate on any amount in excess of the quantity stated
in the permit, whether large or small, if the six months’ period above stated falls
in the summer season.
Article 4.
The customs duty of 2 piastres 35 paras per oke of tobacco chargeable as aboYe
must be paid in coin, the Turkish lira or Yuzleh, the only standard recognised,
being calculated at 100 piastres. Persons wishing to pay in silver mejidiehs must
pay the difference on the exchange between the gold and silver currencies, namely
4 piastres, so that 104 piastres silver will be taken as the equivalent of 100 piastres
gold.
If hereafter the Turkish currency is modified this tax will be subject to the con
vention.
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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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