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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [160] (483/578)
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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PERSIA— Telegraphs —APPENDIX NO. XXXV—1882.
APPENDIX No. XXXV.—[See page 28.]
English Translation of the Renewal of Concession of 1868 to 31st January
1905. Sealed by Persian Foreign Office, Teheran, and signed by T. D.
Nelson on behalf of Telegraph Company on the 12th August 1882.
The Imperial Persian Government having taken into consideration the request
of the Indo-European Telegraph Company, on the prolongation of these Conces
sions in Persia, the said Concessions are modified and renewed in conformity with
the following conditions and clauses :—
Article 1.
The period of the Concessions of the 11th January 1868 and of the 24th May
1869 are prolonged to 31st January 1905.
Article 2.
The Persian Government has already, by the Concession of the 24th May 1869,
ceded to the actual Concessiounaires, for the period comprised within the 1st of
January 1870 and the expiration of the Treaty of the 23rd November 1865, all the
lights that this treaty gives and that the renewal of the treaty can yet give on the
receipts on the transmitted messages sent on the Teheran-Bushire line, and the
English Government has approved of this arrangement to which it adhered by the
Treaty of the 2nd December 1872. The cession of these same receipts is prolonged
by the present Convention until the 31st January 1905.
Article 3.
On the expiration of the Treaty of the 2nd December 1872 between the Persian
Government and the English Government, the Teheran-Bushire line will be handed
back to the Concessionnaires unless the Persian Government concludes within this
period with the English Government a new convention respecting this line on the
same financial basis, the Concessionnaires will be bound to observe all the condi
tions of this treaty which are applicable to a company.
Article 4.
The Concessionnaires have already undertaken to pay to the Persian Govern
ment for 25 years (from 1st February 1870 to the 31st January 1895) a rental of
120,000 francs per annum, and in consideration of the prolongation of ten years
accorded by the present Concession, the Concessionnaires now consent to pay to the
Persian Government an annual sum of 10,000 francs besides the 120,000 francs
which is referred to above, this payment to commence from the 31st January 1882
and to continue until the 31st January 1905, being the period of the prolongation
stipulated in the above Article No. 1.
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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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