"ملخّص يحتوي على معلومات بشأن الاتصال الأول لشركة الهند الشرقية مع الجزيرة العربية التركية، طالما أمكن تتبع ذلك من سجلات حكومة بومباي، بالإضافة إلى أسماء العديد من المقيمين البريطانيين والوكلاء السياسيين الذين عُينوا في بغداد والبصرة في الفترة بين ١٦٤٦ و ١٨٤٦ ميلادي، وبمرافقة معلومات أخرى" [ظ‎‎٦‎٦] (٢٢٦/١٣٤)

102 PRECIS OP INFORMATION REGARDING CONNECTION OP E. I. COMPY.
ever have any important business, and demand a confidentisl person on the part of
the Pacha to converse with, there shall be no objection made to it, and the person
required shall be immediately sent: the benefit arising from this Article are clearly
reciprocal.
"Aeticle VI.
" There shall be no equivocation on any of these Articles. Should any doubts
hereafter arise relative to any particular contained in the Articles (especially Article
II.) the explanation of it shall be in favor of the Resident."
224. The Pacha sent the above agreement to Mr. Kich (on the
25th January 1810) in charg-e of the second officer of the Palace, with
a retinue of 200 Georgians, with orders to escort that gentleman into
Bagdad. Mr. Rich accordingly returned to Bagdad and two days
afterwards (the 27th January) paid a "public ceremonial visit" to the
Pacha, on which occasion he was invested by His Excellency with a
Pelisse, and received a present of a horse with housings, his assistant
(Mr. Hine) and Dragomen being at the same time invested with
Pelisses.
225. The Pacha on the 1st February 1810 addressed a letter to
Mr. Governor Duncan, informing him of his reconciliation with Mr.
Rich, and engaging strictly to observe the whole of the conditions
embraced in the Articles of the Agreement above alluded to.
226. In reply to repeated calls made upon him by this Govern
ment by order of the Government of India, Mr. Manesty, after consider
able delay, forwarded, on the 20th December 1809, the following informa
tion in regard to the Turkish import and export duties levied at Aleppo,
Bagdad, Bussorah, and Constantinople. These statements were forwarded
by this Government to the Government of India on the 27th January
1810:—
Statement of Turkish duties, import, collected; at Bagdad, native property,
according to the regulations of the Custom House of the present* day, viz.—
7^ per cent.
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71
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8i
9| Piasters per chest.
On Bengal goods of all descriptions whatever ...
On Surat, Guzerat, and Sind piece goods of vai
descriptions ...
On Cambay goods ...
On Surat, Leree, and Germasoot goods
On cotton yarn called Terbund
On ditto ditto called Shagyree
On Guzerat, Leree, Teffereck, and Germasoot goods
On indigo
On pepper, sugar, suguar-candy, sandal-wood, iron, black-
wood, ginger, tea, lead, sticklac, coffee, cinnamon,
cardamoms, nutmegs, cassia, cloves, and all other
gruff articles ... ... ... ... ... percent.
N.B.—These customs are collected on a valuation some times very exorbitant
and always exaggerated, whilst with respect to the Surat, Leree, and Germasoot, and
the Guzerat, Leree, and Germasoot and Tefiereck goods, the customs, now apparently
moderate, have been reduced to prevent smuggling and to encourage their owners to
convey them to the Custom House, although they there suffer exceedingly by the selec
tion therefrom of the choice prices by the Mussaleem and Custom Master at their own
prices.
* December 1809.