"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" [و‎‎٨‎٨] (٢٢٦/١٧٩)

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XXIV.
All differences or suits of law depending with the said nation,
Suit of law above 4,000 Aspers to which shall exceed the value of 4,000
be heard above. aspers, shall always be heard and decided
at our Imperial port.
XXV.
The English nation's Consul or Resident in any port of our domi-
No Consul to be imprisoned nor dis- nions being established by the Ambas-
missed, &c. sador, resident for the English nation,
our Ministers shall have no power to imprison or examine or seal up
their houses, nor to dismiss or displace them from their charge and office,
but in case of any difference or suit with the Consul there shall be made
a certificate to the Imperial port, to the end that the Ambassador may
protect and answer for them.
XXVI.
When any Englishman or other under their banner shall die in our
The goods of Englishmen dying not dominions, with their goods or faculties
to escheat, &c. or anything that belong unto them,
our escheaters, Caddees, or other Ministers upon pretence, they are goods
of the dead without any owner, shall not meddle, take, or seize any part
thereof, but they shall always be consigned and remaining to such other
English as the deceased shall by his testament assign, and if he died
intestate, then the English Consul shall take and receive his faculties
and goods, &c.; if there be no Consul, the English Resident there shall
take the possession, and in case there be neither Consul nor English the
said goods and faculties whatsoever shall be received into the custody
of the Caddee of that place, and having advised the English Ambassador
thereof, the said Caddee shall resign all the said goods unto such per
sons as the Ambassador shall send with commission to receive them.
XXVII.
All these privileges and other liberties granted to the English nation,
and those who come under their protection by divers Imperial commands,
whether before or after the date of these Imperial capitulations, shall be
always obeyed and observed, and shall always be understood and inter
preted in favour of the English nation according to the tenor and true
contents thereof.
XXVIII.
Neither the officer called the cassum or gatherer of the Caddee's
In cases of death the Caddee not to duties in case of death, nor the Caddee
med ^ le ' shall pretend or take of the said English
nation any kind of tenths or casmets or fee of division.
XXIX.
The Ambassador of the King of England or Consul residing in
No janizary, &c., to be imposed onus our dominion shall and may take into
without our consent. ger yi ce an y j an i zar y or interpre
ter at their own charge and choice, and no Janizary nor other our slaves
shall put themselves or intermeddle with their service against their
liking or consent.