"مجموعة من المعاهدات والالتزامات والسندات المتعلقة بالهند والدول المجاورة" [‎٤‎٣] (٥٧٨/٦٠)

PERSIA—NO. 1—1763.
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may have as many cannon mounted on it as they choose, but not to be larger than
six pounds bore ; and they may build factory houses in any part of the kingdom
they choose.
No customs shall be charged the English on any goods imported or exported
by them at Bu shire, or any other port in the Gulf of Persia, on condition that at
no time they import or export other persons’ goods in their names. They may
also send their goods customs free all over the kingdom of Persia ; and on what
goods they sell at Bushire, or elsewhere, the Shaik, or Governor, shall only charge
the merchants an export duty of three per cent.
No other European nation, or other persons, shall import any woollen goods
to any port on the Persian shore in the Gulf, but the English Company only ;
and should any one attempt to do it clandestinely, their goods shall be seized and
confiscated.
Should any of the Persian merchants, or others, become truly indebted to" the
English, the Shaik, or Governor of the place, shall oblige them to pay it ; but
should he fail in his duty herein the English Chief may do his own justice and act
as he pleases with the debtors to recover what owed him or them.
In all the kingdom of Persia the English may sell their goods to and buy from
whomever they judge proper ; nor shall the Governor, or Shaik, of any ports or
places, prevent their importing or exporting any goods whatever.
When any English ship or ships arrive at any ports in the Gulf of Persia, no
merchants shall purchase from them clandestinely, but with the consent and
knowledge of the English Chief there resident.
Should any English ship or vessel be drove on shore, unfortunately wrecked,
or otherwise lost in any part of the Gulf of Persia, the Shaiks, or Governors of the
adjacent places, shall not claim any share of the said wrecks, but shall assist the
English, all in their power, in saving the whole or any part of the vessel or cargo.
The English, and all those under their protection, in any part of the kingdom
of Persia, shall have the free exercise of their religion, without molestation from
any one.
Should soldiers, sailors or slaves desert from the English in any part of Persia,
they shall not be protected or encouraged, but, bond fide, delivered up, but not be
punished for the first or second offence.
Wherever the English may have a factory in Persia their linguist, brokers,
and all their other servants, shall be exempt from all taxes and impositions what
ever, and under their own command and justice, without any one interfering
therein.
Wherever the English are they shall have a spot of ground allotted them for a
burying ground ; and if they want a spot for a garden, if the king’s property,
it shall be given them gratis ; if belonging to any private person, they must pay a
reasonable price for it.
The house that formerly belonged to the English Company at Schyrash, I now
re-deliver to them, with the garden and water thereto belonging.