"مجموعة من المعاهدات والالتزامات والسندات المتعلقة بالهند والدول المجاورة" [‎٦‎٨] (٥٧٨/٨٥)

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PERSIA—NO. XIII—1841.
the renowned and just Sovereigns of the two everlasting States have day by
day and at all times attended to and observed the whole of its Articles and
stipulations, and have caused the subjects of both Governments to enjoy all its
benefits and advantages except the Treaty of commerce, which, in the preamble
of the Treaty of the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, the two
Governments engaged to conclude, and which up to this time, for certain reasons,
has been postponed and left unfinished, therefore in this fortunate year, that all
the stipulations of the auspicious Treaty may be fulfilled, His Majesty the Shah of
Persia has appointed His Excellency Hajee Mirza Abul Hossein Khan, His Majesty’s
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to be his sole plenipotentiary, and Her
Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and Sovereign of India, has
appointed Sir John McNeil, Knight, Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order
of the Bath, Her Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to the Court of Persia, to be her sole plenipotentiary, and the said plenipotentiaries
having concluded a commercial Treaty in these two Articles, have annexed and
united it to the original Treaty that by the aid of God it may henceforth be
observed between the two Governments and be a source of advantage to the sub
jects of both.
Article 1.
The merchants of the two mighty States are reciprocally permitted and allowed
to carry into each other’s territories their goods and manufactures of every de
scription, and to sell or exchange them in any part of their respective countries, and
on the goods which they import or export custom duties shall be levied, that is to
say, on entering the country the same amount of custom duties shall be levied once
for all that is levied on merchandize imported by the merchants of the most favoured
European nations, and at the time of going out of the country the same amount of
custom duties which is levied on the merchandize of merchants of the most favoured
European nations shall be levied from the merchants, subjects of the high con
tracting parties, and except this, no claim shall be made upon the merchants of
the two States in each other’s dominions on any pretext or under any denomination,
and the merchants or persons connected with or dependant upon the high contract-
ing parties in each other’s dominions mutually, shall receive the same aid and
support and the same respect which is received by the subjects of the most favoured
nations.
Article 2.
As it is necessary, for the purpose of attending to the affairs of the merchants
of the two parties, respectively, that from both Governments commercial Agents
should be appointed to reside in stated places, it is therefore arranged that two
commercial Agents on the part of the British Government shall reside, one in the
capital and one in Tabreez, and in those places only, and on this condition, that he
who shall reside at Tabreez, and he alone, shall be honoured with the privileges of
Consul General; and as for a series of years a Resident of the British Government