"مجموعة من المعاهدات والالتزامات والسندات المتعلقة بالهند والدول المجاورة" [‎٢‎٣‎٥] (٥٧٨/٢٥٢)

AFGHANISTAN—NO. Ill—1839.
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No. III.
Treaty of Friendship and Alliance between the Honourable East India
Company and His Majesty Shah Kamran of Herat, concluded on the
thirteenth day of August 1839, corresponding with the second day of Jem-
madee-oos-sani 1255 a.h., by Major E. D’Arcy Todd, Envoy from the
Governor-General of India on the one part, and His Majesty Shah Kam
ran for himself, his heirs and successors, on the other.
Article 1.
There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between the British Govern
ment and His Majesty Shah Kamran, his heirs and successors.
Article 2.
The British Government recognises the government of Herat, as at present
constituted, as being vested in His Majesty Shah Kamran, his heirs and succes
sors, and the British Government engages not to interfere in any way with the
internal administration of His Majesty’s dominions.
Article 3.
With a view to strengthen and perpetuate the concord subsisting between
the British Government and Shah Kamran, an accredited British Agent shall
always reside at the Court of His Majesty ; in like manner, should His Majesty
see fit, he will depute an accredited Agent to reside at the Durbar of the Governor-
General.
Article 4.
The British Government undertakes to provide His Majesty Shah Kamran
with loans of money, with officers, and with all other means that may be found
necessary for the protection of His Majesty’s person and country, and to assist
in the defence of His Majesty’s right and interests against all foreign encroach
ment to the utmost of its ability.
Article 5.
With a view to enable the British Government efficiently to fulfil the obliga
tion contained in the preceding Article, and to obviate all just ground of com
plaint on the part of other powers, His Majesty Shah Kamran agrees to prohibit
for ever the practice of kidnapping or seizing human beings for the purpose of
selling them into slavery by any of His Majesty s subjects ; and should there be
any persons now in a state of bondage within the limits of His Majesty s authority,
who may have been enslaved in the manner above-mentioned, His M ajesty en
gages to exert his utmost endeavours to procurs the liberation of such persons.