"مجموعة من المعاهدات والالتزامات والسندات المتعلقة بالهند والدول المجاورة" [‎٧‎٦] (٥٧٨/٣٩٩)

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PERSIA- APPENDIX NO. XX—1888.
APPENDIX No. XX.—[See page 18.]
Translation of a Proclamation of the Shah of Persia respecting the Protec
tion of the Lives and Properties of Persian Subjects. Tehran, 26 th
May. 1888.
Official Government Proclamation.
The Great and Most High God having made our holy person the source of justice
and benevolence, and the executor of his command and power, and having especially
entrusted the protection of the lives and property of the subjects of the united
countries of Persia into our well-skilled hands, in thanksgiving for this great bounty
we consider it incumbent on us in the execution of this trust not to draw back from
or evade the distribution of justice and the protection of the lives and property of
the people of this country from the encroachment of oppressors, and (we consider
it incumbent upon us) to so properly endeavour and persevere that the people be
masters of their lives and property, in order that they may, with the greatest ease
and prosperity, engage themselves in enterprises which are the basis of civilization
and the source of wealth ; therefore, for the information and assurance of all the
subjects and people, in order to make them acquainted with the watchfulness,
tempered with justice, of our sovereign mind by the issue of this great Proclamation
and noble Address, we make it generally known to the people of the united countries
of Persia that all our subjects, as regards their lives and property, are free and inde
pendent, so that they may, without fear or apprehension, exercise any right of
proprietorship they like over their own belongings, and any enterprise for which the
combination of money and formation of companies for the construction of works
and roads and any branch of the branches of civilization and wealth which they
may undertake will give us satisfaction and pleasure, and the protection of such is
our duty, and no one shall have the right or power to lay hands upon, or take
possession of, or interfere with the life or property, or punish or chastise the
subjects of the Persian Government, except it be in execution of the religious and
civil laws.
Month of Ramazan-ul-Mubareh 1303 {May 1888).
Translation of a Tirman of the Shah of Persia for the execution of the foregoing
Proclamation. May 1888 .
. . ( Tlle Flrmari 9 contain the same words as the Proclamation, with an additional
injunction, of which the following addressed to the Veliahd, or Heir-Apparent, at
labriz, is a specimen.)
It is commanded that the Dawn of the Soul’s Light, the Key of the Gates of
ic ory, t e ight of the Eyes, of the Khilafet and Kingdom, Resplendence of th