"مذكرة بشأن الحدود بين المحمرة وتركيا". [ظ‎‎٣‎٧] (٨٢/٧٤)

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Translation of the New Treaty of Erzeroum (1847).
(Made by Mr. Redhouse at Erzeroum.)
Article 1.
THE two Mussulman States agree to abandon totally the pecuniary claims of
both parties which they have hitherto been raising against each other. But no
invalidity shall acme from this agreement to the convention contained in the fourth
article for the settlement of particular claims.
Article 2.
The State of Persia undertakes that all the level lands of the province of Zohaub r
i.e., the lauds of the western part of it, shall be abandoned to the State of Turkey.
The State of Turkey also undertakes that the lands of the eastern part of the
province of Zohaub, i.e., all the mountainous lands of it, with the valley of Kerind,
shall be abandoned to the State of Persia.
And the State of Persia firmly undertakes to give up all manner of claim in regard
to the town and province of Sulaymauneyya, and not at any time to meddle or interfere
in any way with the right of sovereignty which the State of Turkey possesses in the
said province.
And the State of Turkey also firmly undertakes that the town and seaport of
Mohammerah, and the island El Khizr, and the anchorage place, and also the lands of
the eastern bank, i.e., of the left side of the Shauttu-l-Arab, which are in the possession
of tribes acknowledgedly attached (subjected) to Persia, shall be in possession of the
State of Persia, in full sovereignty. And besides this, Persian ships shall have the
right to navigate the said river in full liberty, from the place where it flows into the
sea. as far as the point of junction of the frontiers of the two parties.
Article 3.
The two contracting parties undertake that by this treaty, all other territorial
claims being abandoned, engineers and commissioners shall be appointed without
delay on either part, so that they may draw the frontier between the two States in
conformity with the foregoing article.
Article 4.
The two parties have agreed that commissioners shall be appointed on both sides
without delay, to judge and decide in an equitable manner the questions of damages
which have happened to both sides since the acceptance of the friendly suggestions of
the two great mediating States that were written and communicated in the month of
Jamauzyu-'l-evval, 1261 ; and also of the pasturage dues from the year when they
fell into arrears.
Article 5.
The State of Turkey promises to make the fugitive Persian princes live at Broosa,.
and not to give permission for them to be absent from thence, or for them to-
correspond secretly with Persia.
And it is agreed on the part of the two exalted States that all other fugitives shall
be surrendered in accordance with the former treaty of Erzeroum.
Article 6.
Persian merchants shall pay the customs duties on their objects of commerce^,
either in money or in kind, according to their current price at the time, in the manner