ملف ١٩١٦//٢٩٠٢ "المعاهدات والاتفاقيات بين الحكومة البريطانية وحُكام الساحل العربي للخليج الفارسي" [ظ‎‎٥‎٢] (٤٤٨/١١٥)

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COPY OE EAEMAN.
Seal of Mozaffar-ed-Din Shah.
That, whereas the benignant and royal attention is always directed and set
upon the tranquility of the towns, the ease of the people, and the enhancement
of improvement and agriculture, therefore, in view of the good services of His
Excellency Shaikh Khazal Khan, Moezz-es-Sultanah, Sardar-i-Arfa, and of his
forefathers and grandfathers, which are always under the royal consideration,
and (of the fact that) he has always delighted and pleased the royal mind by
his good services and complete straightforwardness (and) in order to bestow
kingly graces and royal favours we have, in this auspicious year Pars il lelt
and granted to him, as perpetual property the whole of Hindijan and Dohmulla,
which are a part of his jurisdiction, together with the lands on the east ot
Karun which are the place of his cultivation, so that he may with the utmost
hopefulness and extreme zeal busy himself in augmenting the improvement of
those two places and only pay the usual annual revenue to the Highest Gov
ernment. And the present and the future Governors of Arabistan will not
have the right to demand a single cent in addition to the usual annual icvenuc,
and the Sardar-i-Arfa also will not have the right to sell or transfer the said
properties to foreign subjects. He should with the utmost efficient endeavours
and ample exertions use precautions towards extending agriculture and
conducing ease to the subjects more than before; and he is permitted and
empowered to exercise in the said localities the possessory rights of ownership
of every kind. The Government will not have the right to take possession
thereof.
It is hereby ordered that the respected Mustaufis (Government Secretaries)
should register and record a copy of the august Earman and consider it their
duty to do so.
Dated the month of Shawwal Pars il 1320.
Seals on reverse :—
Atabeg-i-Azam.
Vazir-i-Daftar.
Mushir-ed-Daulah.