"مجلد I مذكرات بخصوص بلاد فارس والمنطقة الحدودية الشمالية الغربية. ١٩٠٥." [ظ‎‎٩‎٩] (٣١٠/٢٠٣)

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according to winch any refugees desirous of
returning to Kabul may tender their agree-
ments to the officials named and proceed to
Afghanistan at once without waiting for any
further formal orders.
The prohibition against the export of
horses from Afghanistan which was imposed
by the late Amir Abdur Rahman Khan
is still in force. For a year or so after his
death, advantage was taken of the some
what unsettled state of affairs to export horses
to a fairlv large extent, but the rules are now
being strictly enforced. Cases of smuggling
undoubtedly occur, with the connivance of
petty Afghan officials, but the number of
horses brought into India from Afghanistan is
smalL
As no steps had been taken to put in order
the British cemetery at Sherpur in accordance
with the promise made to Mr. Dane (see
Journal for April), the British Agent reminded
the Amir through Mustaufi Mirza Muhammad
Hussain, and, under His Highness’s orders, the
work was commenced on the 20th June.
It was mentioned in the Journal for
March last that, after the signature of the
Treaty on the 21st March, the Amir had
granted to the British Agent at Kabul an
improved position in Darbar, where he now
ranks as Brigadier instead of Colonel. The
Itmad-ud-Dowlah at the same time informed
the British Agent in writing that the Amir
bad ordered that the Agent’s escort and
servants might in future go about alone, and
that the Afghan guard should be removed
from his house if he so desired, but with this
offer was coupled a warning that if the Agency
establishment got into any trouble with the
people of the city, they would be called to
account in accordance with the Muhammadan
law. The British Agent after referring
to Government for orders addressed the Amir
on the 15th May asking that the guard over
his house should be withdrawn, and pointing
out that the question whether an offence
committed by a member of the Agency
establishment should be dealt with under the
Muhammadan law was not a new one, but
had been raised with the late Amir in 1893,
when the Government of India had contended
that it was a well established custom throughout
the world and recognised by all the Powers
that the person of the Envoy accredited by one
country to another, as well as those of the
members of his establishment, is inviolable
and immune from the jurisdiction of the
Courts of the country to which he is accre
dited. His Highness had then agreed to
abide by the universally recognised rules and
custom, and the Government of India felt
assured that His Highness the present Amir
would also abide by the same, and not seek to