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'Assurances, Undertakings and Agreements, Etc., Made by Certain Chiefs and Khans of Southern Persia with the British Government and Certain British Trading Companies' [‎17] (27/104)

The record is made up of 1 volume (52 folios). It was created in 1926. It was written in English, Persian and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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to attract the carriage of goods and travel
lers, and to increase commerce, the con-
cessionnaire, in all that concerns the road
and the carrying out of his various works,
as well as regards the transport service,
will have the right of being protected by
the Government, and the Governors of the
districts and provinces through which the
road passes will receive formal orders to
facilitate the execution of the conces-
sionnaire's engagements and to protect the
road and all the property of the conces-
sionnaire by force of arms if necessary.
Article 4. —The concessionnaire shall
have the right of calling in foreign capital
and of procuring the assistance of foreign
employes and engineers for the works of
the road.
Article 5. —The concessionnaire shall
have the right, specially recognised by His
Majesty the Shah, of pledging the building
works of the road, as well as the houses,
kanats, watercourses, etc., and the material
and stock of the transport service to the
capitalists who shall have lent money for
the building of the said road, the material,
houses, etc., as a guarantee for the security
of their funds.
The present concession shall not be
withdrawn for sixty years, and until the
capitalists have been fully reimbursed for
the sums they have advanced, and the
works of the road are completed. The
road must be completed in 2J years.*
Article 6. —The works shall begin six
months after the issue of the firman A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’). , other
wise the said concession shall be null and
void.
Article 7, —One year after the transport
service has been started the concessionnaire
shall pay at the end of each year a sum
equal to 20 per cent, of the net profits of
the working to the Government, and the
Government shall not levy any land or
other tax on the cultivated ground or on
the produce of this ground, or on the
buildings raised for the works or any of
the moveable or immoveable property of
the concessionnaire, and shall further
admit, free of duty, all machines and
material necessary for the working of the
road, but the Customs House officers may
examine this material in order to ascertain
whether it is in fact destined for the work
ing of the road.
Article 8. —The concessionnaire shall
carry the Imperial mails at half rate, and
as regards the transport of goods and pas
sengers shall guarantee that no person is
given preference to another, but shall
• bubje-iuently extended to 27th May 1913,

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This volume is a printed report, published by the Government of India Press (Calcutta: 1926), constituting a collection of assurances, undertakings and agreements made by chiefs and Khans of Southern Persia with the British Government and trading companies between 1898 and 1922. The volume is marked 'Confidential' on the front cover and contains a table of contents (folios 4-5). The agreements, some appearing in both Persian and English, are ordered by serial number and they include:

  • No. 1: Undertaking Given by Certain Notables of Luristan in regard to the Construction of Cart Road through Part of their Territory (8 June 1911);
  • No. 2: Correspondence regarding Right of Option Granted to Persian Railway Syndicate by Persian Government for Construction of Certain Railway Lines (9 February 1913, 4 March 1913, and 10 January 1920);
  • No. 3: Memorandum Regarding Concessions for Roads and Railways in South-West Persia up to 1917 (1917);
  • No. 4: Persian Transport Company's Concession for the Construction of a Commercial Road Between Ahwaz and Tehran and the Establishment of a Transport Service thereon (5 August 1890);
  • No. 5: Compensation for Loss of Pilotage Fees, Amounting to Ts. 2000 per annum to be paid to Haidar Khan, Hayat Daudi [Ḥaydar Khān Ḥayāt Dāwūdī], C I E (12 February 1920 and 26 February 1920);
  • No. 6: Agreement Concluded between Messrs. Lynch Bros. and certain Bakhtiari Chiefs for the Construction and Maintenace of a Road from Ahwaz to Isfahan and Shushter [Shushtār] to Isfahan (3 March 1898);
  • No. 7: D'Arcy Oil Concession (28 May 1901);
  • No. 7(a): Translation of the D'Arcy Oil Concession (28 May 1901);
  • No. 8: Agreement Between D'Arcy Syndicate and the Bakhtiari (15 November 1905);
  • No. 8(a): Refusal of Persian Government to Recognize Agreement between the D'Arcy Syndicate and the Bakhriaris (12 January 1906);
  • No. 8(b): Notes on the Bakhtiari Agreement of November 15 1905 (20 October 1906);
  • No. 9: Agreement between Mr W[illiam] K[nox] D'Arcy and the Kili Sayyeds (1 October 1906);
  • No. 10: Agreement between the Oil Company and H. E. Shahab-Es-Sultaneh, Ilbegi [Shihāb al-Sulṭānah Īlbagī] of the Bakhtiar (25 March 1907);
  • No. 11: Land Agreement between the Oil Company and the Bakhtiari Khans (15 May 1911);
  • No. 11(a): Power-of-Attorney Appointing Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Muhtesham [ Sardār Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Muḥtasham] and Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Bahadur [ Sardār Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Bahādur] as Agents of the Bakhtiari Khans (1910);
  • No. 11(b): The Bakhtiari Khans' Orders to their Tribesmen Regarding the Oil Company's Employees (May 1911);
  • No. 11(c): Undertaking made by the Bakhtiari Khans regarding the Kili Sayyeds (May 1911);
  • No. 12: Agreement for Protection of Pipe-Line (28 April 1911);
  • No. 13: Supplementary Agreement between Mr W K D'Arcy and the Kili Sayyeds (10 February 1911);
  • No. 14: Agreement between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and Parwiz Khan, Gunduzlu [Parvīz Khān Gunduzlū] (20 February 1911);
  • No. 15: Agreement between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Wali of Pusht-i-Kuh (19 September 1919);
  • No. 16: Land Aquisition Agreement between Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Bakhiairi Khans (20 April 1921);
  • No. 17: Agreement between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and Haidar Khan, C I E, of Hayat Daud (6 October 1921, 22 October 1921, and 13 November 1921);
  • No. 18: Agreement between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Kashkuli [Kashkūlī] Khans (14 October 1921);
  • No. 19: Agreement between Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Ilkhani The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran. of the Qashgais (20 May 1922).
Extent and format
1 volume (52 folios)
Arrangement

The assurances, agreements and undertakings compiled in this volume are arranged according to serial number from 1 to 18. These appear roughly in chronological order.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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