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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [53] (70/578)
The record is made up of 1 volume (289 folios). It was created in 1933. It was written in English 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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PERSIA—NOS. IV—1801 AND V—1809.
53
Additional Article.
It is further written in sincerity that on iron, lead, steel, broadcloth, and purpetts
that are exclusively the property of the English Government, no duties whatever
shall be taken from the sellers ; a duty not exceeding one per cent, to be levied
upon the purchasers. And the duties, imports, and customs which are at this
period established in Persia and India (on other goods) are to remain fixed and not
to be increased.
The high in rank Hajee Kulleel Khan Mullick-oo-Tijjar is charged and entrusted
with the arrangement and settlement of the remaining points relative to commerce.
John Malcolm, Envoy.
Seal of Hajee Ibrahim Khan.
No. V.
Preliminary Treaty concluded by Sir Harford Jones with the Shah of
Persia in 1809.
In the name of Him who is ever necessary, who is ali sufficient, who is everlasting, and who is the
only Protector.
In these times distinguished by felicity, the excellent ambassador Sir Harford
Jones, Baronet, Member of the Honourable Imperial Ottoman Order of the Crescent,
has arrived at the royal city of Teheran in quality of ambassador from His Majesty
the King of England (titles), bearing His Majesty’s credential letter, and charged
with full powers munited with the Great Seal of England empowering him to
strengthen the friendship and consolidate the strict union subsisting between the
high States of England and Persia. His Majesty the King of Persia (titles), there
fore, by a special
Firman
A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
delivered to the said ambassador, has appointed the
most excellent and noble Lords, Mirza Mahomed Sheffee, qualified with the title
of Moatemmed-ed-dowlah, his first vizier, and Hajee Mahomed Hossein Khan;
qualified with the title of Ameen-ed-dowlah, one of the ministers of Record, to be
his plenipotentiaries to confer and discuss with the aforesaid ambassador of his
Britannic Majesty all matters and affairs touching the formation and consolidation
of friendship, alliance, and strict union between the two high States, and to arrange
and finally conclude the same for the benefit and advantage of both kingdoms.
In consequence whereof, after divers meetings and discussions, the aforesaid pleni
potentiaries have resolved that the following Articles are for the benefit and ad
vantage of both the high States, and hereafter to be accordingly for ever observed :—
Article 1.
That as some time will be required to arrange and form a definite Treaty of
alliance and friendship between the two high States, and as the circumstances of
the world make it necessary for something to be done without loss of time, it is
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The volume is the fifth edition of volume 13 of a collection of historic treaties, engagements and sanads (charters) relating to India and its neighbouring countries, namely Persia and Afghanistan. This volume, originally compiled by Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Under Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, was revised in 1930 and published in 1933 by the Manager of Publications in Delhi, under the authority of the Government of India.
Part 1 of the volume contains treaties and engagements relating to Persia and dating from between 12 April 1763 and 10 May 1929. The treaties refer to: trade agreements; foreign relations; prohibition and suppression of the slave trade; sovereignty and status of Persian regions; frontier negotiations; foreign concessions; telegraph lines. Part 2 of the volume contains treaties and engagements relating to Afghanistan and dating from between 17 June 1809 and 6 May 1930. The treaties relate to: foreign relations; the establishment of boundaries and frontier negotiations; peace treaties; commercial relations; import of arms. A number of appendices follow part 2, which contain the text of treaties relating to both Persia and Afghanistan.
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- 1 volume (289 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged into two parts covering Persia and Afghanistan respectively, as are the appendices at the end of the volume. Each part is divided into a number of chapters, identified by Roman numerals, and arranged chronologically, from the earliest treaties to the most recent. At the beginning of each part is a general introduction to the treaties and engagements that follow.
There is a contents page at the front of the volume (ff 4-8) which lists the geographical regions and treaties. The contents pages refers to the volume’s pagination system. There is a subject index, arranged alphabetically, at the end of the volume (ff 277-87) which also refers to the volume’s pagination system.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside 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 (except for the front cover where the folio number is on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- front, back, front-i, i-r, i-v, ii-r, ii-v, 1:10, 1:306, 1:230, 1:22, iii-r, iii-v, back-i
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