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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [139] (156/578)
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—NO. XXIV—1919.
1S9
(6) The two Governments agree to the appointment forthwith of a joint Com
mittee of experts for the examination and revision of the existing Customs Tariff
with a view to its reconstruction on a basis calculated to accord with the legitimate
interests of the country and to promote its prosperity.
No. 2.
Agreement relating to loan of £2,000,000, at 7 per cent., redeemable in twenty years.
Preamble : Contract between the British Government and the Persian Gov
ernment with reference to an agreement concluded this day between the said
Governments. It is agreed as follows :—
Article 1.—The British Government grant a loan of £2,000,000 sterling to
the Persian Government, to be paid to the Persian Government as required in
such instalments and at such dates as may be indicated by the Persian Govern
ment after the British Financial Adviser shall have taken up the duties ol his
office at Tehran, as provided for in the aforesaid agreement.
Article 2.—The Persian Government undertakes to pay interest monthly at
the rate of 7 per cent, per annum upon sums advanced in accordance with article
1 up to 20th March 1921, and thereafter to pay monthly such amount as will
suffice to liquidate the principal sum and interest thereon at 7 per cent, per annum
in twenty years.
Article 3.—All the revenues and customs receipts assigned in virtue of the
contract of the 8th May 1911*, for the repayment of the loan of £1,250,000 are
assigned for the repayment of the present loan with continuity of all conditions
stipulated in the said contract, and with priority over all debts other than the
1911 loan and subsequent advances made by the British Government. In case
of insufficiency of the receipts indicated above the Persian Government under
takes to make good the necessary sums from other resources, and for this purpose
the Persian Government hereby assigns to the service of the present loan, and of
the other advances above-mentioned, in priority and with continuity of condi
tions stipulated in the aforesaid contract, the customs receipts of all other regions,
in so far as these receipts are or shall be at its disposal.
Article 4.—The Persian Government will have the right of repayment of the
present loan at any date out of the proceeds of any British loan which it mey
contract for.
Signed at Tehran, August 9, 1919.
* Article 5 of Contract between the Persian Government and the ' Imperial Bank of
Persia relating to the Persian Government five per cent, loan of £1,250,000 of
May 8, 1911.
5. The Imperial Government of Persia especially assigns to the service of the
loan, and as a first charge thereon, subject only to prior charges amour.ting to
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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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- ‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’
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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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