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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎188] (205/578)

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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188 PERSIA— Telegraphs —NO. XXXI—1872.
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to any portion of the revenue from transit traffic over the line from Julfa (on the
Russian frontier) to Bushire. This revenue shall therefore be divided between
the English Government and the Indo-European Company in such manner as
they themselves may decide, and the accounts between them shall be settled
without the intervention of the Persian Government.
As regards international messages originating or terminating in Persia, the
Persian Government agrees to cede to the English Governmept, for a term of
three (3) years, the entire Persian terminal tax on such messages in considera
tion of a fixed annual payment of two thousand (2,000) tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. to be paid to Persia
by the English Government. After the three (3) years, the Persian Government
shall be free either to accept an annual payment calculated on the basis of two-
thirds of the average terminal receipts or to claim two-thirds of the receipts from
all bond fide terminal messages. The Persian Government agrees to leave it to.
the sense of justice of the English Government to decide which are bond fide ter
minal messages and winch are to be considered as transit messages, being for
warded to Persia evidently for the purpose of being re-transmitted to other countries.
During the time this Treaty remains in force, the Persian Government engages
itself to oppose at the International Telegraph conferences any alteration in the
present transit and terminal rates, unless a previous agreement with the English
Government shall have been made.
Article 9.
The English Administration being responsible for the correct transmission
of all international messages and for the adjustment'of the accounts will collect
the payments for these messages according to the rates of the prevailing inter
national Telegraph Convention.
All international messages originating in Persia shall, before transmission,
be registered and sealed by officials appointed by the Persian Government. In
ternational messages terminating in Persia shall be delivered to the addressees
through the agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the same officials, who shall be bound to give receipts for
such messages to the English Administration.
The Persian Administration shall, at all times, have free access to the Eng
lish Offices and to all records connected with international traffic. International
messages are those which pass over the wires of more than one State.
Article 10.
The maintenance of the line, including repairs and the appointment, control
and payment of the line guards, shall remain in the hands of the English Director
and staff.
As a contribution towards the expenditure under this head the Persian Gov
ernment will pay to the English Director the sum of one thousand (1,000) tomam
annually, this amount being deducted from the royalty due to Persia by the
Indo-European Telegraph Company as hereinbefore described in Article

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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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