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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [195] (212/578)
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 — Telegraphs — NOS. XXXIII—1901 AND XXXIV—1905. 195
line between Tehran and Kashan, and the expenses of procuring, transporting
and putting up this wire will he borne by the Persian Government in the manner
provided by Articles II and IV of this Convention.
Article XI.
The following articles of the Telegraph Convention of 1872 shall apply to this
line, viz., Articles 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 17.
Article XII.
This Convention shall remain in force until the 1st January 1925 or for such
longer period as the debt due by Persia for the construction of the line remains
unpaid, and at such date it may, if necessary, be renewed or revised but it shall
be competent for the British Government at any time before the expiry of this
Convention, on giving six months’ notice to hand over the line in its existing conai-
tion to the Persian Government and to withdraw its officers and employes from
the country, ceasing from that date to have any further connection with thio
Persian telegraph. But in this case the Persian Government shall be free from
any further payment on account of the construction of the line.
The ratifications of the present Convention shall be exchanged at Tehran within
five months or sooner, if practicable.
Done at Tajrisch in quadruplicate this sixteenth day of the month of August in the
year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one.
Arthur H. Hardinge.
Nasrullah.
No. XXXIV.
Agreement respecting construction of Telegraph line from Henjam to Bunder
Abbas,- —1905.
His Excellency the Mushir-ed-Dowleh, Minister for Foreign Affairs of His
Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia, and Sir Arthur Hardinge, K.C.B., His
Britannic Majesty’s
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'.
at Tehran
representing the Indo-European Telegraph Department of the Government of
India, on the other part duly authorised thereto by their respective Governments,
have concluded the following Agreement:
1 The Persian Government having resolved to construct a line of telegraph
to connect the Indo-European Telegraph station at Henjam with Bunder Abbas
across Kishm, and His Majesty’s Government having authorised the Indo-European
Telegraph Department to provide the engineers and materials necessary for the
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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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