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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎198] (215/578)

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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198
PERSIA— Telegraphs —N 0. XXXV—1913.
mentioned line from the date of the commencement of the said work up to the year
1945 A.D.
After the completion of the said construction, and when the total expenditure
is known, the sum of £5,000 will be deducted from the total expenditure, together
with £300 per annum, which is due by the British Government, as mentioned
in this same article, and will go towards the capital account, and whatever balance
still remains outstanding will, with the approval of the Ministry of the Persian
Telegraphs, be due by the Persian Government to the British Government, and is
to be paid by the former Government to the latter up to the year 1945 A.D.
Article 3.
In return for the expenditure mentioned in Article 2 which the British Govern
ment pays, gratis, for the construction and maintenance of the said line, the Persian
Government agrees that the period of the following agreements shall be extended
and remain in force up to the 1st January 1945 A.D., viz., the Telegraph Conven
tion of the 2nd April 1868 A.D. ; the Telegraph Convention of the 2nd December
1372 A.D. ; the Telegraph Convention of the 16th August 1901 A.D.
Article 4.
The salaries of the telegraph clerks and other employes, such as gholams,
fecrashes, inspector, battery men, cost of instrument and rent of telegraph offices^
is to be defrayed by the Persian Telegraph Administration.
Article 5.
In order to ensure the proper and continual working of the above-mentioned
lines the Director of the Telegraph Department of the exalted British Government
wdl appoint an inspector, with the approval of the Ministry of the Persian Tele
graphs, for the maintenance and safeguard of the line up to 1945 A.D. The gholams
who are to safeguard the line, and who are Persian subjects, are to be under the
orders of the said inspector, and the pay and allowance of the inspector will be
fixed by the Ministry of Telegraphs in consultation with the Director of the Tele
graph Department of the exalted British Government prior to the commencement
of the work.
Article 6.
The Persian Government i.e., Minister of Telegraphs, has to appoint a Persian
clerk at all the principal stations for all time to be conversant in foreign languages
to deal with international traffic.
Article 7.
The Persian Government agrees not to appoint in the telegraphoffices of the
above-mentioned lines, without the consent of the Director of the Telegraph

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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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