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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎255] (272/578)

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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AFGHANISTAN—NOS. X AND XI—1893.
255
III.
In order to elucidate and complete Clause III of Protocol No. 4 of -<^n!r
1887, the Commissioners have established that the Afghans shall not be able to
take off water from the river Kushk, north of the ruins of the Chahil Dukhteran
bridge (Pul-i-Khishti), for irrigation by means of either new or disused or closed
canals, the Afghans shall not have the right to carry on, below the parallel of Chahil
Dukhteran Frontier Pillar No. 23, for irrigation, the branches of the canals which
take off from the Kushk south of the ruins of the Chahil Dukhteran bridge (Pul-
i-Khishti), but they shall have the right to make use of the said branches to irri
gate their cultivation as far as the parallel of the Chahil Dukhteran Frontier Pillar
No. 23.
The Afghans shall also have the right to the free use for irrigation or any other
purpose of the waters of springs which exist on the left bank of the Kushk bet
ween the hills and the river to the south of the Karatappa Frontier Pillar No. 22,
up to the points where these springs reach the stream of the river.
To the south of the ruins of the Chahil Dukhteran bridge (Pul-i-Khishti) the
Afghans have full rights to all the water of the Kushk and. shall not be subject
to any restriction whatever.
IV.
The want of water in the Kushk, no matter from whatever cause arising, pro
vided that the Afghans maintain the stipulations of Clause III of Protocol No. 4
of July 1887, and the arrangements above set forth cannot give cause for
further claims on the part of the Russian authorities.
Chas. E. Yate, Lieut.-Col. V. Ignatiew.
II. D. Napier, Lieut. L. Artamonofp.
Seal of Mahmud Khan.
No. XI.
Agreement between His Highness Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, G.C.S.I., Amir
of Afghanistan and its Dependencies, on the one part, and Sir Henry
Mortimer Durand, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., Foreign Secretary to the Govern
ment of India, representing the Government of India on the other part,
—1893.
Whereas the British Government has represented to His Highness the Amir
that the Russian Government presses for the literal fulfilment of the Agreement
of 1873 between Russia and England by which it was decided that the river Oxus
should form the northern boundary of Afghanistan from Lake Victoria (M ood s
Lake) or Sarikul on the east to the junction of the Kokcha with the Oxus, and
whereas the British Government considers itself bound to abide by the terms
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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)
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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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