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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎273] (290/578)

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—NO. XIX—1896.
273
4 . Le Gouvernement de Sa Majeste 1’Empereur de Russie et le Gouvernement
de Sa Majeste Britannique s’engagent a s’abstenir de I’exercice de tout controle
ou influence politique, le premier au sud, le second au nord, de la dite ligne de
demarcation.
5. Le Gouvernement de Sa Majeste Britannique s’engage a ce que le territoire
compris dans la sphere d’influence Anglaise entre le Hindou-Kouch et la ligne
partant de 1’extremite orientale du lac One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees Victoria et rejoignant la frontiere Chinoise,
fasse partie des Etats de TEmir d’Afghanistan, que ce territoire ne soit pas annexe
a la Grande-Bretagne, et qu’il n’y sera etabli ni postes militaires ni ouvrages for
tifies.
L’execution du present arrangement est subordonne k I’evacuation par
FEmir d’Afghanistan de tous les territoires occupes par Son Altesse sur la rive
droite du Piandj, et a Tevacuation par I’Emir de Bokhara de la partie du Derwaz
situee au midi de TOxus, les Gouvernements de Sa Majeste I’Empereur de Russie
et de Sa Majeste Britannique etant d’accord pour employer a cet effet leur in
fluence respective aupr^s des deux Emirs.
J’ai. etc.,
Staal.
No. XIX.
Translation of Joint Agreement executed by the joint British and Afghan
Commissioners of the Indo-Afghan Boundary Commission, 1896.
We, the undersigned, Commissioners, deputed by our respective Governments
to demarcate the boundary hue between the territories of the Government of India
and of His Highness the Amir of Afghanistan, westwards, from new Chaman to
the Persian border, have arrived at the following mutual agreement regarding
that boundary fine :—
Clause No. The boundary line to which we have mutually agreed runs
from boundary pillar No. XCII, erected at a point half-way between the new
Chaman railway station and the Mian Baidak hill, in a straight line in the direction
of the Ghwazha outpost. This line has been marked by boundary pillars Nos. XCII,
XCIII, XCIV, XCV, XCVI, XCVII, XCVIII, XCIX, C, Cl, CII, CHI, CIV, cv,
CVI, CVII, CVIII, CIX, CX, CXI, CXII, CXIII, CXIV to CXIV (1), which has
been erected a few yards on the west, i.e., Afghan side of the road commonly
known as the Sina Lar which goes from Ghwazha towards Chaman. The boundary
hne, leaving this road within British territory, runs a few yards at a short distance
to the west of, i.e., on the Afghan side of, that road to boundary pillar No. CXV
which has been erected at a point at a distance of half a mile on the Chaman side
of the Ghwazha outpost. From here the boundary hne runs in a straight line
to pillar No. CXVI which has been erected at a point half mile due west of the
Ghwazha outpost. Thence it runs in a straight line to boundary pillar N o. CXVIL
which has been erected at a point half mile south of the Ghwazha outpost and

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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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