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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎18] (341/578)

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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XV111
PERSIA—APPENDIX NO. V—1813.
Article 9.
The duties on Russian merchandise brought to Persian ports shall be in the
proportion of five hundred dinars (or 5 per cent.) on property of the value of one
toman 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. , which having been paid at one city the goods may be conveyed to any
part of Persia without any further demand of duty being made on any pretence
whatever. I he like percentage, and nothing more, will be paid on exports. The
import and export duties from Persian merchants in Russia will be levied at the
same rate.
Article 10.
On the arrival of goods at the seaport towns, or such as come by land-carriage
to the frontier towns of the two States, merchants shall be allowed to sell or
exchange their goods without the further permission of the Custom House Officers
because it is the duty of Custom House Officers to prevent all sorts of delay, in the
prosecution of trade, and to receive the King’s customs from the buyer or seller
as may be agreed between them.
Article 11.
After the signature of this Treaty the respective plenipotentiaries shall imme
diately announce the peace to the different frontier posts and order the suspension
of all further hostilities ; and two copies of this Treaty being taken with Persian
translations, they shall be signed and sealed by the respective plenipotentiaries,
and be exchanged. They must then be ratified by the signatures of their Majesties
o Russia and Persia, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in the course of
tbre.e months.
Done m the Russian camp, at the River Zuivan near Gulistan in Karabagh.
The 12th October 1813. The 29th Showal 1228 Higira.
NICHOLAS Ritischeuf.
Mirza Abul Hussein Khan.

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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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