‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎32] (355/578)

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PJbiUSlA—APPENDIX NO. VII-1828.
to their homes. The high contracting
parties will adopt the same course
in regard to all prisoners of war,
and all .Russian and Persian subjects
reciprocally found in captivity who
may not have been restored within
the term above mentioned either by
reason of the distance at which they
may have been, or owing to any other
cause or circumstances whatever.
The two Governments expressly re
serve to themselves the unlimited
right of claiming them at any time,
and they bind themselves to restore
them reciprocally, as soon as they
shall present themselves, or shall
be claimed.
Article 14.
The high contracting parties shall
not demand the surrender of refugees
and deserters who may have passed
under their respective dominations
before or during the war.
With a view, however, to prevent
mutually the prejudicial consequences
which might result from the communi
cation which some of these refugees
may maintain with their old com
patriots, the Persian Government
engages not to tolerate within its
possessions situated between the
A raxes and the line formed by the
river called Tehan, the Lake of
Aroomiah, the River of Djikaton,
and by the river named Hizri Ozane,
as far as its confluence with the
Caspian Sea, the presence of the
individuals who shall be designated
by name 110 % or who may be so
indicated herealter.
His Majesty the Emperor of all
the Russias promises equally on
his part not to permit Persian
leurs foyers. Les hautes parties con
tractantes en useront de meme a 1’egard
de tons les prisonniers de guerre, et de
tous les sujets Russes et Persans recipro-
quement tombes en captivite, qui
n’auraient pas ete restitues dans le
terme susmentionne, soit en raison de
Teloignement ou ils seraient trouves,
soit par tout autre cause ou circonstance.
Les deux Gouvernements se reservent
expressement le droit illimite de les
reclamer en tout terns, et ils s’obligent
a les restituer mutuellement a mesure
qu’ils se presen teront, ou a mesure
qu’ils les reclameront.
Article 14,
Les hautes parties contractantes
n’exigeront pas 1’extradition des
transfuges efc deserteurs qui auraient
passe sous leurs dominations respec^
tives avant ou pendant la guerre.
Toutefois, pour prevenir les conse
quences mutuellement prejudiciables
qui pourraient resulter des intelli
gences que quelques-uns de ces trans
fuges chercheraient a entretenir avec
leurs anciens compatriotes ou vassaux,
le Gouvernement Persan s’engage a ne
pas tolerer dans ses possessions, situees
entre TAraxe et la ligne formee par la
riviere dite Tehan, par le lac One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees d’Oroumiah,
par la riviere dite Djikaton, et par la
riviere dite Hizri Ozane, jusqu’a son
confluent dans la mer Caspienne, la
presence des individus, qui lui seront
nominalement designes maintenant ou
qui seraient signales a Tavenir.
Sa Majeste TEmpereur de toutes les
Russies promet egalement de son cote
de ne pas permettre que les transfuges