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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎40] (363/578)

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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PERSIA—APPENDIX NO. VII—l&fc
the Dufter, that is to say, in the
Supreme Court of the Shah at Tabriz
or at Teheran, likewise in the presence
of a Dragoman of the Mission or of
the Russian Consulate.
Article 8 .
In case of murder or any other
crime committed among Russian sub
jects, the investigation and decision
of the case shall be within the exclu
sive province of the Minister, or
Charge d’Afiaires, or Consul of Russia
in virtue of the jurisdiction delegated
to them over their own countrymen.
If a Russian subject should happen
to be implicated with individuals of
another nation in a criminal suit, he
shall not be prosecuted nor molested
in any way without proofs of his
participation in the crime ; and even
in that case, as in the one in which a
Russian subject should be charged
with direct culpability, the tribunals
of the country shall not be competent
to proceed with the trial and judg
ment of the crime except in the pre
sence of a delegate of the Mission or
the Russian Consulate, and if there
should be none on the spot in which
the crime has been committed, the
local authorities shall take steps to
send the delinquent to a place where
there is a Consul or a constituted
Russian Agent. The evidence both
for and against the accused shall be
faithfully taken by the Hakim and
by the Judge of the place, and attested
by their signature; transmitted in
this form to the place where the offence
is to be tried ; this evidence shall
constitute a record or authentic sum
mary of the proceedings, unless the
accused should clearly demonstrate
d’un Drogman de la Mission ou du
Consulat de Russie.
Article 8 .
En cas de meurtre ou d’autre crime
commis entre sujets Russes, Fexamen et
la decision du cas seront du ressort
exclusif du Ministre, ou du Charge
d’Affaires, ou du Consul de Russie, en
vertu de juridiction qui leur est deferee
sur leurs nationaux. Si un sujet Russe
se trouve implique avec des individus
d’un autre nation dans un proces cxi-
minel, il ne pourra etre poursuivi, ni
inquiete d’aucune maniere a moins de
preuves de sa participation au crime, et
dans ce cas meme comme dans celui ou
un sujet Russe serait prevenu de cul-
pabilite directe, les tribunaux du pays
ne pourront proceder a la connaissance
et au jugement du crime qu’en presence
d’un delegue de la Mission ou du Consulat
de Russie, et s’il ne s’en trouve pas sur
les lieux ou le debt ete commis, les
autorites locales feront transporter le
delinquant la ou il y a un Consul ou
un agent Russe constitue. Les te-
nioignages a charge et a decharge du
prevenu seiont fid element recueillis par
le Hakim et par le Juge de Fendroit et
revetus de leur signature ; transmis dans
cette forme la ou le debt devra etre juge
ces temoignages deviendront des docu
ments ou precis authentiques du proces
a moins que Faccuse n’en demontre
evidemment la faussete. Lorsque le
prevenu aura ete dument convaincu et
que la sentence aura ete prononcee, le
delinquant sera remis au Ministre, Charge
d’Affaires, ou Consul de Sa Majeste
Tmperiale, qui le renverra en Russie pour

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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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