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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎46] (369/578)

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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APPENDIX No. X.—page 77.]
Translation of Articles of Agreement concluded at Erzeroom and signed
by the Turco-Persian Commissioners on the 31st May 1847.
Article 1.
The two Mahomedan Governments will settle that all pecuniary claims ex
cepting those mentioned in the fourth article, shall be abandoned.
Article 2.
The town and port of Moharamerah, and the island of Khiza, with the anchorage,
as well as so much of the eastern bank of the Shut-el-Arab as is occupied by tribes
confessedly belonging to Persia, are to remain in the possession of Persia, besides
which Persians will enjoy the complete liberty of navigating the Shut-el-Arab,
from its mouth to the point of contact of the two frontiers. Soolumaneeyeh will
remain in the possession of Turkey. In regard to Nohab, the Persian Government
settles that all the mountainous portion with the pass of Kerrond on its eastern
part will be retained by it, and the plain of Nohab which forms the western por
tion, will be given over to Turkey.
Article 3.
All other territorial claims being renounced the two parties engage to appoint
without delay, Commissioners and Engineers, to determine the frontier between
the two Kingdoms, agreeably to the preceding article.
Article 4.
The two parties will settle that all losses mutually sustained subsequent to
the acceptance in Jemadee-ool-evval 1261 (June 1845) of the propositions of the
Mediating Powers, as well as the arrears of the pasturage fees for former years,
are to be equitably arranged by the Commissioners on both sides, to be appointed
without delay for this purpose.
Article 5.
The Turkish Government will appoint Broussa as the place of residence of
the refugee Persian Princes, without allowing them to absent themselves or to
entertain secret relations with Persia. As regards other refugees they are all to
be restored agreeably to the Treaty of Erzeroom.
Article 6.
The Merchants of Persia will pay the custom duties on their merchandise
according to its actual value in that country (Turkey) either cash or stock in con
formity with the commercial Article in the Treaty of Erzeroom concluded in
—^ ^239 (A.D. 1823), and nothing exceeding what is written in the above-
mentioned Treaty is to be claimed from them.

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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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