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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [100] (423/578)
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. XXVI—1921.
Diplomatic and Consular Officers of the High Contracting Parties will have no
right of interference in civil and criminal cases in each other’s territory, and the
internal Courts of the country in which they are staying will be those to which all
claims must be referred by the subjects of either Government.
Article V.
The Two High Contracting Parties will have the right to appoint Consuls
General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents in the important towns and
trading centres of each other’s country ; but the said officials will not enter upon
the duties of their appointments until after the exequaturs of their commissions
have been issued according to the custom of the country in which they are staying.
Article VI.
The subjects of either Government staying in the territory of the other will be
exempt from military service and all other duties incumbent only on subjects of
the country.
Article VII.
If a subject of either of the two Contracting Governments commits a crime and
absconds to the territory of the other, the officers of his Government will have the
right to demand, through diplomatic channels, his extradition, and the local
authorities will not fail to give assistance in the matter. Political offenders, how
ever, will be excepted from this arrangement.
Article VIII.
In order to strengthen friendly relations and to establish trade connections,
the two Contracting Parties will, at the first opportunity, conclude such Agree
ments and Conventions as may be necessary in regard to trade relations, Customs
duties, postal and telegraphic exchanges, which will come into force after signature
and ratification.
Article IX.
The outbreak of war between one of the Contracting Parties and a third State
will not operate to cause a rupture of the friendly relations of the two parties.
The other party will be bound, according to the rules of neutrality, to avoid giving
facilities to the enemy.
Article X.
The Contracting Parties, in order to manifest the friendship and trust existing
between the Imperial Government of Persia and the Kingdom of Afghanistan,
have decided that all important difficulties and disputes, which they may not be
able to settle satisfactorily by negotiation, should be referred to arbitration accord
ing to international law and custom. The Contracting Parties engage to carry
out the award with all sincerity. f
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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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- front, back, front-i, i-r, i-v, ii-r, ii-v, 1:10, 1:306, 1:230, 1:22, iii-r, iii-v, back-i
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