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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎101] (424/578)

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.
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Article XI.
This Treaty will be drawn up in duplicate in the Persian language.
Article XII.
The representatives of the two Contracting Parties undertake that within three
months of the signature of this Treaty, or, if possible, at an earlier date, all docu
ments necessary for its ratification will be exchanged at Tehran or Kabul. The
representatives of the two Contracting Parties have accordingly affixed their
signatures and seals to this Treaty.
Dated at Tehran, the 15th Shanwal, 1339, corresponding to the 1st Saratan,
1300 (Shamsi).
Mohtashem-es-Sultaneh, Abdul Aziz,
Minister jor Foreign Affairs of the Envoy of the Exalted Government
Exalted Government of Persia. of Afghanistan.
Supplementary Articles.
Article I.
The meaning of the sentence in Article III of this Treaty, viz., “ The subject*
of the two Contracting Governments, whether residing or travelling (in the other’s
country) will be respected and wholly under the protection of the officials of their
own Governments”, is that the officials of the either Government can, within the
scope of the laws of the country in which they reside, refer to the officials of that
country, for the arrangement of facilities for their subjects.
Article II.
The tribes and nomads who have previously emigrated from Afghanistan to
Persia (including Barbaris, &c.) will remain Persian subjects as before. The
Barbaris who intend to travel to Afghanistan shall not be allowed to enter Afghan
territory unless their passports have been vise by the Afghan officials residing in
Persia. The frontier tribes, who have their summer quarters in one country and
their winter quarters in the other, will be treated as Persian subjects during their
stay in Persia, and as Afghan subjects during their stay in Afghanistan. Persons
who have come from Afghanistan and settled in Persia previously to the establish
ment of an Afghan Legation in Tehran will remain Persian subjects as before.
Merchants, who have come to Persia from Afghanistan only for purposes of trade
and have not settled permanently in Persia, and who are proved by documentar)

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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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