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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [157] (480/578)
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— Telegraphs —APPENDIX NO. XXXIII—1879.
clvii
received and transmitted by the Persian telegraph lines. The Persian Ministers
consent to the transmission and receipt of telegraph messages by the Persian
telegraph lines whether they be in Russian or (any other) Foreign language, or in
cypher ; (and) to give permission for the stationing of Russian Telegraph officers
at Persian telegraph stations from Joolfa up to Astrabad itself, and wherever they
may be deemed requisite for the transmission of messages in due order and without
delay.
telegraph stations by virtue of Article VI of this Convention, the rules of their
intercourse with the Persian Telegraph Department, and in conformity with the
arrangement which is known in French as the “ Declaration Ministeriel ” con
cluded between the Persian and Russian Governments on the 28th of October
1870, and will be as follows :—
The transmission of all the transit telegraph messages passing by the Persian
lines between Astrabad and Joolfa will take precedence of all private messages
from Persian telegraph stations, except the official messages of the Persian Govern
ment.
This Convention will be in force for a year from the day of its signature : after
the lapse of this one year should the Ministers of the Persian and Russian Govern-
After the completion of the telegraph line from Chekishler to Astrabad, the
Russian Government will make over to that of Persia that part of the said line which
shall have been constructed in Persian territory to be its own property.
Article 7*.
The rights and duties of the Russian signallers who may reside in the Persian
Francs
For a message in transit of 20 words from Astrabad to Joolfa . .
From Joolfa to Astrabad .........
From places between Russian stations on tbs eastern side of the Caspian to
4
4
Tehran and other telegraph stations situated to the north of that place .
But from Russian telegraph stations to the south of Tehran
4
8
Article 9.
Article 10.
ments both deem it suitable to maintain it or to make any changes in it this will
be done.
Article 11.
given.
part of a separate article, presumably Article 8, which is not
1 H 2
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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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