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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎211] (534/578)

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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AFGHANISTAN—APPENDIX NO. XII—1927.
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by one party to the other for the preceding year in respect of
oil, other material and spares taken or used by the aeroplanes
the territory of the other, and also of all other expenditure incurred in connexion
with the said air route.
8 . If an aeroplane belonging to one party meets with an accident in the terri
tory of the other party, the latter will repair the aeroplane at the expense of the
party to which the aeroplane belongs. The party, in the territory of which the
accident has taken place, wall take the machine to its workshops. If the machine
is repairable and the owner agrees to pay for the repairs, the said machine will
be repaired and will be taken by air to the country to which it belongs. If, how
ever, repairs are not practicable, the party in the territory of which the accident
has taken place will take and deliver the machine at the border of the territory
of the party to which the machine belongs.
9. In their respective territories each party undertakes to render full assis
tance to the personnel of the air service of the other party, and this more es
pecially in cases of forced landings.
10. Both parties undertake to make arrangements for customs control in both
directions.
11. The tariff of fares for passengers and posts between Kabul, Termez and
Tashkent will, in accordance with article 14, be fixed by a special Agreement,
which Agreement will come into operation not later than the 1st January 1928.
12 . Expenditure incurred by either party, for maintaining and looking after
the air route and for providing and keeping the ground, equipment and material,
and for fuel, lubricating oil, spares, repairs, looking after the machines and enter
tainment of air personnel, will be borne by that party.
In the same way, income obtained from the use of the aeroplanes supplied
by either party will be utilised according to the orders of the party concerned.
13. Passenger and postal charges will be collected in the following manner :—
At Tashkent and Termez by the Central Asia Department (Dubrolet) in case
of flights from Tashkent and Termez to Kabul in a U. S. S. R. machine and at
Tashkent by the Afghan Consul-General in case of flights in an Afghan machine.
At Kabul through the Legation of the U. S. S. R. and the Headquarters,
Afghan Air Force, in case of flights from Kabul to Termez and Tashkent.
14. Details necessary to operation of the Agreement, the preparation and
alteration of time-tables, matters connected with the completion of the air route
and the location of landing-grounds and the preparation of fare-tables will be
undertaken direct between the Dubrolet of the U. S. S. R. and the Headquarters
of the Afghan Air Force.
15. This Agreement will have legal force from the date on which it is signed,
and flights will commence not later than the 1st January 1928.
16. This Agreement will be acted upon till the 1st January 1929.
17. This Agreement has been drawm up in two copies, in Russian and Persian,
both having equal force.
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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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