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'Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia, as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information' [‎92r] (187/226)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (111 folios). It was created in 1874. It was written in English. 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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[ XV ]
we command that this business shall be examined, and that the said
money be restored back, and for the time to come the ancient custom
may be kept, and that this nation shall only pay as the French and
Venetian do, and that never be taken one asper by name of such
imposition.
L.
Whereas the English merchants, resident in Galata, ordinarily pay
The discharge ef one eustomer » divers goods and merohandize before
sufficient acquittance against him that they can lade or send them away upon
succeeds. their ships, and do pay unto the custo
mers the custom of the said goods, receiving a bill or acquittance to have
paid the same, and after carry the same merchandize to their own ware
houses, in the meantime before they can load and send away the said-
goods, it happens that either the customer dies or is removed from his
charge and the new customers will not accept of the said acquittance,
but pretend another custom, troubling and molesting them many ways,
wherefore we command that of all the merchandize which they shall buy,
it appearing really that he hath paid once his custom, the customer shall
accept of the said acquittance and shall not demand of the merchant a
second custom.
LI.
It being usual to buy in Augora camblets, Mohario silks and other
sorts of merchandize which they trans-
No custom to be paid twice. port to Constantinople and other places
of our dominions, and pay their customs taking acquittances for the
same, and to put the goods in their own warehouses, and after being
desirous to ship them away, the customers do demand again the custom,
therefore, for the time to come, when the said merchants shall desire to
lade such goods, and if it be true that they have already paid them
custom of such merchandize, they shall not demand any second or new
customs provided that the said merchants do not mingle their goods
which have not paid custom with those which have already paid custom.
LII.
The English merchants, of all the merchandize which they shall
bring into our dominions, and of the merchandize which they carry out
of our dominions, as silks, camblets, and other goods, having paid the
custom and not sold the goods unto another, and being afterwards to
ship it away for Scio, Smyrna, or any other scale, and the said goods
there arriving, the customers and officers shall always accept of their
acquittances, which they have in their hands, and shall not take other
custom of their merchandize.
LIII.
The English merchants of all the commodities which they shall
bring to Constantinople or to any other
Mestaria shall he paid at Galata. port of our dominion ^ and 0 f a ll such
as they shall transport, the mestarage of Galata and Constantinople shall
take their mestaria or brokidge according to the ancient canon and

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The volume is Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. , as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information (Calcutta: Foreign Department Press, 1874).

The volume includes a five paragraph introduction stating that the record had been compiled following a request to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. from the Government of India (folio 15). The information is a mixture of précis and direct quotation, with comments. The sources are correspondence; minutes; extracts from proceedings; treaties; lists; the diary of the Bombay Government; the diaries of Surat and Gombroon [Bandar Abbas]; reports; committee reports; dispatches to the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. ; statements from the Military Auditor-General; and firmans.

The record includes selected information on appointments; personnel; treaties; trade; relations with the Ottoman authorities; diplomatic contacts; political developments; climate and health; administration; and naval and martime affairs.

Five appendices at the rear of the volume (folios 85-109) give transcripts of treaties between England/the United Kingdom and the Government of the Ottoman Empire (the Sublime Porte), signed 1661-1809; and a 'Memorandum on the present condition of the Pachalic [Pachalik] of Bagdad and the means it possesses of renovation and improvement' dated 12 November 1834.

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1 volume (111 folios)

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There is an index on ff 2-15. The index gives the following information in parallel columns: year; miscellaneous information regarding Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. (ff 2-11); appointments etc. in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. commencing with the year 1728 (ff 12-14); Euphrates expedition and flotilla (f 15); paragraph of summary; and page. Entries in the index refer to the numbered paragraphs that compose the main body of the text (headed 'Summary').

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the first folio bearing text and terminates at 109, on the last folio bearing text. The numbers are written in pencil and enclosed in a circle and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. There is also an original printed pagination, numbered i-xxviii (index); [1]-137 (main body of text); [i]-xlix (appendices).

Condition: the volume is disbound and has lost its front cover.

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Title: 'Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia, as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information'
Pages: front, front-i, 1r:84v, 84ar:84av, 85r:110v, back-i, back
Author: East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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