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'MEMORANDUM RESPECTING THE NAVIGATION OF THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES.' [21r] (42/284)
The record is made up of 1 file (42 folios). It was created in 24 Apr 1913. 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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To Messrs. Lynch
and Co.,
February 2, 1861.
Euphrates and
Tigris Steam
Navigation
Company,
June 3, 1861.
To Sir H. Bulwer,
No. 364.
June 5,1861.
To Consul-General
Kemball, No. 4,
Consular,
June 7, 1861.
Enclosure in
Consul-General
Plowden, No. 2,
Commercial,
March 28, 1881.
27
on the River Euphrates at Bagdad* and to run them
by turns for the purposes of facilitating trade, two
firmans, dated respectively the end of Shaban 1250
(a.d . 1834) and the beginning of Redjeb 1257
(A .u. 1841), were addressed to the late Governor-
Geneial of Bagdad, Ali Riza
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, authorising the
permanent station of two steamers on that river,
provided it were proved and established that the
advantages resulting therefrom would be mutual and
that no sort of inconvenience would ensue therefrom."
The latter part recited the substance of the
arrangement of 1846, and the
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
of Bagdad
was instructed in the final paragraph of the letter
to " act according to the above rules."
No account of the negotiations leading up to
the issue of the vizierial letter appears to have
been given to the Foreign Office by Sir H.
Bulwer, nor did he comment on its terms,
beyond stating that it was confirmatory of the
arrangement of 1846. Nothing has been found
in the correspondence at the time to show that
it was to be understood that the firmans of 1834
and 1841 were mentioned in order to restrict
Messrs. Lynch's company to the employment of
two vessels only.
Messrs. Lynch were furnished with a transla
tion of the vizierial letter, and a few months
later the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation
Company (Mr. H. B. Lynch, chairman) reported
that they bad been duly constituted and
registered for the purpose of navigating the
Rivers Euphrates and Tigris by steam-vessels, and
that their first steamer was about to be dis
patched to Bussorah to ply on those rivers.
Instructions were thereupon sent to Sir H. Bulwer
and to the consul-general at Bagdad to give such
countenance and protection to the interests of the
company as they could properly afford.
It appears from a despatch sent to the
Ambassador at Constantinople by the consul-
general at Bagdad in 1881, that the steamer
" City of London" was sent out in pieces
and was completed and placed on the Tigris
in May 1862, but that it was then found neces
sary to obtain the issue of a fresh vizierial
letter^ addressed to the Vali of Bagdad, Namick
• Bagdad is on the Tigris.
f No information on the subject was furnished to the
Foreign Office at the time by the Embassy at Constantinople,
the Consul-General at Bagdad, or the Euphrates and Tigris-
Steam Navigation Company.
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Memorandum, written by Richard William Brant and Edward Parkes of the Foreign Office, Apr 1913 regarding navigation on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The memorandum is divided into four parts:
- Historical Memorandum respecting the navigation of the Mesopotamian rivers. The memorandum describes the history of British relations 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. and the progress of their relations in order to determine the rights that Great Britain possesses which allow it to participate in the trade and navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The memorandum covers both the period where rights were acquired by the East India Company (1579-1859) and from 1860s onwards where rights and special privileges were acquired and maintained on behalf of the Tigris and Euphrates Steam Navigation Company (folios 8-66);
- British rights by treaty with regard to the navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates, which looks at the rights accrued by Great Britain through treaties with the Ottoman Government and through the Ottoman Empire's treaties with other nations (folios 67-70);
- Conclusions, which summarises the conclusions that can be drawn from the information provided in both the historical memorandum and the treaties sections (folios 71-74);
- Chronological Table covering the period 1759 to 1912, with annual entries from 1873 onwards (folios 75-119) ;
- Annex: Instances where the employment of British steamers in the navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates has been asserted or admitted to be limited by the Firmans of 1834 and 1841;
- Appendices: 34 items which are listed on folio 122, and include extracts and copies of Treaties, Firmans, Memorandum, Circulars and other relevant documents covering the period 1718 to 1912.
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- 1 file (42 folios)
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Foliation: The main 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'. ). An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between folios 4-139; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'MEMORANDUM RESPECTING THE NAVIGATION OF THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES.'
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