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'Memorandum respecting the Claim of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam-ship Company to use Barges on those Rivers as a matter of "right"' [‎98v] (5/18)

The record is made up of 1 volume (8 folios). It was created in 5 May 1881. 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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But, in the following month (February 1860), Messrs. Lynch, June 2, 1860.
Mr. Hyslop, the Acting British Consul-General at
Bagdad, informed Messrs. Lynch's agents at that
place that the Vizirial letter of 1846 could not be
considered as conferring any permanent right, and
that Her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople,
looking upon it as a document giving merely a
temporary permission, which might at any time be
revoked by another document of a similar character,
did not deem it safe for them to engage their
capital in the navigation of the rivers of Mesopo
tamia until they had obtained from the Porte some
special sanction to that effect; but that he was
happy to inform them that the Ottoman Minister
for Foreign Affairs had acquainted Sir Henry Bulvver
that, if they were to apply to the Porte for a Firman A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
of Concession to establish a line of steamers to run
between Bagdad and Bussorah, he thought that
the Porte would not be averse to an arrangement of
that nature.
Messrs. Lynch, however, were informed by this
Office, in reply to their inquiry on the subject, that
there was nothing in the Foreign Office to show
that the arrangement of 184() with the Porte, or
the Vizirial instructions issued in consequence,
would bear the limited constructions put upon them
in Mr. Hyslop's letter.
In June following, Messrs. Lynch wrote again, to
say that they had been informed by their agent at
Bagdad that the local authorities would oppose
their navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates ; upon
which Sir H. Bulwer was instructed to speak to the To Sir H. Bulwer, No. 663;
Ottoman Minister on the subject, and to express a November 27, i860.
hope that the arrangement of 1846, which secured
to British subjects the right of navigating the waters
of Mesopotamia under the protection of the British
flag, would be faithfully adhered to by the Turkish
Government.
In the meantime, the special Firman A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’). alluded to
by Mr. Kyslop would not appear to have been
applied for or obtained, since Messrs. Lynch, in
November following, applied to this Office to know Messrs. Lynch,
whether it was still advisable that they should wait
the issue of a special Firman A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’). by the Porte autho
rizing their undertaking (namely, the navigation of
the Tigris by steamers put together at Bussorah for
that purpose), and asked, at the same time, for the
.
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November 30, 1860.

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This file is a Foreign Office memorandum regarding the right of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam-ship Company to sail their barges on those rivers, written by Foreign Office Librarian, Edward Hertslet.

The file contains a summary of negotiations between the British and Ottoman Governments and as such, also contains extracts from Ottoman Government documents in French.

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1 volume (8 folios)
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Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 97, and terminates at f 104, as it is part of a larger physical volume; 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. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.

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