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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎41] (58/578)

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—NO. 1—1768.
41
No. I.
Articles of Agreement made with Shaik Sadoon, of Bushtre, the 12th April
1763.
Article 1.
No customs or dut'es to be collected on goods imported or exported by the
English . and, in like manner, only three per cent, to be taken from the merchants
who buy or sell to the English.
Article 2.
The importation and sale of woollen goods to be solely in the hands of the
English ; and if any person whatever attempts to bring woollen goods clandestinely,
it shall be lawful for the English to seize them. This Article to take place in
four months from date hereof.
Article 3.
No European nation whatever is to be permitted to settle at Bushire so long as
th e English continue a factory An East India Company trading post. here.
Article 4.
The brokers, linguists, servants, and others of the English are to be entirely
under the protection and Government of the English ; nor is the Shaik, or his
people, in any shape to molest them, or interfere in their affairs.
Article 5.
In case any of the inhabitants become truly indebted to the English and refuse
payment, the Shaik shall oblige them to give the English satisfaction.
Article 6.
The English to have such a spot of ground as they may pitch upon for erecting
a factory An East India Company trading post. , and proper conveniences for carrying on their commerce, to be built
at the Shaik’s expense. They are to hoist their colours upon it and have twenty-
one guns for saluting.
Article 7.
A proper spot of ground to be allotted the English for a garden, and another
for a burying ground.
Article 8.
The English, and those under their protection, not to be impeded in their religion.

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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)
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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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