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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎140] (157/578)

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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£15,714 Is. lOd. per annum for three years, and £30,278 12s. Id. per annum from
the year 1913 to the year 1928, the full net customs receipts of every description
which the Government now is, or at any time hereafter may be, entitled to collect
and receive at all ports and places in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , including Bushire, Bunder
Abbas, Lingah, Mohammerah and Ahwaz, which receipts are hereby made pay
able to the bank, and the Imperial Government of Persia hereby engages forth
with after receipt thereof to pay to the bank all such customs receipts as afore
said without deduction other than for actual expenses of administration of the
customs of the said ports disbursed prior to the date of such payment:—
(а) The Imperial Government of Persia undertakes that throughout tho con
tinuance of the loan all sums collected by the Customs Administration shall be
paid to the bank at the ports of collection, or at its nearest branch, week by week
for meeting the prior charges referred to above and for the service of the loan,
and an account of such receipts shall be submitted to the Persian Government by
the bank at the end of each month.
(б) The bank shall, out of the moneys so collected, pay the prior charges
above-mentioned, and the interest and sinking fund of the loan, and shall hold
the surplus at the disposal of the Imperial Government of Persia.
(c) The bank undertakes, out of the moneys so received, to pay on behalf
of the Imperial Government of Persia the half-yearly coupons in London, and
supervise the working of the sinking fund and service of the loan free of charges
connected with tho same.
(d) In the event of the customs receipts of the above-mentioned ports for
any three months falling short of the amount required for the prior charges and
the service of the loan, either for interest or amortisation, the Imperial Govern
ment of Persia binds itself to make good such deficiency from other sources of
Government revenue, and further, should receipts from these sources fall below
the amount required as above, the Persian Government hereby assigns for this
purpose the revenue derived from the receipts of the telegraphs—this assignment
to constitute a second charge on the said telegraph receipts up to the year 1928,
after which tho telegraph receipts will be free.
No. 3.
Sir P. Cox to His Highness Vossuq-ed-Dowleh.
British Legation,
Tehran ;
9th August, 1919.
Your Highness,
I trust A our Highness has been able, during your successful direction of affairs
of the Persian State, to convince yourself that His Britannic Majesty’s Govern-

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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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