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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [189] (206/578)
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— Telegraphs —NO. XXXI—1872.
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Article 11.
The duties of the Telegraph Inspectors and line guards are strictly confined
to repairing and maintaining the line.
If the line be wilfully damaged the Persian Government will take the most
stringent measures to oblige the local authorities to apprehend and punish the
offenders.
The Governors of districts will be accordingly instructed to pay prompt atten
tion to all complaints and communications made to them by the English Officers.
Article 12.
In case of any wilful damage to the line the expense of repairing the same
shall be defrayed by the Persian Government.
Article 13.
To enable the English Director to have a perfect knowledge of the state of th e
wires and offices, and thereby to provide for their general efficiency and the rapid
removal of any impediment to telegraphic communication, the orders and regula
tions issued by him regarding the connections within the offices and the times and
manner of testing the lines shall be strictly obeyed by the Persian Telegraph officers
and signallers.
Article 14.
It having been ascertained that the debt owed by the Persian Government
to the English Government on account of materials and erection of the second
wire, together with some items connected with the erection of the first wire and
the payment of line guards, amounted, on the 31st December 1869, to
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
one hundred and fifteen thousand and seventy-nine, krans eight (115,079-8),
or forty-seven thousand two hundred and seventeen (47,217) pounds sterling,
the English Government agrees to accept payment without interest, in the course
of twenty-four (24) years, in twenty-four (24) equal instalments of the same,
trom the Indo-European Telegraph Company.
Should the aforesaid Indo-European Telegraph Company wish to pay the
amount in question sooner, it is at liberty to do so.
The English Government shall notify, without delay, to the Persian Govern
ment, any instance of failure on the part of the Indo-European Telegraph Com
pany in paying the periodical instalments, and will then hold the Persian govern
ment responsible for any portion of the debt remaining unpaid.
Nothing in this Article is to be considered to invalidate any claim on the Indo-
European Telegraph Company which the Persian Government holds in virtue of
the concessions granted to the said Company.
Article 15,
line shall be exempt from customs or other duties in Persia.
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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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- front, back, front-i, i-r, i-v, ii-r, ii-v, 1:10, 1:306, 1:230, 1:22, iii-r, iii-v, back-i
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