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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [190] (207/578)
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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190
PERSIA— Telegraphs —NO. XXXI—1872.
Article 16.
This convention applies specially to the Tehran-Bushire section, but shall
apply equally to the Tehran-Khannikeen section, should the English Director,
at any time, deem it expedient to resume charge of that portion of the Persian
Telegraph.
In such a case the tariff of the Tehran-Khannikeen section and the method of
account shall be settled by a special arrangement between the English and Per
sian Administrations.
Article 17.
Any disagreement arising between the Telegraph employes of the two Oo7-
ernments shall be referred for decision to the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs
and the British Representative at Tehran.
Article 18.
This convention shall take effect from the day on which its ratifications are
exchanged, and shall remain in force until the first day of January one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-five, on which date the English Staff shall make over
the whole line, in whatever condition it may be at the time, including iron posts
and third wire, to the Persian Government, and shall then cease to have
any further connection with the Persian Telegraph.
Article 19.
After the erection of the third wire it shall be competent for the English Gov
ernment, at any time before the expiry of this convention, on giving six months
notice, to hand over the line, in its existing condition, to the Persian Govern
ment, and to withdraw its officers and employes from the country, ceasing from
that date to have any further connection with the Persian Telegraph.
Article 20
The ratifications of the present convention shall be exchanged at Tehran with
in five months or sooner, if practicable.
Done at Tehran, in quadruplicate, this second day of December in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
Mirza Syud Khan. • Rold. F. Thomson.
Prolongation of the Telegraph Convention of 2nd December 1872,-1887.
It is hereby agreed between the undersigned duly authorized thereto by their
respective Governments that the convention signed at Tehran on 2nd December
1872 for continuing the system of telegraphic communication between Europe
and India through Persia shall remain in force until 31st January 1905.
Done at Tehran this third day of July 1887.
Yahia Khan,
A. Nicholson, Mushir-ed-Dowleh.
H, B. Mis Charge d’Affaires, Minister for Foreign Affairs,
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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