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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎201] (218/578)

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. XXXVI—1916.
201
as will not interfere with the ordinary traffic of that line and only when the com
munication on the two existing routes between Persia and India is totally inter
rupted ; whenever the Director of the Indo-European Telegraph Department
requires to use the Seistan Line as a route for the transit of the international
traffic, the permission of the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs must be obtained.
Article 9.
After the control of the line has passed into the hands of the Persian Govern
ment, it shall not be handed over to any foreign Government or any Compam,
but it can again be handed to the Indo-European Telegraph Department by special
arrangement agreeable to the parties concerned.
Article 10.
The Persian Government reserve to themselves the right to build an office
at the frontier, but pending the construction of such office, messages originating
at one Persian station and terminating at another Persian station and passing
over this line through Robat, will be treated as local messages.
Article 11.
A Completion Report giving an account of the expenses incurred in constructing
the line shall be submitted to the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs as early es
possible for his acceptance and signature, and from the total expenditure a sum
of £2,500, referred to in Article 2, shall be deducted.
This Agreement consisting of eleven Articles was approved by the Cabinet
Ministers on the 19th of Houtte Taveshgan-il 1334, equal to the 9th of March
1916 A.D.
The stipulations of this Agreement will take effect from the 17th of November
1914 A.D., equal to the 15th of Aghrab 1332, when the extension of the line was
completed.
Sardare Mansoor,
Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs.
W. King Wood,
Director, Persian Section,
Indo-European Telegraph Department.
His Highness Sahram-ed-Dowleh, Minister for Foreign Affairs, etc., etc., etc.,
and Sir Charles M. Marling, K.C.M.G., C.B., His Britannic Majesty’s Minister,
etc., etc., etc., at Tehran, being duly authorised by their respective Governments,
have ratified the above-mentioned Agreement.
Done in duplicate, at Tehran, on the twelfth day of July, nineteen hundred
and sixteen.
Charles M. Marling.
Akbar.

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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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