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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [289] (306/578)
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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AFGHANISTAN— NO. XXIV—1921. 289
living on the British side of the boundary shall be permitted without let or hin
drance to use the aforesaid portion of the Kabul River for purposes of navigation
and that all existing rights of irrigation from the aforesaid portion of the river
shall be continued to British subjects.
Article III.
The British Government agrees that a Minister from His Majesty the Amir of
Afghanistan shall be received at the Royal Court of London like the Envoys of
all other Powers, and to permit the establishment of an Afghan Legation in London,
and the Government of Afghanistan likewise agrees to receive in Kabul a Minister
from His Britannic Majesty the Emperor of India and to permit the establishment
of a British Legation at Kabul.
Each Party shall have the right of appointing a Military Attache to its Lega'
tion.
Article IV.
The Government of Afghanistan agrees to the establishment of British Con
sulates at Kandahar and Jalalabad, and the British Government agrees to the
establishment of an Afghan Consul-General at the headquarters of the Govern*
ment of India and three Afghan Consulates at Calcutta, Karachi and Bombay.
In the event of the Afghan Government desiring at any time to appoint Consular
officers in any British territories other than India a separate agreement shall be
drawn up to provide for such appointments if they are approved by the British
Government.
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Article V.
The two High Contracting Parties mutually guarantee the personal safety and
honourable treatment each of the representatives of the other, whether Minister,
Consul-General or Consuls, within their own boundaries, and they agree that the
said representatives shall be subject in the discharge of th«ir duties to the provi
sions set forth in the Second Schedule annexed to this Treaty. The British
Government further agrees that the Minister, Consul-General and Consuls of
Afghanistan shall, within the territorial limits within which they are permitted to
reside or to exercise their functions, notwithstanding the provisions of the said
Schedule, receive and enjoy any rights or privileges which are or may hereafter
be granted to or enjoyed by the Minister, Consul-General or Consuls of any other
Government in the countries in which the places of residence of the said Minister,
Consul-General and Consuls of Afghanistan are fixed ; and the Government of
Afghanistan likewise agrees that the Minister and Consuls of Great Britain shall,
within the territorial limits within which they are permitted to reside or to exer
cise their functions, notwithstanding the provisions of the said Schedule, receive
and enjoy any rights or privileges which are or may hereafter be granted to or
enjoyed by the Minister or Consuls of any other Government in the countries in
which the places of residence of the said Minister and Consuls of Great Britain
are fixed.
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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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