‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎295] (312/578)

AFGHANISTAN—NO. XXIV—1921.
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General and Consuls, besides their own wives and children, not more than twenty-
persons. If it becomes necessary to employ in addition subjects of the Govern
ment of the country to which they are accredited, Ministers can employ not more
than ten persons and Consul-General and Consuls not more than five persons.
(j) T h e Ministers, Consul-General and Consuls of the two High Contracting
Parties shall be at liberty to communicate freely with their own Government and
with other official representatives of their Government in other countries by post,
by telegraph and by wireless telegraphy in cypher or en clair, and to receive and
despatch sealed bags by courier or post, subject to a limitation in the case of Minis
ters of 6 lb. per week, and in the case of a Consul-General and Consuls of 4 lb. per
week, which shall be exempt from postal charges and examination, and the safe
transmission of which shall, in the case of bags sent by post, be guaranteed by the
Postal Departments of the two Governments.
(&) Each of the two Governments shall exempt from the payment of Customs
or other duties all articles imported within its boundaries in reasonable quantities
for the personal use of the Minister of the other Government or of his family,
provided that a certificate is furnished by the Minister at the time of importation
that the articles are intended for such personal use.
APPENDIX.
(No. 1.)
Letter from British Representative to Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. -i-Ala, the Afghan Foreign Minister,
After compliments. —With reference to the provisions contained in Article VI
of the Treaty concluded between the Government of Afghanistan and the British
Government regarding the importation of arms and munitions into Afghanistan
through India, I have the honour to inform and assure you that, although the
British Government has in that Article reserved to itself the right exercised by
every nation to stop the transportation to a neighbouring country of arms and
munitions, in the event of its not being assured of the friendly intentions of that
country, the British Government has no desire to make trifling incidents an excuse
for the stoppage of such arms and munitions. It would only be in the event of
the Government of Afghanistan showing plainly by its attitude that it had deter
mined on an unfriendly and provocative course of policy towards Great Britain
contrary to the neighbourly Treaty above-mentioned that the latter State would
exercise the right of stoppage. There is every ground for hope that such a con
tingency will never arise, in view of the friendly relations which are expected to
spring from the Treaty which has now been concluded. (Usual ending.)
(No. 2.)
Letter No. 112, from Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. -i-Ala, the Afghan Foreign Minister, to the British Re
presentative at Kabul.
After compliments. —Regarding the purchase of arms and munitions which the
Government of Afghanistan buys for the protection of its rights and welfare, from