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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎22] (345/578)

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—APPENDIX NO. VI—1823.
ture, the property shall be delivered up. The customary fees and the hire of the
place depositing the effects are to be paid, and should they be burnt or destroyed
in the forestated period, no pretensions are to be made for the recovery of the
property. If, during the forestated period, the heir or executor of the deceased
does not arrive, the officers of the treasury (beit al mal), with the knowledge of
the Agent of the Persian Government, are to sell the property and to keep the
amount in deposit.
Article 7.
Agreeably to former engagements, and for the purpose of adding fresh ties
to the alliance, a Minister shall be sent every three years to reside for that period
at the respective Courts. The subjects of the two High Powers, who during the
war may have deserted from either country, in consideration of this happy peace,
shall suffer no punishment for the offence committed.
Final Article.
The capitulations detailed in the basis of the Treaty, in the stipulations, and
different articles, which have been the result of the conferences, shall be approved
of by both parties. No claim shall be advanced on account of plunder and losses,
or any indemnification required for the expenses of the war, and the principle
adhered to by both Governments shall be to overlook all past occurrences.
According to established custom che ratifications of this Treaty shall be
exchanged, and from the signature of this authentic instrument to the space of
sixty days, Ambassadors of secondary rank must meet each other on the frontiers
of the two countries, and from thence proceed to the Courts of the respective States
for the purpose of delivering the ratified Treaty. In this manner the alliance
has been renewed and confirmed, and the truest reconciliation has taken place
from the date of this Treaty. No alteration shall be made in the above stipula
tions and agreements or any measures hereafter pursued in repugnance to the
rights of friendship.
The Plenipotentiary of the Ottoman Government in virtue of his full powers
has signed and sealed this Treaty on the 19th day of Zekaud in the year 1238, for
which this instrument, in exact conformity thereto, has been delivered in exchange
by the Plenipotentiary of His Persian Majesty agreeably to his full powers.
Mahmud Ummeer Raoof.
Mahomed Ali.

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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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