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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎63] (386/578)

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. XV—1875.
Ixiii
Article 4.
The duty of /;> per cent., as above, shall be levied at the first Turkish Customs
House, but, in order to facilitate commerce, those wishing to pay the duty at the
place of sale shall do as follows :—
The Persian merchant importing tumbaku into Turkey shall immediately deliver
it to the Customs House, where it shall be weighed and its wrapper deducted from
it. On the determination of its net weight should it be sold in the place the 75
per cent, must be immediately paid and a paper (tezkereh) for it taken, but should
it be proposed to take it elsewhere for sale the owner must proceed to the Customs
and present a merchant of credit as a guarantee and execute a bond, binding
himself to transport the tumbaku to the place he intends selling it in within a
reasonable determined period, and after having his tezkereh countersigned by
the local Customs authority he shall return it to the place of entry, where he shall
pay the 75 per cent. After presenting a guarantee and executing the bond a
paper will be handed over to the merchant setting forth the weight of his goods
and the date within wdiich it shall be delivered to the Customs House of the town
to which it is being sent.
Should the merchant desire to pay the dues after sale, he may do so if he places
the tumbaku in his stores in a room locked with two keys, one of which is to be
m the hands of the Customs officials. This also may be done at the merchant’s
option at the frontier (or first Customs House at which it is delivered).
A deduction of 2 per cent, will be allowed by the Customs for every hundred
hokkehs of weight on account of moisture absorded in transit from the frontier
to the town in the interior on goods, the dues of which are paid, not at the frontier
but at the place of sale.
Article 5.
Tumbaku in transit will be treated as the merchandise in transit of other
nations.
Article 6.
Tumbaku taken from other parts of Turkey through Moldavia, Wallacba,
SerVia, or Egypt, shall pay customs at the first Turkish Customs House in the
aforesaid places ; just in the same way tumbaku brought from the above-men
tioned places to Turkey shall pay the dues at the first Customs House of the Turkish
Government. Tumbaku on which duty has been levied and which has not been
sold and is exported within a period of six months to one of those places shall
receive back the customs dues, less 1 per cent.
Article 7.
With reference to tobacco, tumbaku and salt, the privileges conferred in former
treaties to pilgrims to Kerbela shall remain in force; other travellers shall be
treated on a par with the travellers of other nations.

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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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English and French in Latin script
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