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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [89] (412/578)
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. XXV 1921
Ixxxix
(b) The rail-road Djoulfa-Tauris-Sofian Urmiah, with all installations.
rolling-stock and accessories.
(c) The landing-stages, warehouses, steamships, canals and all means of
transport of the lake of Urmiah.
(d) All telegraph and telephone lines established in Persia by the Tsarist
Government, with all movable and immovable installations and
dependencies.
(e) The port of Enzeli and the warehouses, with the electrical installation
and other buildings.
Article 11 .
ln ^ ^ tHat the Treat y of Turkomantchai, concluded on February
10 , 1828 (old style), between Persia and Russia, which forbids Persia, under the
terms of Article 8, to have vessels in the waters of the Caspian Sea, is abrogated in
accordance with the principles set forth in Article 1 of the present Treaty the
two High Contracting Parties shall enjoy equal rights of free navigation on ’that
Sea, under their own flags, as from the date of the signing of the present Treaty
Article 12 .
. The Eussian Federal Government, having officially renounced all economic
mterests obtained by military preponderance, further declares that, apart from the
concessions which form the subject of Articles 9 and 10, the other concessions
obtained by force by the Tsarist Government and its subjects shall also be regarded
as null and void.
In conformity with which the Russian Federal Government restores, as from
the date of the signing of the present Treaty, to the Persian Government, as re
presenting the Persian people, all the concessions in question, whether already
being worked or not, together with all land taken over in virtue of those concessions.
Of the lands and properties situated in Persia and belonging to the former
Tsarist Government, only the premises of the Russian Legation at Tehran and
Zergundeh with all movable and immovable appurtenances, as well as all real and
other property of the Consulates and Vice-Consulates, shall be retained by Russia.
Russia abandons, however, her right to administer the village of Zergundeh, which
was assigned by the ex-Government of the Tsar.
Article 13.
The Persian Government, for its part, promises not to cede to a third Power
or to its subjects, the concessions and property restored to Persia by virtue of the
present Treaty, and to maintain those rights for the Persian nation.
Article 14.
The Persian Government, recognizing the importance of the Caspian fisheries
for the food supply of Russia, promises to conclude with the Food Service of the
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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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- 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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