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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [151] (474/578)
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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PI+RSIA— Telegraphs—APPENDIX NO. XXXI—1868.
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Article 12.
The adjustment of accounts between the grantees and the Government will be
made quarterly. If the payments due to the Government shall not be made within
three months after the settlement of accounts, the Government will have a right to
sequester the property of the grantees until the whole amount is liquidated. In
order to facilitate intercourse with the Persian Government the grantees are to
appoint a special Agent at Tehran.
Article 13.
The duration of the agreement is fixed for twenty-five years, dating from the
day when the telegraphic working of the line shall have commenced. At the
expiration of this time the privilege will cease, and the grantees must come to
terms beforehand with the Government as to the continuance of their use of the
Indo-European telegraphic line. In case they do not come to an understanding
on this point, the whole organized line, by virtue of the agreement, will be handed
over, in good condition and without indemnity, to the Persian Government.
Article 14.
If during the term of the grant the grantees have, with the consent of the Govern
ment, put up new wires to increase the means of communication, and if at the expiry
of the grant no arrangement has been made for its prolongation, the Government
promises to pay the grantees, according to a valuation, an indemnity for these new
wires. This valuation will be made by a Government Commission and an authorized
Agent on the part of the grantees.
Article 15.
It will always be in the power of the grantees to transfer the rights accorded
to them by the present grant, together with obligations assumed by them to a
company, the rules of which ought to be confirmed by Government. The grantees
are, nevertheless, expected to take at least a fifth part of the stock of such new com
pany.
Article 16.
In order to facilitate settlement of accounts between the Persian Government
and the grantees, the relative value of the monies is fixed by the following invariable
currency :—
One pound steiling=twenty-five francs= twenty-two krans.
One shilling=one franc twenty-five centimes=one kran two shahis.
One penny—ten oantimes—two shahis.
One rouble=four francs=three krans and ten shahis.
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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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- ‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’
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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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