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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [188] (511/578)
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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elxxxviii AP^GHANISTAN— APPENDIX NO. Ill— 1893.
AFGHANISTAN.
APPENDIX No. III.—[See VW 218.]
Protocol No. 1.
On the 18th—30th May 1893 the Russian and British Commissioners appoint
ed to hold an enquiry on the spot and to settle the question of the alleged infrac
tions which may have been committed by either side of the stipulations relative
to the waters of the Kushk river and contained in Protocol No. 4 signed at St.
Petersburg on July 10th—22nd, 1887, by the Russian and British Delegates
for the delimitation of the North-Western Frontier of Afghanistan, viz. :—
On the part of Russia .—Monsieur V. Ignatiew, Collegiate Councillor and Func
tionary for the Minister of Foreign Affairs, attached to the Governor of the pro
vince of Transcaspia, and
On the part of Great Britain. —Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Yate, C.S.I., C.M.G.,
having met near the Afghan post at Kara Tepe proceeded to inspect the canals
and cultivated lands on the left (Afghan) bank of the River Kushk between Kara
Tepe and Chihal Dukhtar.
The representative of His Highness the Amir of Afghanistan, Muhammad
Painda Khan, Hakim of Badghis, took part in this inspection.
Lieutenant-Colonel Artamanow of the General Staff, Assistant to the Russian
Commissioner, and Lieutenant the Honourable H. D. Napier, attache to the
English Commissioner, were also present.
The results of the inspection were marked by Captain Nassibiantz of the Corps
of Military Topographers attached to the Russian Commission on the map which
is annexed to the present Protocol.
The distances and measurements noted in the present Protocol are calculated
approximately by the same officer.
The inspection showed the following results :—•
1. A canal known as the Mill canal, and marked on the annexed map by the
letter A, takes off from the Kushk at a distance of 3 versts and some 350 sagenes
or about 2% miles to the south of Boundary Pillar No. 22 and 1 verst and 230
sagenes or 1,703 yards to the south of the Kara Tepe mound, and flows north along
the left bank of the river and pass es one ruined mill; from there it flows towards
another mill now working, situated at a distance of 2 versts and some 60 sagenes
in a straight line from the head of the canal. The water after turning the mill
flows back into the river 90 sagenes or about 210 yards below the mill without
being used for irrigation at the present time.
Some old branches of this canal bend towards the cultivated lands near the
Kara Tepe mound. The Afghan representative maintains that these branches
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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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