File 3939/1926 Pt 5 'Revision of Aitchison's Treaties: Persia, Seistan, Kerman and Persian Baluchistan' [‎132v] (258/558)

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PERSIA—APPENDIX NO. V—1813.
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Article 9.
The duties on Russian merchandise brought to Persian ports shall be in th fl
proportion of five hundred dinars (or 5 per cent.) on property of the value of on e
toman 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. , which having been paid at one city the goods may be conveyed to any
part of Persia without any further demand of duty being made on any pretence
whatever. The like percentage, and nothing more, will be paid on exports. The
import and export duties from Persian merchants in Russia will be levied at the
same rate.
Article 10.
On the arrival of goods at the seaport towns, or such as come by land-carriage
to the frontier towns of the two States, merchants shall be allowed to sell or
exchange their goods without the further permission of the Custom House Officers,
because it is the duty of Custom House Officers to prevent all sorts of delay, in the
prosecution of trade, and to receive the King’s customs from the buyer or seller
as may be agreed between them.
Article 11.
After the signature of this Treaty the respective plenipotentiaries shall imme
diately announce the peace to the different frontier posts and order the suspension
of all further hostilities ; and two copies of this Treaty being taken with Persian
translations, they shall be signed and sealed by the respective plenipotentiaries,
and be exchanged. They must then be ratified by the signatures of their Majesties
of Russia and Persia, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in the course of
three months.
Done in the Russian camp, at the River Zuivan near Gulistan in Karabagh.
The 12th October 1813. The 29th Showal 1828 Higira.
Nicholas Ritischeuf. Mirza Abul Hussein Khan.
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