File 3939/1926 Pt 5 'Revision of Aitchison's Treaties: Persia, Seistan, Kerman and Persian Baluchistan' [‎134v] (262/558)

xx ii PERSIA—APPENDIX NO. VI—1823.
ture, the property shall be delivered up. The customary fees and the hire of the
place depositing the effects are to be paid, and should they be burnt or destroyed
in the forestated period, no pretensions are to be made for the recovery of the
property. If, during the forestated period, the heir or executor of the deceased
does not arrive, the officers of the treasury (beit al mal), with the knowledge of
the Agent of the Persian Government, are to sell the property and to keep the
amount in deposit.
Article 7.
Agreeably to former engagements, and for the purpose of adding fresh ties
to the alliance, a Minister shall be sent every three years to reside for that period
at the respective Courts. The subjects of the two High Powers, who during the
war may have deserted from either country, in consideration of this happy peace,
shall suffer no punishment for the offence committed.
Final Article.
The capitulations detailed in the basis of the Treaty, in the stipulations, and
different articles, which have been the result of the conferences, shall be approved
of by both parties. No claim shall be advanced on account of plunder and losses,
or any indemnification required for the expenses of the war, and the principle
adhered to by both Governments shall be to overlook all past occurrences.
According to established custom the ratifications of this Treaty shall be
exchanged, and from the signature of this authentic instrument to the space of
sixty days, Ambassadors of secondary rank must meet each other on the frontiers
of the two countries, and from thence proceed to the Courts of the respective States
for the purpose of delivering the ratified Treaty. In this manner the alliance
has been renewed and confirmed, and the truest reconciliation has taken place
from the date of this Treaty. No alteration shall be made in the above stipula
tions and agreements or any measures hereafter pursued in repugnance to the
rights of friendship.
The Plenipotentiary of the Ottoman Government in virtue of his full powers
has signed and sealed this Treaty on the 19th day of Zekarfd in the year 1238, for
w ic this instrument, in exact conformity thereto, has been delivered in exchan^
by the Plenipotentiary of His Persian Majesty agreeably to his full powers.
Mahmud Ummeer Raoof.
Mahomed All