The undersigned, His Britannic Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, hereby declares that in signing the Mirjawa Agreement of the 13th May without reference to His Majesty’s Government of the alterations in the orginal text introduced in compliance with the telegram from His Majesty the Shah of the 12th May in order not to cause further delay in the withdrawal of the Boundary Commission from Persian territory he reserves the tight of His Majesty’s Government, should it rot accept the amendments in question, to withhold its assent to the agreement.
No. CX. AGREEMENT entered into by I-us HIGHNESS the KHAN of Kalat, Mm MAHMUD KHAN, G.C.I.E., on the one part, and by COLONEL HEN RY Wv LIE, CS.!., G.LJ., Ofhciating Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan1 on the other part, subject to the confirmation of His Excellency the Viceroy n Council. Exteuted at Ks (at on Me first day cf July iligy. Whereas it has been found by experience to be to the advantage of both the British Government and His Highness Mir Mahmud Khan Khan of Kahat, that the District and Nia6a( of Nushki should be exclusively managed by the ofllcers of the British Government, it is hereby declared and agreed as follows. Mir Mahmud, Khan of Kalat, on behalF of himself and his heirs and successors, hereby makes over and entnists1 in perpetuity, the entire managernent of the Nushici District and Nitthat absolutely and with all the rights and privileges, slate or personal, as well as full and exclusive revenue, civil and criminal jurisdiction, and all other powers of alministration including all rights to levy dues and tails, to the British Government with effect from the 1st July E899 an the following condkions (i) that the said District and Niabai sha]l be administered on behalf of the British Government by or throuçh such officer or officers as the Governor-General in Council may appoint for the purpose; (2) that the British Government shall pay to His Hghness, on the ist September 1899, and thereafter annually on the ist September, a fixed annual rent of Rs. g,ooo nine thousand only, which has been settled as a lair avrrage equivalent of His Highness the FChan’s right Lu the annuaj revenues oi the said District and Niabat and
