IOR/L/PS/10/1147

The main issues covered in the volume are:

• The reciprocal arrangements made with the Persian Government related to the service on British subjects in India of summons issued by Persian courts, and the service on Persian subjects of summons issued by courts of justice in the United Kingdom, Iraq and India
• The emergency measures taken by the Persian military authorities to suppress the rising in Khorasan
• News of the appointment of a new Minister of Justice in Persia, his closing down of the Ministry’s offices, and suspension of its employees
• Turkish interest in the abolition of the capitulations in Persia
• Accounts of the inefficiency, bribery and corruption of the Adliyeh [Adliyya] Court (Justice Court, also spelled in the volume as Adlieh) and other courts in various localities in Persia
• The way the work of the Adliyeh court affects the British and British Indian employees of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company based in Ahwaz
• The possible effect of the abolition of capitulations on the work of Christian missions in Persia
• The French, Belgian, German, American and Spanish governments’ responses to the abolition of the capitulations
• The question of Khuzistan and its oil fields
• The ratification of the three Russian agreements with the Persian Government
• The question of Persian jurisdiction over British ships in the Persian Gulf
• The positions of Germany, France and the United States towards concluding new commercial treaties with Persia
• The obligations of the British and Persian governments in relation to the Duzdap [Zahedan] Railway proposal
• Anglo-Persian relations
• Russo-Persian relations
• German-Persian relations
• French-Persian relations.

• Foreign judicial advisers
• Procedure of Persian courts in civil, commercial and criminal cases to which foreign nationals are parties
• Composition of Persian courts
• Competence of various Persian tribunals
• Persian religious courts
• Persian police courts
• Arrest of foreign nationals
• Notification of arrest to consuls
• Bail
• Right of public trial
• Right of a prisoner to organise his own defences
• Prisons
• Personal status
• Taxation
• Transitional arrangements
• Persian legal codes
• Naturalisation
• Ownership of land
• Execution of judgement and other matters
• Extradition
• Religious freedom.

The main correspondents in the volume are the British Legation in Tehran; the Foreign Office; the British Residency and Consulate-General at Bushire [Bushehr]; the Secretary of State to the Government of India; the Viceroy, Foreign and Political Department; the British embassies in Paris, Madrid, Washington and Berlin; the British consulates in various localities in Persia; and the Persian Government.

The volume includes a divider, which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the title page of the correspondence.