File 3414/1906 Pt 3 'Persia: telegraphs; exchange of telegraphs with Russia and Anglo-Persian convention for improvement of Arabistan telegraphs' [‎21r] (46/476)

INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT.^
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Minute
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Losses incurred by the staff of the Indo
RECEiVEoS European Telegraph Department through high way ^ohlery
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JNDjA Qi-FiCt in Pay's in are rat* aver able from i e Persian Goverruxe nt
either directly or by short payment of sums due to
that Government by the Department. There is at times
great aelay in the settlement of these claims; ana to
relieve the telegraph employes from the hardship
consequent on long delays in payment of their claims,
the Director in Chief proposes that the Department shculc
pay all duly certifud claims against the Persian
Government for losses incurred by the members of the
staff in assaults and robberies carried out against
them while in the ordinary perfofinance of their duties.
The amounts so paid will be treated in the accounts as
advances against the Persian Government, for settlement
with that Government as soon as such settlement can be
arranged either directly or by short payment of sums due
by the Department a
opdoCounc il
It is submitted that this proposal be approved