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'Report on the Preliminary Survey of The Route for The Central Persia Telegraph Line from Quetta to Bam and Pahra' [5r] (14/162)
The record is made up of 1 volume (77 folios). It was created in 1901. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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shall belong entirely to the Persian Government. By local traffic
is meant messages originating at one Persian station and termi
nating at another Persian station.
ARTICLE IX.
As regards International messages originating or terminating
in Persia, the Persian Government shall receive two-thirds of the
receipts of all bond fide terminal messages.
And as regards transit messages, as this line is merely an
alternative one to that now existing between Tehran and Bushire,
the arrangement already made, as detailed in Article VIII of the
1872 Convention, will remain as at present. State telegrams
passing between the Government of India and the British Minister
at Tehran shall be sent at half rates.
ARTICLE X.
In view of the erection of the new line and of the increase of
telegraph stations in Eastern Persia, and in order to facilitate
intercourse with them, the Indo-European Telegraph Department
shall place an additional wire along the existing line between
Tehran and Kasha*, and the expenses of procuring, transporting,
and putting up this wire will be borne by the Persian Government
in the manner provided by Articles II and IV of this Convention.
ARTICLE XL
The following Articles of the Telegraph Convention of 1872
shall apply to this line, viz.-Articles VI, VIII, IX, XI,
XIII, XV, and XVII.
ARTICLE XII.
This Convention shall remain in force until the 1 st January,
1925 , or for such longer period as the debt due by Persia for the
construction of the line remains unpaid, and at such date it may
if necessary be renewed or revised, but it shall be competent foi
the British Government at any time before the expiry of this
Convention, on giving six months’ notice, to hand over the line in
its existing condition to the Persian Government, and to withdraw
its officers and employes from the country, ceasing from that ihite
to have any further connection with this Persian telegraph. But
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A report by Mr H A Armstrong, Assistant Superintendent, Indian Telegraph Department. Printed at the Government Central Printing Office, Simla, 1901. The report is a survey of a potential route for extending a telegraph line from India to Persia, running from Quetta to Bam, with an alternative route going to Pahra. The volume contains a description of the routes taken, estimates of cost, and notes on alignment, marking out, location of offices, shelter huts for linestaff, maintenance, water, sand, supplies, climate, and the Quetta-Siestan [Sistan] trade route.
Throughout the report are black and white photographs of the route that accompany the descriptions (folios 26,28, 30, 32, 34, 37, 39, 41, 46, 49, 51, 52, 63, 67, 70, and 71). Folio 23 is a map showing the route taken. Enclosed at the front of the volume is a copy of the 'Convention between The United Kingdom and Persia extending the System of Telegraphic Communication between Europe and India Through Persia', 1902 (folios 2-6), and twelve loose sheets of manuscript notes on the report written by George Curzon (folios 7-18).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 79; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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