File 3939/1926 Pt 5 'Revision of Aitchison's Treaties: Persia, Seistan, Kerman and Persian Baluchistan' [‎249r] (491/558)

PERSIA—TELEGRAPHS.
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Government, though the protection of the line was to remain with Persia:
and that all receipts up to 30,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. a year should be credited to
Persia, the surplus, if any, being made over to the British Government
for the cost of their establishment. As the receipts did not amount to
this sum in any one year, the cost of establishments and maintenance,
Rs. 1,20,000, fell entirely on the British Government. In 1868,
however, the Persian Government granted * a 25-year concession to
Messrs. Siemens for the construction and management of a telegraph
line between Julia and Tehran: and in 1869, by a “ treaty ” t con
cluded with Mr. George Siemens on behalf of the Indo-European Tele
graph Company, they added a concession for the erection and working
of a telegraph line between Shiraz and Bandar Abbas, to expire on the
1st January 1905, and extended the term of the Julfa-Tehran concession
to the same date. These agreements included arrangements by which
the British Government were relieved of a portion of the charges on the
Khanikin-Bushire line. Under these arrangements the Company
agreed to pay the Persian Government a fixed annual subsidy of 12,000
tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. in lieu of the 30,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. formerly credited to Persia by the
British Government; to deduct from this subsidy an annual instalment
of 0 ne twenty-fourth of the debt due by Persia to the British Govern
ment on account of the cost of construction: and to pay that sum to the
British Government, It was agreed that, until that debt was liquidated
or so lon^ as the British Government held the concession of the line, the
Companv should also pay them a moiety of the surplus m excess of
the subsidy of 12,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. a year. It was further agreed that if e
convention of 1865 was not renewed to the British Government, the
Company were to have the concession; but, in the case of its renewal,
they were to receive from the Persian Government two-thirds of the
receipts accruing from the international messages sent on the whole line
from Bushire to Julia, the remaining one-third already belonging tothe
Company by virtue of Article 9 of the Concession of 1868 (Appendix
Gwattur Line. In 1868 a Convention (No. was concluded,
by which, in order to provide against any accident to t e ersian
cable, it was agreed that, in consideration of an -nual payment o
3 000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. , the British Government should construct and work a
Le of teTegraph between Gwattur and a point between J-k and Bandar
Abbas. As originally drawn, this Convent.on expned rn 1888^ut, by
mutual declarations made in 1887 (see annexure to ^o.
was prolonged till 1905, and in 1892 it was agarn prolonged trl 1925
Khanikin-Bushire 3rd Line. The telegraph Convention o
(No. XXVj4 expir ed in 1872, when it was renewed for ^_ pema
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