"الملف 73/7 II (D 22) وضع الكويت - سكة حديد بغداد، والمفاوضات الأنجلو تركية" [ظ‎‎١‎١‎٥] (٥٤٠/٢٣٦)

10. Any sums which it may become necessary for the -Commission to
borrow for the purpose of carrying out the duties imposed upon it shall be ad
vanced by the high contracting parties at a rate of interest not exceeding 5
per cent, per annum, in such proportions and upon such terms as to repayment
as they may arrange.
11. The control of all funds raised and expended by the Commission shall be
vested exclusively in the Commission.
12. The Commission shall publish annually complete and accurate accounts^
showing the amounts received and expended by it.
13. If the receipts of the Commission are insufficient to cover its expenditure
the deficit shall be made good by the Imperial Ottoman Government.
14. In the event of the members of the Commission being unable to agree
as to whether any particular works are or are not necessary for the improve
ment of the Shatt-el-Arab, or as to the way in which particular works should
be carried out, the question shall be referred by them to an engineer of reputej
to be agreed upon by the commissioners, or, failing agreement, to be nominated
by the president of the Institute of Civil Engineers in London, and the decision
of such engineer shall be adopted by the Commission.
15. The Commission shall correspond upon all matters connected with the
duties entrusted to it with the Ministry of Public Works at Constantinople direct,
and not through the local authorities.
16. The local authorities shall not interfere in any way with the houses,
buildings, land, oi other property of the Commission, or with its funds, or with the
discharge of jfcheir duties by the officers of by the police, pilotage, or other services
maintained by the Commission, or with wharfs, jetties, docks, or quays in or on
the banks of the river belonging to private persons.
17. The transfer to the Commission of any buoys or lights in the approach
es to the Shatt-el-Arab shall not be deemed to affect/ the territorial juris
diction in the waters where such buoys or lights are placed, or be made a ground
on the part of the^ Imperial Ottoman Government for claiming that such waters
are within its territorial jurisdiction.
18. The Imperial Ottoman Government will offer no objection to the contin
uance of the custom whereby the war-ships of His Britannic Majesty freely
ascend the Shatt-el-Arab as far as Kurna.
19 This agreement is made for a period of twenty years ; after the expira
tion of that period it shall be open to either of the high contracting parties to
determine the agreement by a year's notice.
. ^ 1 (( nforma % to the Army Department for transmission to the Divi
sion of the Chief of the Staff.)
{Received on 17th June 1912, with Political Secretary's letter No 22 dated the 31st
May 1912.)
[A.]
ASIATIC TURKEY AND ARABIA. [May 16.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
[16000] No. 1.
F
(Confidential.)
am directed by Secretary
;her a comnittee, composed