"مجموعة من المعاهدات والالتزامات والسندات المتعلقة بالهند والدول المجاورة" [‎١‎٩‎٦] (٥٧٨/٢١٣)

196 PERSIA— Telegraphs — NOS. XXXIV—1905 AND XXXV—1913.
construction, it is agreed that two European engineers with the necessary employes
and labourers shall be temporarily placed by the Department for the purpose
at the disposal of the Persian Government, and that the telegraph ship belonging
to the Department shall, as soon as the season permits, lay the two submarine
ends between Henjam and Bunder Abbas respectively, and after completing the
work they shall return.
2. As soon as the line is complete and the cost of materials and charges of the
engineers and telegraph ship have been paid, the line shall be handed over to the
Persian Ministry of Telegraphs. The Persian Government shall also have a tele
graph office built at Henjam at their own cost, and appoint Persian telegraphists.
I he Bunder Abbas line shall be connected with the Persian telegraph office at
Henjam and all messages for abroad which are received from Bunder Abbas and
which are to be communicated by the English telegraph office at Henjam ’shall
be received by the Persian telegraph office and immediately transmitted to the
English telegraph office.
' ® . arges t0 be made b y tIle Indo-European Department for the services
°, ® Engineers and telegraph ship shall not exceed l!s. 75,000, and the payment
ot she above sum is guaranteed by the Persian Government.
i. The declaration of the Persian Government that it will not employ foreign
*.e non-Persian, subjects in the. working of the line shall not be held to preclude
i rom employing at the usual charges such subjects in the service of the Indo-
European Telegraph Department for any repairs to the submarine cables or other
of thel7„e T be " e “ SSary in connection «>e maintenance and upkeep
of thehne, nor from allowing at the Bunder Abbas office a British signaller to deal
p h S^e messages sent on behalf of the British Government to and from its
Consulate at Bunder Abbas, should the British Government desire it.
to the°8th dfvof R^bb* 'fr ■ n th g 13th <1ay ° f May in the 1905 equivalent
ro tne otii day of Rebbi-ul-Avvei in the year 1323 A. H.
Arthur H. Hardinge,
Mushir-ed-Dowleh.
Ho. XXXV.
iS'ote addressed to Chief Direct™? nf
DIRECTOR Of lELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT of BRITISH
Government,— 1913 .
{Translation.)
In reply to your letters on the subject of remi™ A v • ,
stitution of iron poles for wooden ones I have the hot e r SUl "
Convention referring to this line dated the At] '" onn y 011 as the
. , - S ’ dated the 28th Jemadi-uI-Ewel, 1327, which