"مجموعة من المعاهدات والالتزامات والسندات المتعلقة بالهند والدول المجاورة" [‎١‎٥‎٤] (٥٧٨/٤٧٧)

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PERSIA— Telegraphs —APPENDIX NO. XXXII—1869.
liable to pay any indemnity for the land occupied by the line. In places where
the line shall pass through the property of private individuals or communities, the
grantees shall enjoy the right of compulsory appropriation in accordance with the
rules in force ; and in the proportion which the Government shall deem indispen
sable.
The duration of the concession is limited to 25 years, commencing from the
date on which the working of the Shiraz-Bunder Abbass line shall have begun.
After the expiration of this period the privilege shall cease, and the grantees shall
have to come to an understanding with the Persian Government on the subject
of their continued possession of this line. In case no arrangement on this point
shall have been come to the whole line organized by virtue of this concession,
together with the buildings at the stations, shall be made over to the Persian Govern
ment without any indemnity.
As the Shiraz-Bunder Abbass concession will expire after the 1st January
1895 the safety and rapidity of international traffic, which depend on uniformity
of administration, would probably be imperilled if at that time the Government
resumed the Joolfa-Tehran and Tehran-Bushire lines, while the Shiraz-Bunder
Abbass Ime still continued for some time in the hands of the grantees.
The Persian Government, wishing to obviate this inconvenience, and not
wishing to resume the Shiraz-Bunder Abbass line before the expiration of this
concession, so that it might not be compelled to indemnify the grantees for the
expenses of construction which they might not have yet incurred, consents to
extend the concession for the Joolfa-Tehran line and the arrangement regarding
ffie Tehran-Bushire line till the expiration of the Shiraz-Bunder Abbass conces
sions.
In return the grantees shall pay to the Persian Government for the working of
this line a sum of 1,000 tomans annually during the first-half of the 25 years, and
2,000 tomans annually during the second-half, the payment to commence from
the date on which the line is opened to international correspondence.
If the Joolfa-Tehran concession and the arrangement regarding the Tehran-
Bushire line are extended beyond the 1st January 1895, they shall pay from this
date, till the expiration of the Shiraz-Bunder Abbass concession, an annual subsidy
of 15,000 tomans in lieu of the 12,000 tomans fixed by Article I of the present
Agreement.
If, during the term of the concession, the grantees should set up additional
wires to increase the means of communication, the Persian Government engages
to pay the grantees, on the surrender of the line, an indemnity for these additional
wires fixed on an estimate made by a Government Commissioner and an authorized
Agent on the part of the grantees.
It shall at all times be lawful to the grantees to transfer the rights accorded
to them by the present concession, together with the obligations assumed by them,
to another Company, the rules of which ought to be sanctioned by the Govern
ment. It is agreed that the number of foreign employes throughout the whole
length of the Shiraz-Bunder Abbass line shall not exceed 50.