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du Chemin de Fer de Bagdad pour Tex^cution des 840 kilom. de ligne susmentionnds
sera regie par une convention speciale simultanement avec la presente convention
additionnelle.
La presente convention additionnelle a, conformement a Tirade Imperial promulgud
par Sa Majeste Imperiale le Sultan, ete faite en double, signee et ^changee a Constanti
nople le 3 djemazi-ul-ewel, 132G (le 20 mai, 1324 (2 juin, 1908)).
Societe Imperiale ottomane du Chemin de Fer de Bagdad :
E D. HUGUENIN, Administrateur-Dcleque.
CH. HELFF ERICH, Administrateur.
Sceau du Ministkre du Commerce et des Travaux publics,
& ZIHNL
Certifid conforme k 1’original:
Le Chef du Bureau de Traduction du Ministere du
Commerce et des Travaux publics,
Boghos.
(Translation.)
Bagdad Railway Convention, February 20, 1318 (March 5, 1903).
BETWEEN his Excellency Zihui Pasha, Minister of Commerce and Public Works,
acting in the name of the Imperial Ottoman Government, of the first part;
M. Arthur Gwinner, president of the board of directors, Dr. Kurt Zander,
director-general, and M. Edouard Huguenin, assistant director-general of the Ottoman
Anatolian Railway, acting in the name and on behalf of the Ottoman Anatolian
Railway Company at Constantinople, of the second part, it has been decided as
follows :—
Article 1.
The Imperial Ottoman Government grant the concession for the construction
and working of an extension of the line from Konia to Bagdad and Busra,
passing through, or as near as possible to, the towns of Karaman, Eregli, Kardash-
Beli, Adana, Hamidieh, Osmanieh, Bagtcheh, Kazanali, Killis, Tel-Habesh, Harran,
Ras-ul-Ain, Nisibin, Avniat, Mosul, Tekrit, Sadicljeh, Bagdad, Kerbela, Nedjef,
Zobeir, and Busra, as well as the following branches :—
1. From Tel-Habesh to Aleppo.
2. From a neighbouring point on the main line, to be agreed upon, to Urfa.
The Imperial Ottoman Government will not grant a guarantee, under any
form, for the construction of this branch line, about 30 kilom. in length, nor any
appropriation for working expenses, but the gross receipts of every description from
the branch line shall belong exclusively to the concessionnaires.
3. From Sadidjeh to Khauikin.
4. From Zobeir to a point on the Persian Gulf to be agreed upon between the
Imperial Ottoman Government and the concessionnaires, as well as everything apper
taining to the said lines. The main line and its branches shall follow a route to be
approved by the Imperial Ottoman Government—to the Ottoman Anatolian Railway
Company on the following conditions :—
* Agtmle 2. 1
The duration of this concession shall be ninety-nine years. A similar period shall
be adopted for the lines of Angora and Konia, and shall commence to run from the
date ol the issue of the firman and the exchange of the present convention.
As regards the new lines, this period of ninety-nine years shall commence to run
separately for each section from the date on which the Imperial Government shall have
issued the Government bonds to the concessionnaires in accordance with article 35 of
the present convention.
Article 3.
These lines, taken collectively, are divided, as regards the submission of the final
plans and designs, into sections of 200 kilom. in length. The concessionnaires shall,
within three months from the date of the issue of the firman granting the concession
and the exchange of the present convention and the specification (and after the
conditions of article 35 have been fulfilled), submit to the Ministry of Public Works,
after the survey has taken final shape, and in accordance with the terms of the
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