"XXII\٨ سكة حديد بغداد" [ظ‎‎٣‎٩] (١٩٤/٧٧)

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Chapter V. —Provisions relative to various Services.
Art. 26. In time of peace as in time of war the concessionnaires shall place at the
disposal of the Imperial Government, on a written requisition from the military
authorities, all carriages and other rolling stock and means of transport, whenever
the Government may have to send hy rail, either singly or in bodies, officers and
men, both military and naval, police and gendarmerie, as well as zaptiehs and
volunteers, their effects and mounts, all kinds of equipment, war material, and stores ;
the Government may even, if need be, take over the administration of the line with
its rolling stock and its staff. The transport shall be effected both in time of peace
and in time of war, whether it is effected by the concessionnaii es or the Government
occupying the line, at a third of the tariff rate, with the exception of the officers and
men, who shall he conveyed at a quarter of the tariff rate ; likewise the equipment and
other articles forwarded by passenger train shall be similarly transported at a third,
the officers and men at a quarter of the tariff rate. It is agreed that, in the case of
military transports, troops shall be entitled to the free transport of 30 kilog. of luggage
per head in addition to the articles which they carry with them or in the compartment
in which they travel. Luggage of this kind may consist of the following articles :—
Guns, knapsacks, cartridge-pouches, bread-bags, cans, clothes, boots, kitchen
utensils, ambulance stores, armourers’ and farriers’ materials, horse-clothing and
bandages, surgical instruments, medicines, tents, shovels, pick-axes, axes, musical instru
ments, and rations for the men during the railway journey.
Notwithstanding, should the Imperial Government require it, the concessionnaires
shall be bound to enter into a special agreement with the Minister of War for military
transports and consignments in accordance with the rules laid down for this purpose
in other countries.
Art. 27. The Government shall further be granted a reduction to a third of the
tariff rate for the conveyance of prisoners and convicts and their warders; for this
purpose the concessionnaires shall be bound to place at their disposal, whenever they
require it, the requisite number of second or third class compartments in the ordinary
trains.
Art. 28. The Government officials or agents whose business it is to inspect, control,
or supervise the construction and working of the railway, together with the officials
of the Administration of Telegraphs and Excise Revenue, shall travel free of charge in the
company’s carriages. The telegraphic apparatus for the State lines shall be transported
at a reduction of 20 per cent, on the tariff rates.
Art. 29. The company is bound to undertake, free of charge, the transport hy
ordinary passenger train of sealed mail-bags accompanied by the necessary officials;
for this purpose it will reserve in each passenger train one or more compartments in a
second class carriage—if necessary an entire carriage—according to the Government’s
requirements.
Should the Imperial Administration of Posts have a special carriage built for the
sole purpose of carrying the mails, and hand it over to the company, the latter shall
be bound to couple it to its trains and forward it free of charge.
The concessionnaires may not accept any foreign postal service without the previous
authorisation of the Government.
Art. 30. The concessionnaires are obliged to run daily at least one mixed train
in each direction.
Besides this mixed train, the company shall run at least one through express train
a-week between Haidar-Pasha and Aleppo and vice versa.
This direct express train shall run on at least every fortnight to the Persian Gulf
and vice versa.
The average speed of this train on the railway which forms the subject of the
present convention shall be not less than 45 kilom. an hour, including stops, during the
first five years from the opening to traffic of the whole of the main line.
On the expiration of those five years, the average speed of this direct train,
including stops, shall be not less than 60 kilom.
In addition to this, should the importance of the traffic prove the necessity for it,
the company shall run through trains, comprising first and second class carriages, the
average speed of which, between Haidar-Pasha and the Persian Gulf, and vice versa,
shall be not less than 40 kilom. an hour.
The present specification has, in accordance with the irade published by His