ملف ٥٦٤٦\١٩١٨ "بلاد فارس وبلاد الرافدين: ترتيبات التلغراف المستقبلية" [و‎‎١‎٢‎٩] (٣٠٣/٢٦٩)

2 . The Persian Government vill assign a snni sufficient for the construction of this
telegraph and foi the puichase of such materials as are not procurable in Persia, or can be
better obtained in Europe.
3. The Pei si an Government engages to purchase from the English Government all the
materials which ai e bettei procurable in Europe, and the English Government agree to
supply such materials at moderate prices.
4. In order that the said line of telegraph may be well constructed and officially
worked, the Persian Government agrees to place it under the superintendence of an
English Engineer Officer who is to be paid by the English Government, and they further
agree to fix a period during which instruction may be given and the line may be brought
into good working order ; and His Royal Highness the Itizad-oo-Sultaneh, the Minister of
Public Instruction, and His Excellency the Amin-ed-Dowleh will have cognizance of the
aforesaid officer’s proceedings.
5. The said officer will be fully empowered to call upon the Persian authorities to supply
any materials he may consider requisite for this work, and the Persian authorities will make
no alteration in his requisitions, unless it should be impossible to obtain the thing
required. But a Persian officer will accompany him everywhere, so that he may be informed
of what is done, and of the prices of the materials; and the accounts will be audited by the
above-mentioned Prince and by the Amin-ed-Dowleh every three months, when a report will
he drawn up and printed in the Teheran Gazette.
6 . In order to increase the friendship between the two Governments and to promote the
above undertaking, the English Government engages to purchase in England at reasonable
rates, with the approval of the Persian Minister Plenipotentiary, the materials required for
this work and to convey them to Persian frontier, and to receive from the Persian Government
the price paid for the above articles by five instalments in five years after they are delivered
on the frontier of Persia.
(In the handwriting of the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs.)
The Persian Government accepts this engagement. If the English Government desires
it, the construction of the line of telegraph will be commenced in conformity with the above
stipulation.
Approved and accepted by Her Majesty’s Government on 6 th Iebruary I 860 .
V.
Engagement between Great Britain and Turkey for the Extension of
Line from Baghdad to Bussora and to Khanakain (I860;.
a Telegraph
Protocol.
Consequent upon the exchange of notes which has taken place between the Embassy
of Her Britannic Majesty and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of His Majesty the Sultan on
the subject of the extension of the line above ground from Baghdad to Bussoia and to
Khanakain, with the object of connecting by two different lines the Indian Telegraphs mth
the telegraphic net-work of Europe, the Ambassador of Her B "q™ c
Sublime Porte and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultan, with a view to t s, .
decided on the following arrangement:
Article I.—The Ottoman Government will extend at its own expense—
(1) The line above ground from Baghdad to Bussora „ . . ,, p ;
(2) It will construct a line above ground from Baghdad to Klmnakain on the iers a
Frontier. These two lines shall consist of two wires, of which tire one
kept exclusively for direct messages. . ,
-x • m of m nwn cost shall carry the Indian submarine
2. The Indian Government, on its ^ a ‘ ‘‘"y™ “p other poid at the mouth of the
cable, which joins at Bushire, eitbei to Busso 1 t d with the line
Shat-el-Arab, which shall be designated later, and wiuen snan
above ground. . furnish to the Ottoman Government all the
3. The Indian Government bemdes shaH ™ q£ t!ie tw0 lines
necessary materials, including the poles o
above ground before mentioned. „ lre adv at Baghdad, as also the Inspector and
The two Telegraphic Engmeeis who c . expected to arrive in that city,
the four sub-officers of "the British ^f^y^GbritlsTcmopiraT in the construction of
shah be placed at the disposal of the Ottoman authorities ope
these lines. , „ r ,„, fnr tlie materials thus furnished by the Indian
4. The Ottoman Government shah P J , j ,[ 0 messages from India, which shall
Government with the money received to & dp Ottoman Empire, be it to Bussora
traverse the line of the extreme European ion