ملف ٥٦٤٦\١٩١٨ "بلاد فارس وبلاد الرافدين: ترتيبات التلغراف المستقبلية" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٢] (٣٠٣/٢٧٥)

British Government shall make arrangements with regard to the construction and efficient
working of a line of telegraph between Gwadur and a point between Jask and Bunder
Abbas.
II. The Persian Government will employ, as far as possible, their good offices and
authority for facilitating its construction, maintenance, and protection; and the English
f Government will pay annually to the Persian Government the sum of 3,000 tomans for
leave to lav down the line of telegraph on those coasts and places which are under the
sovereignty of Persia, the payment of the above sum being made from the day on which the
work of laying the wires is commenced.
III. The present convention shall remain in force twenty years.
IV. The present convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at Teheran
within five months, or sooner, if practicable.
Done at Teheran on the 2nd day of April, A.D., 1868.
(L.S.) C. Alison.
(L.S.) Meerza Saeed Khan.
IX.
Translation of an Agreement entered into by the Naib of Kedj,
DATED THE llTH FEBRUARY 1869.
In continuation of, and in the terms of, the Agreement concluded in the_year 1862, with
the consent of the Khan of Beluchistan, Sirdar Meer Fuqueer Mahomed, Naib of Kedj, now
undertakes to guarantee the protection of the Telegraph line from the Gwadur to the Baho
boundarv and also gives a similar assurance on the part of Meer Bhayan, Gitchki. Hie
British Government to pay the said Sirdar the sum of Rs. 1,500 annually, the Sirdar to place
at the disnosal of the Telegraph Superintendent, two line riders on Rs. 20 monthly each to be
Pbetween Gwadufand Bade, The pay of these guards to be deducted from the sard
sum of Rs 1,500 and paid to the men through the Telegraph Superintendent. This agreement
to have effect from 1st January 1869.
The above memorandum was written on 11th February 1869, sealed by Fuqueer
Mahomed.
Original sealed before me by Mulla Dora.
X.
Tiunslation of an Agreement made wm, Shah N--T REPRESENTAnvE of the Ch.ef
OF GaIH, FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE TELEGRAPH LlNE, DATED OTH MARC
In consideration of the annual sum of Rs. 3 000 guaranteed to be 11 ^ °^ ei ^ ^ah
Nusrut, on behalf of the A *1 “
Goldsmid, G.B Uirector-m-Chief lAhe c3ok of Gaih pledges himself to afford security
his own part and as representative “r^Vhted from Charbar to Sadeich.
% ^4 to be paid by the Telegraph
officers at the rate of Rs. 20 per , 11 f'"L" | ' Ac' half-yearlv by Captain Ross, or other British
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cancelled. m -esence of Colonel Goldsmid and Captain
Sealed by Shah Nusrut and Nowraz Kha P t } iere i n at Charbar, this fifth
Ross, whose signatures are affixed m token of their engageme
day of March 1869.
(Sd.)
(Sd.)
F. J. Goldsmid,
Lieutenant-Colonel.
E. C. Ross,
Captain.