ملف ٥٦٤٦\١٩١٨ "بلاد فارس وبلاد الرافدين: ترتيبات التلغراف المستقبلية" [ظ‎‎١‎٣‎٥] (٣٠٣/٢٨٢)

for erectin 0- and working a line of telegraph between the Russian frontiei (Djoulfa) and
Teheran. Such line to form the continuation of a direct line between London and Djoulfa.
2 The Ooncessionnaires hereby undertake to establish the line, so that it may be
finished and be ready to be opened along its entire length, at the latest, within a delay of
two years after receiving the present Concession. Any prolongation of this teim can only
be conceded in the event of the execution of the works being delayed by circumstances
beyond the control of the Concessionnaires.
3. The Concessionnaires hereby undertake to construct the line in a durable manner,
and to keep it in good working order during the whole term of the Concession. The conducting
wires shall be manufactured <of the best quality iron, and shall be at least six millimetres
in diameter. The posts shall be of iron. The Concessionnaries shall be bound to submit
to the Persian Government, for their approval, the plan for erecting the line from Djoulfa
to Teheran. The line shall, at first, consist of two wires, but should it become necessary,
the Concessionnaires shall have the light of increasing the number of wires. The Conces
sionnaires furthermore undertake to provide their stations with instruments of the best
quality, Previous to the line being worked notice shall be given to the Persian Government.
Wheresoever it be practical to do so, the Concessionnaires shall establish their stations
in the buildings employed by the Persian Telegraph, and the Concessionnaires shall defray
the outlay attending the same. Should the buildings where the stations are situate not
offer convenient accommodation, the Concessionnaires shall, at their own cost, find other
places.
4. The Concessionnaires’ line shall be exclusively employed for the transmission of
messages between India and Europe. The Persian Telegraph Administration shall hand over
to the Concessionnaires for transmission to their respective destinations all the telegrams by
them received for India or for Europe. Any telegrams coming from India, or from Europe
for Persia, shall be handed over by the Concessionnaires to the competent Persian Telegraph
stations for transmission by the same to the parties to whom they are addressed. The Con
cessionnaires are hereby prohibited from holding any direct communication vdth the public
for the purpose of receiving or forwarding messages.
5. The line of telegraph situate upon Persian territory shall be considered a Govern
ment institution ; and as regards its maintenance and protection it shall enjoy all the rights
which are granted to the telegraph lines belonging to the Persian Government.
6 . The Persian Government hereby exempts the Concessionnaires from payment of
import duties and customs charges upon the materials destined for erecting the Persian
portion of the line. The Persian Government shall be previously informed of the quantity
of materials which are to be imported. The Concessionnaires are hereby likewise exempted
from payment of all taxes and rates. The customs officers of the Persian custom-house
shall have the right of searching the loads belonging to the Concessionnaires.
7. The Concessionnaires shall have their right of carrying their line in the direction
sanctioned by the Persian Government through the towns and villages along the public
highways without being required to pay any indemnity for the ground taken up by the line.
In the places where the line shall run across any private property or properties belonging
to the municipalities, the Concessionnaires are hereby vested vdth the right of compulsory
expropriation, in accordance with the regulations in force and to the extent which the
Government may consider indispensable.
8 . The following regulations are determined upon as concerns the fixing of the tariff
for the Indo-European correspondence :—
(a) In distinction from the tariffs in general use and by way of exception, half messages
or telegrams of 10 words may be sent at half the charges fixed for ordinary
telegrams of 20 words.
(b) For every additional 25 words over and above 20 words, one-fourth of the rate shall be
charged more than the rate charged for telegrams of 20 words.
(c) The maximum rate charged for the ordinary telegram of 20 words from London to the
western part of India shall not exceed 4Z. sterling from the moment that <the
charge in the English tariff for telegrams transmitted by the submarine fines
along the Persian Gulf and the Indian seas, shall have been reduced to one-
half its present rate ; until such reductions shall have taken place, the price for
a telegram of 20 words shall not be higher than that charged for the transmission
of a similar telegram between Europe and India by way of the Turkish line.
(d) The tariff for the ^correspondence between India and the intermediate stations shall be
fixed by the Concessionnaires at their discretion, on condition that the charge for
transmitting any message to the Indies from any intermediate station shall in no
case exceed the rate charged for the whole line.