ملف ٥٦٤٦\١٩١٨ "بلاد فارس وبلاد الرافدين: ترتيبات التلغراف المستقبلية" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٧] (٣٠٣/٢٨٥)

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Government for the purchase of telegraph materials as well as the debts which the adminis-
oflrii'ne n ^ mCUrred With the Same Government for the construction
The amount of these debts should be determined before the 1st January 1871 by the
Persian and English Governments. Beginning from this date the Concessionaires will be
authorised to reimburse themselves by deduct! ng each year the twenty-fourth part of the
sum agreed upon by the aforesaid Governments from the rent or the duties payable to the
In case the settlement of the account between the said Governments has not taken effect
at the date mentioned, then another term shall be fixed for this settlement—a term which is
not to exceed one year. The Concessionnaires shall then have the right to reimburse
themselves by retaining each year a sum equal to the twenty-third part of the sum
determined upon.
If again the accounts shall not ha\’e been settled at this last term, then the Concessionnaires
will be freed from this obligation.
11.
1 . In addition, the Persian Government grants to the actual possessors of the Concession
of the 11th January 1868 a concession exclusively for the construction and working of a
telegraph line .of one wire between Shiraz and Bunder Abbas. The Concessionnaires are
obliged to advise the Persian Government as to the direction of the line before proceeding to
construct it.
2. The Concessionnaires bind themselves to complete the construction of this line as soon
as possible.
3. The Concessionnaires bind themselves to construct the line and to maintain it in good
state of preservation during the whole period of their administration.
The telegraphic wire shall be made of iron of the bes^ quality, and shall be six millimetres
at least in diameter. The supports shall be of iron ; the apparatus shall be of the best
quality. Whenever possible the stations shall be located at Shiraz in the offices of the Persian
Telegraph ; in other places in such sites as the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Conces
sionnaires shall deem suitable, and which shall be gratuitously granted to the latter, from land
belonging to the Persian Government.
4. Like the lines already existing, the new line is equally destined for the despatch of
international messages, which shall pass over the line of the Concessionnaires between London
and Teheran.
5. The line will be considered as if it was an institution of the Government and will
participate, under the relations of its organisation and of its security, in all the. rights granted
to the lines of the Persian Government.
6 . The Concessionnaires are exempted by the Persian Government from _ the payment of
customs duty on the importation of materials for the establishment and maintenance of this
line and of its offices, and thev are freed from all local duties. The customs authorities shall,
however, have the right of inspecting the consignments belonging to the Concessionnaires on
the frontier.
7. The Concessionnaires shall have the right of constructing their line in the direction
sanctioned by the Government across towns and vullages along loads, without being bound to
pay any indemnity for the land occupied by the line. In those places where the lines shall
traverse private or common property, the Concessionnaires shall enjoj- the light of forced
appropriation conformably to the laws in force, and to the extent that the Government shall
judge indispensable.
8 . The duration of the Concession is fixed at 25 years, to reckon from the day when the
working of Shiraz-Bunder Abbas line shall have commenced After the expiration of this
period the privilege shall cease ; and the Concessionnaires should come to an understanding
with the Persian Government on the subject of the continuation of their possession of this
In the case of no arrangement having been concluded on this subject all the line constructed
by virtue of this Concession, as well as the buildings of the stations, shall be giv en up to the
Persian Government without any indemnity.
9 The duration of the Shiraz-Bunder Abbas Concession expiring after the 1st January
li«. *• Shiraa-Bunder Abb.. .Ml —1 lor
some time in the hands of the Concessionnaires.
* Paragraphs 1 to 10
and XXII.
of Article II. were subsequently annulled by the Ooneession of 1882. See Nos. XXI