ملف ٥٦٤٦\١٩١٨ "بلاد فارس وبلاد الرافدين: ترتيبات التلغراف المستقبلية" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٩] (٣٠٣/٢٨٩)

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But the con cess loima ires have not to bear for this any costs, neither in manual labour
nor in material, nor m apparatus, nor contribute towards the maintenance of the offices so
installed.
Article 8.
From the date of this concession, the Concessionnaires free the Persian Government of all
^ costs of maintenance of its wire between leheran and Djoulfa, and they will always use all
their efforts to restore communication m the e\ent of an interruption of this wire. In return
for these services, the Peisian Government will obtain, for the Superintendents and Inspectors
of the Concessionnaiies, eveiy facility to allow them to travel with the greatest promptitude
and safety possible.
The Persian Government will immediately consider any complaint made by the Conces-
sionnaires of wilful damage done to the line, and will summarily punish any person guilty of
such offence.
Article 9.
It is understood that from the date of this concession, the Concessionnaires will be entitled
to one-third of all receipts derived from the Persian proportion of the price of messages
emanating on the Persian section of the Concessionnaires’ line and exchanged with Europe,
the Persian Government reserving to itself the two other thirds of these receipts.
Article 10.
The accounts relative to tire above messages should be communicated to those concerned
annually, as is exacted, by the Concession, dated the 11th January 1868, for the other
accounts between the Persian Government and the Concessionnaires, and by concession the
Concessionnaires will claim no interest on the amounts that may remain due, until the
expiration of one year after the submission of the accounts by the Concessionnaires, from
which date the Concessionnaires will be entitled to 5 per cent, interest.
Article 11.
Before the expiration of the present concession (that is to say, before the 1st February
1905) the Concessionnaires and Persian Government should come to some understanding as to
the conditions of a new contract for the working of their line, failing which the line from that
date will become the property of the Persian Government on the conditions stipulated in the
anterior concessions actually in force.
Article 12.
All the clauses in the Concessions of the 11th January 1868 and 24th May 1869 which aie
not annulled or modified by this present remain in force.
Done in duplicate at Teheran the 12th August eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
XXIII.
Agreement between Great Britain and Persia regarding the Limits of the
British Telegraph Station at Jask (188/j.
{Translation.)
With regard to the
feen dhfderas follows under date of the month of Jamadi A. H. 1304 (25th February
^That the Telegraph ^ 00 ®“ mTre^to i^i north oi t^ Teteg^h EsShiLf
meat is a distance of 200 yards making a total ^ '"J wiU £ e dravvn Ld the
limits of 900 yards; at the end of these 900 yatds an ire noun y in
Government of Jask shall have no right whatsoever on any account
the interior of those limits. . , nnr) i distant from the boundary
As the Telegraph Establishment 1 t0 the place where
agreed upon, it is decided that the i'j a ' ■ ^ u ^troy 0 r interfere with
they meet the limits be protected and i tse if C it is agreed to set aside a space around
them; and for the preservation of the wel VTlno vnrrls from the well.
the well to be walled in at a distance aU roun ° - Government Agent must be without
The customs and other buildings of the i ers an Lxove « between Mr. Flinch
the limits above agreed upon and be built on the place a 0 iee p
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