ملف ٥٦٤٦\١٩١٨ "بلاد فارس وبلاد الرافدين: ترتيبات التلغراف المستقبلية" [ظ‎‎١‎٤‎٠] (٣٠٣/٢٩٢)

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Article XI.
The following Articles of the Telegraph Convention of 1872 shall apply to this line, viz. :—
Articles VI, VIII, IX, XI, XIII, XV, and XVII.
Article XII.
This Convention shall remain in force until the 1st January 1925, or for such longer
period as the debt due by Persia for the construction of the line remains unpaid, and at
such date it may if necessary be renewed or revised, but it shall be competent for the British
Government at any time before the expiry of this Convention, on giving six months’ notice,
to hand over the line in its existing condition to the Persian Government, and to withdraw
its officers and employes from the country, ceasing from that date to have any further con
nection with this Persian Telegraph. But in this case the Persian Government shall be free
from any further payment on account of the construction of the line.
The ratifications of the present Convention shall be exchanged at Tehran within five
months, or sooner if practicable.
Done at Tajrisch, in quadruplicate, this sixteenth day of the month of August, in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one.
(l.s.) Arthur H. Hardinge.
(l.s.) Signature of Persian Plenipotentiary.
XXV.
Agreement respecting Construction of Telegraph Line from
Henjam to Bunder Abbas (1905).
His Excellency the Mushir-ed-Dowleh, Minister for Foreign Affairs of His Imperial Majesty
the Shah of Persia, and Sir Arthur Hardinge, K.C.B., His Britannic Majesty’s Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, representing the Indo-European Telegraph
Department of the Government of India, on the other part duly authorised thereto by their
respective Governments, has concluded the following Agreement: —
1. The Persian Government having resolved to construct a line of telegraph to connect the
Indo-European Telegraph station at Henjam with Bunder Abbas across Kishm, and His
Majesty’s Government having authorised the Indo-European Telegraph Department to provide
the engineers and materials necessary for the construction, it is agreed that two European
engineers with the necessary employes and labourers shall be temporarily placed by the
Department for the purpose at the disposal of the Persian Government, and that the telegraph
ship belonging to the Department shall, as soon as the season permits, lay the two submarine
ends between Henjam and Bunder Abbas respectively, and after completing the work they
shall return.
2. As soon as the line is complete and the cost of materials and charges of the engineers
and telegraph ship have been paid, the line shall be handed over to the Persian Ministry of
Telegraphs. The Persian Government shall also have a telegraph office built at Henjam at
their own cost, and appoint Persian telegraphists. The Bunder Abbas line shall be connected
with the Persian telegraph office at Henjam, and all messages for abroad which are received
from Bunder Abbas, and which are to be communicated by the English telegraph office at
Henjam, shall be received by the Persian telegraph office and immediately transmitted to the
English telegraph office.
3. The charges to lie made by the Indo-European Department for the services of the
engineers and telegraph ship shall not exceed Rs. 75,000, and the payment of the above sum
is guaranteed by the Persian Government.
4. The declaration of the Persian Government that it will not employ foreign, i.e.,
non-Persian, subjects in the working of the line shall not be held to preclude it ’ from
employing at the usual charges such subjects in the service of the Indo-European Telegraph
Department fox anv lepans to the submarine cables or other works which may be necessary
in connection with the maintenance and upkeep of the line, nor from allowing at the Bunder
Abbas office a British signaller to deal with State messages sent on behalf of the British
Government to and fiom its Consulate at Bunder Abbas, should the British Government
desire it.
Done in duplicate at Tehran on the 13th day of May in the year 1905 equivalent to the
8th day of Rebbi-ul-Avvel m the year 1323 A.H.
(Seal) (Signed) Arthur H. Hardinge.
(Seal) (Signed) Signature of Mushir-ed-Dowleh.