ملف رقم ٣٦٣٢ لسنة ١٩١٢ "برقيات - الاتصالات اللاسلكية في بلاد فارس" [ظ‎‎١‎٣‎٩] (٦٤٠/٢٨٣)

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Contract made between the Telegraph General Department, represented
by the provisional Director General, Alvaro de Mellq Coutinho de Vilhena,
on the authority given in the order, No. 53, of the 17th of February of this
year, from the Ministry of Industry, Railways and Public Works, and
between the Compagnie Fran^aise des Cables Telegraphiques, represented
by its delegate in Brazil, Barao de Capanema, for the leasing of a tele
graphic wire, the property of the United States of Brazil, from Pinheiro
to Belem, to the Company in question, which shall be designated the
Contracting Company in this contract, under the following clauses.
I.
The Brazilian Government binds itself to place at the disposal of the
Contracting Company one of the telegraph wires which connect the stations
of Pinheiro and Belem, and which shall be maintained by the Telegraph
Department at the cost of the said Contracting Company.
II.
The amount which the Contracting Company shall contribute for the
maintenance of the leased wire shall be 1,800 milreis (corresponding to the
salary of a lineman* of the 1 st class) paid b}^ half-yearly advances. Subse
quently the service of maintenance may be made by the Contracting
Company, the clauses relative to this point only being altered.
III.
This contribution shall be paid independently of the working or not of the
Contracting Company’s cable.
IV.
In contracting to cede one conducting wire, the precise one of the two
existing conducting wires is not specified. In the case of the failure of the
one conducting wire, the other which remains in good condition shall be
used ; and, in the case of the two wires coming into contact with one another
so as to disturb the service, one of the terminals of the conducting wires
shall be disconnected in the Government station at Pinheiro so as to
guarantee an efficient service.
V.
The Brazilian Government accepts no responsibility towards the Con
tracting Company as regards temporary defects which may affect the
conducting wires.
VI.
The leased wire shall be used only for the external service with the
exception, however, of the service messages of the Contracting Company
between Pinheiro and Belem.
VII.
The international service affecting the leased wire shall be carried out in
accordance with Clause 11 of the Decree No. 21Ga of the 22nd of February
1890, which concedes to the Contracting Company authority for the commu
nications between the State of Para and the United States of North America,
that is, the guaranteeing by Government to the Contracting Company of the
exclusive right to transmit, under the stipulation of the international regu
lations, telegrams handed in at the telegraphic stations of the United States of
Brazil and addressed to the United States of North America and to Central
America or coming from those countries.
VIII.
The special telegraphic service over this wire in the conditions laid down
in the foregoing clause shall be carried on, both at Belem and Pinheiro, by
employees of the Contracting Company.
IX.
There shall be granted at the official station in Belem, the necessary
accommodation for the installation of the apparatus and records of the
Contracting Company, for which there shall be contributed a third of the
annual rent paid by the Department.
* Guarda.