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, irpnairs and tlie appointment, control and
X. The maintenance of the line m q£ ^ Englisll Dh'ector and staff. As a
payment of the line-guards, shall ema Persian Government will pay to the
contribution towards the expenditoe under tius^ amount being deducted from the
English ^Wr^tor^the^suin^of^l.fiW)^^^^^ Telegra ph Company as hereinbefore described m
r A^e du t? d J e S g of the Telegraph Inspectors and Line-guards are strictly confined to 1
repairing and maintaining the line. p ersiall Government will take the most stringent
If the line be vyilfu y ,i to annrehend and punish the offenders.
measures to oblige the local authorities t0 a P^ X'^^ucted to pay prompt attention to all
The Governors of districts will be a c c oi r g En Ush officers.
COm |n 1 ncaiTaTy^UW damage to the line, the expense of repairing the same shall he
and otfices, and thereby to P 10 ' lde f .° ■ th f rderg and regulations issued by him regarding
impediment to ^.^0 — mamier of testing the lines shall be
sUictl^obeyed^hy the Persian ^^P^f^^fo^by die Persian Government to the
XIV. It having been ascertained that ftedebt^owe^ J wire) tcgather wi th
English Government on accoun { the fil . gt wire and the payment of line-guards
some items connected with the ^ 115 079 kraIls 8 , or 47,217 pounds sterling,
amounted on the 31st Decern x ' payment without interest in the course of twenty-
foh^On t7e™urTual instalnL.ts of the same from the Indo-European Telegraph
CO Touh the aforesaid Indo-European Telegraph Company wish to pay the amount in
p“c7LSnttand\ P m then hold the Persian Government responsible for any port,on
of the debt remaining unpaid id d to invalidate any claim on the Indo-European
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granted by the English staff from abroad, for the service of the line,
shall be exempt from customs ? f hj ' 68 “theTeheran-Bushire Section, but shall apply
jms ssaaste sA sx»*-*
shall 0 b^seVled by a special arrangement betiveen the English an^^ersian^Adnumsj'auoiian^
„i v *A d ;=d“r ss& *«- - *•
British Representative at Teheran. which its ratifications are
Will. This convention shad take effect hom the day on wmen iib . ^
Pers^nTorernmenchid the Persian
Telegraph. ^ ^ of tEe third wire> it s l la ll be competent for the English Govenr
and employes from the country, ceasing from that date to have an\ fu
the |rTh T r e atific a ations of the present convention shall he exchanged at Teheran within five
months or sooner if practicable. . , r i nrrl
Done at Teheran, in quadruplicate, this second day of December in the year o o
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)
(Sd.)
\Sd.).
Mirza Syud Khan.
Ronald F. Thomson.
Discontinued. ‘ See Government of India Despatch No. 6 T., dated 12th June 1894.