‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎187] (204/578)

PER ST A— Telegraphs —NO. XXXI—1872.
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Article 4.
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After the completion of the third wire, notice of which will be given to the
Persian Government by the Director of the English Staff, the appropriation of
the three wires shall be as follows:
The first wire, viz., the one set up originally in 1864, shall be used for locaj
traffic, while the second and third wires shall be used for international traffic
with the exceptions hereinafter specified in Article 6.
Article 5.
To prevent any confusion in the working of the different wires, the first wire
shall be worked by Persian Government employes and the second and third wires
by English Government employes, separate rooms being provided by the Persian
Government for the said English and Persian employes in Telegraph Offices con
sidered suitable by both administrations.
Article 6.
(a) Should the first wire be broken at any time, one of the others shall be
temporarily lent for Persian correspondence until communication by the first
wire is restored, provided always that both the second and third wires are at the
time in good working order throughout their length and free from contact.
(b) Should the first wire be in contact with either the second or third wire*
while the remaining wire is clear, the wire in contact with the first wire shall be
insulated, to allow free working by the Persian employes on the first wire, until
the contact is removed.
(o) Should the first wire be in contact with the second or third, while the
remaining one is interrupted, or should both second and third wires be interrupt
ed, or should all three wires at any time be in contact, the resultant single line
shall be used by the English and Persian administrations in the respective pro
portions of two-thirds to one-third of the day, the exact hours to be fixed by mutual
agreement between the English and Persian Directors.
Article 7.
The revenue derived from the local traffic on the Persian wire shall belong
entirely to the Persian Government. By local traffic are meant messages origi
nating at one Persian station and terminating at another Persian station.
Article 8.
The Persian Government having already made an arrangement with the Indo-
European Telegraph Company regarding the revenue derived from the Indo-
European traffic, the English Government will abide by that agreement so far
as they are concerned. That is to say, the Persian Government in consideration
of a fixed annual payment by the said Company of either twelve thousand (12,000)
tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. or of two (2) francs per message of twenty (20) words renounces all claims