‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎150] (473/578)

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PERSIA— Telegraphs -— APPENDIX NO. XXNI—1868.
After the expiry of the term of the Anglo-Persian Convention above-mentioned
the Tehran-Shiraz-Bunder-Bushire line is to be handed over in good condition, to
the grantees, unless the Persian Government, in the meantime, should conclude a
fresh agreement with the English Government concerning that line. In the first
case the conditions of the present agreement will be equally applicable to the
Tehran-Bunder-Bushire line, with this difference only that a telegraph wire is to be
placed at the disposal of the Government each day for ten hours for the Persian
correspondence. The Persian Government will have its own servants for this
service regarding the details of which it will come to an understanding with the
grantees.
In case the Tehran-Bunder-Bushire line is handed over to the grantees the latter
promise to pay the Persian Government for each Indo-European despatch of twenty
words the sum of two francs.
For half messages this payment will also be reduced to one-half. For messages
which contain more than twenty words half a franc extra will be paid for every
additional five words over and above the twenty. If, on the contrary, the Persian
Government concludes with England another agreement for the said line, the
grantees have the right to a third (one-third) of the charge fixed for messages between
Joolfa and Bunder-Bushire, which, however, is never to exceed ten francs and a
half. The Persian Government engages to transmit, on the Tehran Bunder-
Bushire line, half messages of less than ten words for half the price for a message of
twenty words. For their own messages concerning the administration of the line
the grantees will have nothing to pay. If during the term of the agreement any
special competition whatsoever or any other unforeseen circumstances should
happen, which might necessitate a considerable reduction from the maximum of
the general tariff, the Persian Government, after having assured itself of the in
dispensable necessity of this measure, will give its assent to an agreement more
favourable to the grantees.
Article 10.
The Persian Government will have a right to adopt measure of control with the
object of ensuring the exact performance of the present agreement, but which must,
nevertheless, neither hinder nor retard the transmission of messages. In like
manner the Persian Government will have the right of inspecting the registers and
proceedings of the grantees through a functionary specially appointed for the pur
pose previously notified by the Government.
Article 11.
He Persian Government will have the right, whilst paying the price established
by the Persian tariff, to transmit official messages by the line of the grantees.
The grantees promise to place on their standards, between Joolfa and Tehran, the
new Government wire, and to replace it during the whole term of the present
agreement. To indemnify the grantees the Persian Government will repay to them
the expenses for putting up the above-mentioned line only. The iron standards
(their purchase, fixing, and replacing) will be at.the expense of the grantees.