‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎152] (475/578)

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PERSIA— Telegraphs —APPENDIX NO. XXXII—1869.
PERSIA'
APPENDIX No. XXXII.—[See page 26.]
Copy of Treaty concluded by Mr. George Siemens with the Persian Govern
ment on behalf of the Indo-Ettropean Telegraph Company,— 24th May
1869.
The conclusions accepted by the Vienna Conference having altered the basis
of the concession of 11th January 1868, granted to Messrs. Siemens and Halske
and Siemens Brothers, by compelling the said grantees to fix a tariff which is
below the minimum of 100 francs, stipulated in the 8th Article of the said con
cession, the Persian Government and the grantees have agreed upon the following
Articles :—
The Persian Government concedes to the grantees from the 1st January 1870
to the expiration of the Treaty of 23rd November 1865* all the rights which it
possesses under this Treaty in tlm receipts accruing from the international messages
sent by the Tehran-Bushire line
After the expiration of this Treaty the Tehran-Bushire line shall be made over
Should the treaty be renewed, the Persian Government concedes to the grantees
up to the 1st January 1895, the date of the expiration of the concession of 11th
January 1868, all the rights which would revert to the Persian Government, and
thirds of the receipts accruing from the international messages sent by the line
grantees, as .-tipulated in the 9th Article of the concession of 11th January 1868.
The grantees shall themselves collect the above-mentioned receipts, and shall
arrange with the British Government to this effect.
In return the grantees shall pay to the Persian Government during the 25
years, commencing from 1st February 1870 to the 1st January 1895, either a duty
of two francs for each message of transit passing through the Joolfa-Bushire line,
whichever it may prefer. They shall pay this duty or the fixed subsidy in both
cases, whether the Tehran-Bushire line be made over to them, or whether it remains
under its present management, the grantees only enjoying the revenues which
revert to the Persian Government and to themselves.
Moreover, the grantees are willing, should the Persian Government desire it,
to pay all the debts which this Government has contracted up to the present time
with the British Government for the purchase of telegraphic materials, as well as
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to the grantees, unless the Persian Government should make at the time a new
convention with the British Government concerning this line on the same financial
basis.
which the renewal of the Anglo-Persian Convention would still give it, over two-
between Joolfa and Bushire, the remaining one-third already belonging to the
with the exception of service messages, or an annual subsidy of 12,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. ,
* No. XXVIII (page 179).