'A collection of Conventions and Agreements relating to Telegraphs in Turkey in Asia, Persia, the Persian Gulf, and Mekran' [‎30v] (20/36)

shall have been come to on
Government
subject to
Government, togeth
the expiration of the Concession for lengthening its term, the
clearlv understocKl that the Concessionnaires shall not have it in their power to put up any
■uhlitional wires without having previously obtained the consent of the (.overnment of
additional
Persia.
M The Concessionnaires shall be entitled, at anytime, to transfer the rights by them
acauired in virtue of the present Concession, together with the obligations which they hereby
undertake to a Company, of which the statutes shall be sanctioned by the Government, The
Concessionnaires shall, however, be bound to participate m said Company to the extent of at
least one-fifth of the capital in the Company. It is hereby determined that the number of
foreign officers employed along the whole extent of the Persian line shall not exceed 50.
lb With the object of simplifying the settlement of the accounts between the Persian
Government and the Concessionnaires, the relative values of coins shall be regulated by the
following unalterable rates ; to wit t
One pound sterling = 25 ' l francs ” = -2 “ krans.”
One shilling = 1 franc 20 centimes = 1 kran and 2 chains.
One penny = 10 centimes 2 chahis.
Done at Teheran, on the eleventh of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight, corresponding to the fifteenth day of the month of Ramazan, one
thousand two hundred and eighty-four of the Mussulman period.
Copy conformable with the original, deposited in the archives of the Russian Imperial
Legation at Teheran.
J. Zi NOVIEW,
Charge d'Affaires for Russia at the
Persian Court.
XX.
English Translation of the Persian Concession of the 24tii May 1869.
The conclusions accepted by the Congress of Vienna having changed the basis of the
Concession of the 11th January 1868, granted to Messrs. Siemens and Halske and Siemens
Brothers, in forcing the actual Concessionnaires to fix a tariff which is under the minimum of
100 francs, stipulated in Article VJH of the said Concession, the Persian Government and the
Concessionnaires having agreed to the following articles :—
I.
The Persian Government concedes to the actual Concessionnaires for the period since the
1st January 1870 up to the expiration of the Treaty of the 23rd October 1865, all the rights
that that Treaty gives them on the receipts accruing from international messages transmitted
over the Teheran-Bushire line.
After the expiration of that Treaty the Teheran-Bushire line will be made over to the
Concessionnaires, unless the Persian Government has made, meanwhile, a new convention on
the same financial basis with the English Government concerning this line.
In case the treaty should be renewed, the Persian Government concedes to the
Concessionnaires for the period up to the 1st January 1895, the date of the expiration of the
C oncession of the 11th February 1868, all the rights which Avould have accrued to the Persian
Government, and that the renewal of the Anglo-Persian Convention would have still given
them on the two-thirds of the receipts accruing from international messages transmitted over
the line between Djulfa and Bushire, the third part alreadv belonging to the grantees, as
it is stipulated in Article IX of the Concession of the 11th January 1868.
1 he ( oncessionnaires will themselves collect the above-mentioned receipts and to that
effect will arrange with the English Government.
In return, the Concessionnaires will pay to the Persian Government during 25 years from
the 1st february 1870 to the 1st January i895, at their option either a duty of 2 francs for
each transit message which passes over the Djulfa-Bushire line, excepting service messages
oi an annual rent of 12,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. . They shall pay this duty or the fixed rent in the two
cases, whether the Teheran-Bushire line be made over to them, or whether it remains under
the existing administrative eonditions, the Concessionnaires then enjoying the revenue only
which may accrue to the Persian Government and to themselves.
Moreover, the grantees are prepared at the request of the Persian Government to pay all
tie debts which that Government has contracted up to the present with the English