'A collection of Conventions and Agreements relating to Telegraphs in Turkey in Asia, Persia, the Persian Gulf, and Mekran' [‎33v] (26/36)

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and the Malek-i-Tajjar. It is agreed that the Telegraph officials and their true, positive and
salaried servants be exempted from Customs dues.
It is agreed that stores for provisions and the necessaries of existence which are brought
from the interior for the Telegraph Establishment, such as rice, ghee, wood, dec., and such like
be exempHrom taxatmn.^v ^ dependents 0 f Jask, other than the true, positive and
salaried servants of the Telegraph Establishment, in order to take sanctuary or protection
penetrate within the limits, the Telegraph officials shall have no right to protect them ; on the
contrary they should place them without their boundary and hand them over to the Government
° f ^Any merchant, native or foreign, who may have shops within the limits must pay the
1 A 1 ’ 1,/a Inaranrts: in nrflpr to tmdp 1)11 V OV Spll
Any mercnani, nauve ui ^ *•*
usual Customs dues on that which he imports in order to trade, buy 01 sell.
^ ' - Sd.) 1
That which His Excellency the Ameen-es-Sultan, Minister of Finance and of the Palace,
has written is correct and is registered in the horeign (Mlice of the I ersian Cioveriinient.
This 2nd Jamadi II. 1304.
Seal of the Ministry
for Foreign Affairs.
Note— This boundary was afterwards modified at Colonel Smith’s suggestion. Instead of
the new fence being erected at a distance of 400 yards and parallel to the old fence right
across the point, a line was to be drawn from the West Bay, 150 yards from the old fence, and
continued parallel to it to within 100 feet of Telegraph line, thence parallel to Telegraph line
till it met new boundary 400 yards from old fence.
(Sd.) B. T. Ffinch,
Director, Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Section,
14th June 1888. Indian Government Telegraph Department.
XXIV.
Convention between the United Kingdom and Persia extending the System of
Telegraphic Communication between Europe and India through Persia.
Signed at Tehran, 16th August 1901.
[Ratifications exchanged at Tehran, I30i January 1902.]
[Signed also in Persian text.]
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Emperor of
India, and His Majesty the King of all the Kingdoms of Persia, being desirous to extend the
system of telegraphic communication between Europe and India through Persia, already
esta ihshed in virtue of previous I reaties, have resolved that a Convention for that purpose
shall be concluded ; wherefore their Majesties have named as their Plenipotentiaries:
r r 1 S q- a rV °1 the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Emperor of
India, feir Arthur Henry Hardinge, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of
fet. Michael and St. George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, his Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Persia ;
And His Majesty the King of all the Kingdoms of Persia, His Excellency Mirza Nasrullah
wW q S lr 'f 'hlowleh, his Minister lor Foreign Affairs, Bearer of the Order of the Lion
ana the Sun of the first class with green riband, Possessor of the Order of the Koval Portrait
\r. 1S + m ^ ro? d ; dm Sh al\ Possessor of the Order of the Portrait of’His Present
r f'th S wv, Cr i e< ' < 1 I i 1 Shah, of the first (’lass, and of the Blue Cordon, Bearer of the Order
Firc^n i” G t t ^ e ’ ‘? d d . t ie ^ irst ohass of the Osmanieh adorned with Diamonds, and of the
thp C)i er f°Q + t . 0 P () 1 ’'h Austria), and of the First Order of Leopold (of Belgium), and of
the Order of St. Alexander adorned with Diamonds, &c., &c., &c. ;
bmirhlnd ore ° a . 1 distinguished Kepresentatives, after meeting at Tajrisch in the neigh-
fniinr] in rr i ° c M’ lta Ieliran and perusing and exchanging their full powers, which were
found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles:-
Article I.
anreeil^hnt^n^h'ru SGCUril i^ u 11 interrupted communication between Europe and India, it is
cable thenrp tn r r 1 . 10n t0 "J 10 pi'esent line of telegraph from Tehran to Bushire and submarine
teWranh Gvill v, ia ’ a read > established in virtue of previous Treaties, a three-wire line of
frontier nid Vp 7 1° c< ] n A tnicte( i hy the Persian Government from Kashan to the Baluchistan
irontier, urn \ezd and Kerman, traversing wherever possible inhabited districts.