File 80/1913 Pt 2 'Persia: Telegraphs' [‎209v] (423/818)

iii We been come toon the expiration of the Concession lor lengthening its term, the
shall have been co pay the Concessionnaires an indemnity for such new conductors
G r r r e " t a S 1 b o y n tSf Such valuation to be made by a commission on behalf of the
subject to \ aluatio - appointed attorney on behalf of the Concessionnaires. It is
Government, CoS^ shall not have it in their power to put up any
previously obtained the consent of the Government of
Persia.
15 The Concessionnaires shall be entitled, at anytime to transfer the rights by them
acquired in virtue of the present Concession, together with t lie obligations which they hereby
V 111 Comnanv of which the statutes shall be sanctioned by the Government. The
Concessionnaires shall, hiwever, be bound to participate in 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 oO.
16 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“ francs ” = 22 “krans
One shilling = 1 franc 20 centimes = 1 kran and 2 chains.
One penny =: 10 centimes 2 chahis.
0^0 u rouble ” — 4: francs == 3 krans and 10 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 f (1 „ • r • ,
Copy conformable with the original, deposited in the archives of the Russian Imperial
Legation at Teheran. j Zinoview,
Charge d’Affaires for Russia at the
Persian Court.
XX.
English Translation of the Persian Concession of the 24th 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 ot
100 francs, stipulated in Article VIII 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 Ifebo, all the rights
that that Treaty gives them on the receipts accruing from international messages transmute
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 o± t e
Concession of the 11th February 1868, all the rights which would have accrued to the Persian
Government, and that the renewal of the Anglo-Persian Convention would have still gnen
them on the two-thirds of the receipts accruing from international messages transmitted ovei
the line between Djulfa and Bushire, the third part already belonging to the grantees, as
it is stipulated in Article IX of the Concession of the 11th January 1868. _ , .
The Concessionnaires will themselves collect the above-mentioned receipts and to tnat
effect will arrange with the English Government. f n™
In return, the Concessionnaires will pay to the Persian Government during jears r
the 1st February 1870 to the 1st January 1895, at their option either a duty of 2 francs or
each transit message which passes over the Djulfa-Bushire line, excepting service messages
or 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 me iv
cases, whether the Teheran-Bushire line be made over to them, or whether it remains un e
the existing administrative conditions, the Concessionnaires then enjoying the revenue on y
which may accrue to the Persian Government and to themselves. ^ ..
Moreover, the grantees are prepared at the request of the Persian Government to pay a
the debts which that Government has contracted up to the present with tne Eng is