File 3414/1906 Pt 4 'Persia: Arabistan telegraphs; Mohammerah-Ahwaz-Borasjun line' [‎30r] (64/382)

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Annex.
Rough Draft of the Account to be rendered to the Persian Government
in connection with the cost of the Central Persia Line.
Cost of providing materials for, and constructing, a telegraph line
from Kashan to the Indian frontier, under Articles I. and III. of the
Convention between the United Kingdom and Persia, dated 16th August
1901.
Rs.
A.
p.
£
Cash charges
- 8,97,707
12
8
(59,817)
Value of stores
- 6,47,103
9
7
(43,140)
Total
- 15,44,811
6
3
(102,987)
Cost of providing materials for, and constructing a telegraph line
from Teheran to Kashan under Articles III. and X. of the above
Convention.
Rs.
A.
p.
£
Cash charges
- 1,98,504
3
1
(13,234)
Value of stores
- 1,32,899
11
11
(8,860)
Total
- 3,31,403
15
0
(22,094)
Total cost telegraph lines from Teheran to Indian frontier,
Rs. 18,76,215. 5. 3, or 125,0811., at Rs. 15 = 11.
Rental to be paid for the use and transit revenue of the Central
Persia line at 4 per cent, on the capital cost of 125,08U., under
Article IV. of the Convention, to be 5,003 ‘ 24L per annum, of which 3 per
cent., or 3,752*43L, to be retained by the Indo-European Telegraph
Department, and the balance 1,250 81L to be paid to the Persian
Government in two half-yearly instalments.
Amount due from the Persian Government on account of advances
made under Article II. of the Convention for the salaries and allowances
of the men actually employed in the direction and supervision of the
work of constructing the Central Persia line fiom Peheran to the Indian
frontier Rs. 96,561. 4. 11 (6,438L).
H. A. Kirk.
24th August 1909.
Sir,
Enclosure No. 2.
Foreign Office to India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. .
No. 41 438. Foreign Office,
29th November 1909.
I am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 10th instant (P.W. 1574), relative to the
preparation, for presentation to the Persian Government, of the account
showing the expenditure incurred in the construction of the Central
Persia telegraph line. ^ ^ • tt-
I am to inform you in reply that Sir E. Grey concurs m Viscount
Morley’s proposal to approve the views expressed by the Director-m-
Chief of the Indo-European Telegraph Department on this subject, and
to instruct him to prepare the bill of costs accoidingly.
I am, &c.,
The Under Secretary of State Louis Malei.
for India.