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File 3632/1912 ‘Telegraphs – Wireless in Persia’ [139v] (283/640)
The record is made up of 1 volume (316 folios). It was created in 29 Mar 1912-27 Jul 1915. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: 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. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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• 10
Contract made between the Telegraph General Department, represented
by the provisional Director General, Alvaro de Mellq Coutinho de Vilhena,
on the authority given in the order, No. 53, of the 17th of February of this
year, from the Ministry of Industry, Railways and Public Works, and
between the Compagnie Fran^aise des Cables Telegraphiques, represented
by its delegate in Brazil, Barao de Capanema, for the leasing of a tele
graphic wire, the property of the United States of Brazil, from Pinheiro
to Belem, to the Company in question, which shall be designated the
Contracting Company in this contract, under the following clauses.
I.
The Brazilian Government binds itself to place at the disposal of the
Contracting Company one of the telegraph wires which connect the stations
of Pinheiro and Belem, and which shall be maintained by the Telegraph
Department at the cost of the said Contracting Company.
II.
The amount which the Contracting Company shall contribute for the
maintenance of the leased wire shall be 1,800 milreis (corresponding to the
salary of a lineman* of the 1 st class) paid b}^ half-yearly advances. Subse
quently the service of maintenance may be made by the Contracting
Company, the clauses relative to this point only being altered.
III.
This contribution shall be paid independently of the working or not of the
Contracting Company’s cable.
IV.
In contracting to cede one conducting wire, the precise one of the two
existing conducting wires is not specified. In the case of the failure of the
one conducting wire, the other which remains in good condition shall be
used ; and, in the case of the two wires coming into contact with one another
so as to disturb the service, one of the terminals of the conducting wires
shall be disconnected in the Government station at Pinheiro so as to
guarantee an efficient service.
V.
The Brazilian Government accepts no responsibility towards the Con
tracting Company as regards temporary defects which may affect the
conducting wires.
VI.
The leased wire shall be used only for the external service with the
exception, however, of the service messages of the Contracting Company
between Pinheiro and Belem.
VII.
The international service affecting the leased wire shall be carried out in
accordance with Clause 11 of the Decree No. 21Ga of the 22nd of February
1890, which concedes to the Contracting Company authority for the commu
nications between the State of Para and the United States of North America,
that is, the guaranteeing by Government to the Contracting Company of the
exclusive right to transmit, under the stipulation of the international regu
lations, telegrams handed in at the telegraphic stations of the United States of
Brazil and addressed to the United States of North America and to Central
America or coming from those countries.
VIII.
The special telegraphic service over this wire in the conditions laid down
in the foregoing clause shall be carried on, both at Belem and Pinheiro, by
employees of the Contracting Company.
IX.
There shall be granted at the official station in Belem, the necessary
accommodation for the installation of the apparatus and records of the
Contracting Company, for which there shall be contributed a third of the
annual rent paid by the Department.
* Guarda.
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The volume contains correspondence and notes by British government officials about the Italian Government’s support for proposals by the British company Marconi, initially in association with the German company Telefunken, to establish a network of wireless (radio) telegraph stations in Persia. The main correspondents are ministers and senior officials at the Foreign Office and the 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. in London, the Director-in-Chief of the Indo-European Telegraph Department headquarters in London, the Viceroy and Governor-General of India at Calcutta, the British Minister to Persia at Tehran (also spelt Teheran) and the British Ambassador to Russia at Petrograd [Saint Petersburg]. The correspondents discuss the harm that would be caused to the British monopoly on telegraphic installations and communications between India, Southern Persia (referred to as the British zone) and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , in the event that the Marconi Company was successful in obtaining a concession (licence) from the Persian Government, with the concurrence of the Russian Government. Included in the volume is a copy of the Marconi proposals, written in French and presented by the Italian Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran to the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1914. At the end of the volume is a copy of the General Post Office publication ‘Cable communication: further print of Concessions Granted in Foreign Countries accompanying memorandum of 13th October 1899, comparing General Forms of License for landing cables in the United Kingdom and various Licenses or Concessions for landing cables in British Possessions or Foreign Countries’, printed in October 1905.
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- 1 volume (316 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 3632 (Telegraphs – Wireless in Persia) consists of one volume.
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The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 318; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- IOR/L/PS/10/298
- Title
- File 3632/1912 ‘Telegraphs – Wireless in Persia’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:68v, 70r:80v, 86v:317v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence