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File 3632/1912 ‘Telegraphs – Wireless in Persia’ [227v] (459/640)
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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186
Second,
The said Company, is authorised forthwith to carryout the following : to
make the necessary survey for the position of the submarine cable, to place
it with all its accessories and dependencies, such as stations, wires or instru
ments, &c., &c., within the dominion and jurisdiction of the Republic, and
to adopt the plan of operations upon which the Company may decide. With ^
this object it may employ such .engineers, agents, workmen, ships, and any
means of transport as are usually employed for the purpose.
Third,
The Government of the Republic grants to the Company, free of charge,
such lands belonging to the nation as the Company may require for the
establishment, at the terminus of the cable where it is landed in Guatemala,
of stations, offices, magazines, and depots after the respective plans have been
approved.
It also grants to the Company the use of the waters of the ocean within
the jurisdiction of the Republic which may be required for the establishment
of the cable. With regard to the lands and waters belonging to private
individuals, which may prove indispensable for the completion of the work,
the Company undertakes to have them expropriated in accordance with the
laws of the Republic.
Fourth.
The Company is at liberty to appoint its employes, engineers, and
mechanics; and the management and working of the undertaking shall
belong to the Company at all times.
Fifth.
The employes and workmen of the said Company, of whatever nationality,
without excluding citizens of the Republic of Guatemala, shall be exempt
from military service and from any other public obligation, whilst in the
service of the Company.
Sixth.
During the term of 20 years, reckoned from the date of the signature of
the present contract, the Government of the Republic of Guatemala shall
cause its telegraph offices to hand exclusively to the Company, in so far as
the offices of the Company are capable of transmitting them, all telegrams
originating within the jurisdiction of the said Republic of Guatemala and
destined to foreign countries; and on no account shall it permit other
telegraphic or cable lines within its own jurisdiction to transmit telegrams
to foreign countries or to receive them from foreign countries. But this
provision shall not apply to telegrams sent from Guatemala to the republics
of Costa-Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Salvador, or to those received in
Guatemala from the said Republics.
Seventh.
On its part, the Company by these presents undertakes to hand over at the
point of junction with the telegraphic lines of the Government, all messages
received over its cable for any point of the Republic.
The maximum tariff which the Government of Guatemala may charge in
respect of the said telegrams for each word transmitted over its lines for
localities in the interior of the Republic, or vice versa, shall not exceed five
centavos of the money current in the country.
Eighth.
The maximum tariff which the Company may charge for each word
transmitted over its cable, shall not exceed fifty centavos, American gold,
between the terminus of the cable in Guatemala and any point of the United
States of America, including the charges for all the intermediate telegraphic
lines. Subject to the foregoing conditions, the Company shall be left entirely
free to fix the charges and prescribe the regulations.
Ninth.
All messages relating to the service and management of the Company shall
be transmitted free over the lines of the Government. Similarly, all official
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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