File 3632/1912 ‘Telegraphs – Wireless in Persia’ [‎247v] (499/640)

telegraphs in Netherlands India with the service of the instruments on the
lines of the undertaker.
4. The undertaker’s staff who do duty in the Government telegraph offices
are bound to submit themselves to and conduct themselves according to all
determinations of order and control which hold good there for the staff of the
Government telegraphs.
Article 5.
1. The undertaker binds himself to the continual maintenance in good
condition of all the parts of the telegraphic connections referred to in this
Concession.
2. In each Government telegraph office into which the lines of the
undertaker are brought a sufficiently competent technical official must be
placed by him. This official sees to the maintenance in good condition of
the instruments and batteries on the lines of the undertaker, for which
purpose a suitable storage-space shall be afforded in or near the telegraph
office for carrying out small repairs and for storing appliances and minor
material necessary for that maintenance and for the supervision over the
condition of the undertaker’s lines.
3. Access to the lines and offices of the undertaker is at all times assured
to the officials charged with the supervision by the director of the department
of general administration in Netherlands India, under whose control the
affairs of the Government telegraphs belong.
4. Defects in the parts of the telegraphic connection the maintenance of
which remains with the undertaker are repaired by him as speedily as possible
but always within one year of the occurrence of the defect, even if the
disturbance is a result of force majeure.
5. In case of fault or neglect of the undertaker, or of the staff in his
service, the removal of the faults must take place within three months.
6. If the undertaker is prevented in the repair of the faults referred to in
the two foregoing paragraphs by war vessels of a belligerent Power the
periods determined by these clauses can be extended by the Governor-
General of Netherlands India.
Article 6.
1. The Governor-General of Netherlands India is competent, after the
lapse of the period determined for one of the cases named in the 4th and
5th paragraphs of Article 5, to cause the repair of the faults without the
intervention of the undertaker, but at his cost.
2. The Government is not responsible for damage done to the lines or
instruments of the undertaker, even in case that damage is the result of war
or riot.
Article 7.
The undertaker’s staff who do duty in Netherlands India must consist of
residents of Netherlands India, and they are subject to all laws and other
general ordinances which have in Netherlands India the force of law, the
ordinance touching telegraphy not excepted.
Article 8.
1. The rates which the undertaker charges on telegrams which are sent
from and to Netherlands India over one or more of his cables shall not be
raised above the rates holding good on 1st January 1905, without the
approval of the Minister for the Colonies.
2. Whenever the undertaker reduces the rates which are charged on his
cables on 1st January 1905, for through traffic, or for traffic transiting
Netherlands India, he is bound to also proportionately reduce the rates
for telegrams which are sent from and to Netherlands India over the cables
on which that reduction is applied; except when the reduction is the
consequence of tariff-conflict or of the obtaining of subsidies or other
compensations, and it exclusively benefits those by whom the subsidy or the
compensation is granted.