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6. The Concessionaires are exempted by the Persian G overment from the
payment of customs duty on the importation of materials for the establish
ment and maintenance of this line and of its offices, and they are freed from
all local duties. The customs authorities shall, however, have the right of
inspecting
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the consignments belonging to the Concessionaires
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7. The Concessionaires shall have the right of constructing their line in
the direction sanctioned by the Government across towns and villages along
roads, without being bound to pay any indemnity for the land occupied by
the line. In those places where the lines shall traverse private or common
property, the Concessionaires shall enjoy the right of forced appropriation
conformably to the laws in force and to the extent that the Government shall
judge indispensable.
8. The duration of the Concession is fixed at 25 years, to reckon from the
day when the working of the Shiraz-Bunder Abbas line shall have commenced.
After the expiration of this period the privilege shall cease ; and the Con
cessionaires should come to an understanding with the Persian Government
on the subject of the continuation of their possession of this line.
In the case of no arrangement having been concluded on this subject, all
the line constructed by virtue of this Concession, as well as the buildings of
the stations, shall be given up to the Persian Government without any
indemnity.
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9. The duration of the Shiraz-Bunder Abbas Concession expiring after the
1st January 1895, the precision and rapidity of the international traffic, which
depends on the uniformity of administration, might be threatened if the
Government should take back, at this date, the Djoulfa-Teheran and Teheran-
Bushire lines while the Shiraz-Bunder Abbas still remained for some time in
the hands of the Concessionaires.
The Persian Government wishing to avoid this inconvenience and being-
unwilling to take back the Shiraz-Bunder Abbas line before the expiration of
this Concession, so as not to be obliged to compensate the Concessionaires for
the expenses of construction for which they would no longer have any income,
it consents to this that the Concession for the Djoulfa-Teheran line and the
arrangement on the subject of the Teheran-Bunder-Bushire line be prolonged
to the date of the expiration of the Shiraz-Bunder Abbas line.
10. In return, the Concessionaires shall pay to the Persian Government,
for the working of this Concession from the date of the opening of the line for
international traffic, during the first half of the 25 years 1,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. annually,
and during the second half 2,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. annually.
If the Djoulfa-Teheran Concession and the arrangement on the subject of
the Teheran-Bushire line are prolonged beyond the 1st January 1895, they
shall pay, from that date to the expiration of the Shiraz-Bunder Abbas
Concession, an annual fine of 15,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. , instead of the 12,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
fixed by Article I. of the present arrangement.
11. If, during the duration of the Concession, the Concessionaires put up
extra wires to increase the means of communication, the Persian Government
binds itself to pay the Concessionaires, when the line is given up, an indem
nity for these extra wires based on an estimate made by a Commissioner of
the Government and an Attorney of the Concessionaires.
12. It shall be lawful at all times for the Concessionaires to transfer the
rights granted to them by the present Concession, with the obligations
assumed by them, to another Company whose statutes shall have been
sanctioned by the Government. It is agreed that the number of foreign
employes along the whole Shiraz-Bunder Abbas line shall not exceed 50 in
number.