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File 3632/1912 ‘Telegraphs – Wireless in Persia’ [268v] (541/640)
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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(13) The concession shall cease and the concessionaires shall forfeit the
right to any remuneration in the event of their not fulfilling the
conditions of the present concession. The concession shall also
cease if the cable remain inactive on the expiration of the term
specified in Article 4 for the repair of damage.
(14) On the expiration of the term of 30 years, specified in Article 12, the
Russian Government shall offer the Company terms for the renewal
of the concession, and, in the event of the same being declined by
the Company, the said Government reserves to itself the right of
issuing at option to other persons another concession for the
establishment of telegraphic communication between the Russian
coast on the Gulf of Bothnia and Sweden.
(15) If the Russian Government shall eventually recognise the necessity
for the establishment of a submarine communication between any
point on the coast of the provinces of Esthonia, Livonia or
Courland and Sweden, it shall offer the Company conditions for
the establishment of such a telegraphic communication, and, in
the event of the Company declining these conditions, the Govern
ment reserves to itself the right of issuing a concession to whom it
may please for the establishment of such a telegraph line.
(16) In all cases when doubt shall arise as to the exact purport of the
present concession, the Company shall abide by the final decision
of the Committee of Ministers.
(17) The Company or Association shall be organised either in accordance
with Russian law, in which case the statutes must be submitted to
the Government for confirmation, or, in accordance with foreign
law; in any case, the Company must conform with the laws of
Russia in all legal matters and in its obligations to the Government
and to private persons ; and there must be an
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
in Russia to
represent the Company during the whole term of the concession.
(18) The Company has the right to transfer the present concession with
all the privileges and obligations embodied in the same to another
company, but not otherwise than with the preliminary consent of
the Russian and Swedish Governments.
The original was signed by
Christian Ludwig Madsen,
Royal Danish Grand Commissary,
the representative of the State Councillor,
K. F. Titgen, and
The merchant,
G. G. Ericsen.
Timasheff,
Adj utant-General.
III.— Transfer of No. I. to Great Northern Telegraph Coepany, 1870.
No. 380.—10th April, 1870.
Imperial Order, submitted to the Ruling Senate by the Minister of the
Interior on the 25th April, respecting the Transfer to the Great Northern
Telegraph Company, of the privileges and functions in connection with
the Establishment and Working of the Submarine Telegraph Line between
Russia and Denmark.
The Ruling Senate, by its order of the 20th September 1868, promulgated
the concession Imperially granted on the 6th day of September of the same
year to the Danish subjects Titgen and Ericsen for the establishment and
working of a submarine telegraph line connecting the telegraph lines of Russia
and Denmark.
The concessionaires have now, in virtue of the provisions of the con
cession (Article 13), executed a deed of transfer of the privileges and functions
ceded to them under the present undertaking, in favour of the Great Northern
Telegraph Company.
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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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- 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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