File 3632/1912 ‘Telegraphs – Wireless in Persia’ [‎277v] (559/640)

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Original Text.
continue to fulfil the conditions laid
down in the present concession.
Artl
On the expiration of the term of
30 years, as specified in Article 12,
the Russian Government shall offer
the* Company conditions for the
renewal of the concession, and in
case the same shall not be accepted
by the Company, it shall retain the
right of granting to others a con
cession for the establishment of
telegraph communication between
the Russian coast of the Gulf of
Bothnia and Sweden.
Count D. Tolstoi,
Minister of the Interior.
Proposed Modification of Text.
The line established by the Com
pany, shall, however, not be closed if
the Company has observed and shall
continue to fulfil the conditions laid
down in the present concession.
e 14.
On the expiration of the term
specified in Article 1 2 of the present
concession the Russian Government
shall offer the Company the same
conditions for renewal of the con
cession, and in case such conditions
shall not be accepted by the Company
it shall retain the right of granting to
others a concession for the establish
ment of telegraph communication
b'etween the Russian coast of the Gulf
of Bothnia and Sweden.
SUENSON,
Managing Director of the Great
Northern Telegraph Company.
XIII.— Extension to 1912 of Period of Concession granted under
No. L, 1882.
No. 694.
Respecting the Modification of Articles 10 and 12 of the Concession
granted by Imperial Order on the 6th day of September 1868, for the
Establishment and Working of a Submarine Telegraph Line connecting
the Telegraphs of Russia and Denmark.
The report of Adjutant-General Timasheff, late Minister of the Interior,
of the 10th September 1868, Sub-No. 233, was submitted to the Ruling
Senate, accompanied by a copy of the concession for the establishment and
working of a submarine telegraph line connecting the telegraphs of Russia
and Denmark granted by Imperial Order on the 6th September of the same
year for a period of 30 years to the State Councillor Titgen and the merchant
Ericsen.
The immersion of a cable by the Company between the Russian and
Danish coasts, rendering possible the exchange by this cable of telegraphic
messages between Russia and Denmark and the West of Europe, and the
same Company having laid down a cable from the Asiatic frontier of Russia
to Japan and China, has finally secured to Russia the independent transit
route for the transmission of telegraphic messages exchanged between France,
England and America, and the Far East.
In view of the increase of Russian telegraphic messages transmitted by
the Russo-Danish cable, the necessity of laying down supplementary cables
for opening up new routes which would secure to Russia the possibility of
exchanging her messages with foreign nations independently from any neigh
bouring country became a matter of constant consideration for the Northern
Company. Such supplementary cables have now been laid down between
Denmark and England and France in two lines.
In order to establish permanently the independent transmission of Russian
telegraphic messages with Japan and China, and to secure the transit route
for telegraphic messages exchanged between the Far East and Western
Europe and America, in the event of damage to the cable connecting Russia
with Japan and China, it was found necessary to lay down a second cable,
to which the Northern Company, possessing the cables from Vladivostok to
Japan and China, assented, and at the same time requested an extension of
the term of the concession granted it for the establishment and working of