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File 3531/1905 Pt 1 ‘Mesopotamia:- Euphrates + Tigris S. N. Co.; Mail contract’ [‎326v] (22/148)

The record is made up of 1 item (72 folios). It was created in 1904-1905. It was written in English. 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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Moneys forfeited
may be deducted
from moneys
payable.
Notices and
directions under
this Contract, how
to be delivered.
but a proportionate deduction shall be made from the subsidy herem-after
mentioned for the trip or trips not performed, and all the conditions and
oenalties of this Contract shall attach in respect or such seryices as jbe
Company continue to perform so far as the same may be applicable thereto;-''
16 That every sum of money stipulated to be forfeited by the Company
shall be considered as liquidated or ascertained damages, and may be deducted
out of any moneys then payable or which may thereafter become payable to
the Company, or the payment thereof may be enforced with full cost of suit,
and no payment on account of this Contract shall be deemed a waiver of the
riirht to recover any antecedent sum or sums which may be due from the
Company.
17 That all notices and directions which the Secreuary of State, or the
Government of India, or the said Government Officer, or any other officer,
are by these presents authorised and empowered to give to the Company,
their officers, servants, or agents, may as respects places other than London,
at the option of the said authorities, be eitner delivered to the master ot any
of the said vessels or other officer or agent of the said Company in the charge
or management of any vessel employed m the performance of this Contract,
or may be left for the Company at their last known office or place of business
in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. , and that as respects London all such notices shall be so
left for the Company at their last known office or place of business in
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Subsidy.
18 And this Indenture further witnesseth that in consideration of the
premises and of‘the due and faithful performance by the said Company of all
the said several services hereby contracted to be performed by them, the
Secretary of State doth hereby covenant that there shall be paid to the
Company, their successors and assigns, so long as they perform the said
several services in the manner and with such vessels as herein provided,
a subsidy at and after the rate of rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. twenty-four thousand per annum,
i such subsidy to be payable hSIf-yearly in manner following, viz,, upon
I production to the Accountant-General or other authorised officer at the India
Office, as soon as may be after the thirtieth day of June and the thirty-first
| ^ay of December in each year, of a certificate from the saffi Government
Officer certifying the due carriage and delivery of the said mails and
I performance in all respects of this Contract during the six months preceding
such thirtieth day of June and thirty-first day of December respectively, or
for any broken period, a bill in rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. for the amount due on such days
respectively shall be issued to the Company in London drawn upon Calcutta
^ or Bombay, as the Company may from time to time prefer.
Contract not to be
assigned : power
to determine it on
breach by tbe
Company.
19. That without the consent of the Secretary of State signified in writing
this Contract shall not nor shall any part thereof be assigned, underlet, or
disposed of; and in case of the same or any part thereof being assigned,
underlet, or otherwise disposed of without the consent signified as aforesaid,
or of any great or habitual breach of this Contract on the part of the Company,
their officers, agents, or servants, and whether there he or be not any penalty
or sum of money payable by the Company for any such breach, it shall be
lawful for the Secretary of State, if he shall think fit, by writing under the
hand of one of the Under Secretaries of State for India, or of the Assistant
Under Secretary of State for India, to determine this Contract forthwith
without any previous notice to the Company or their agents, and the Company
shall not be entitled to any compensation in respect of such determination.
If, when Contract
terminates, any
vessels have
started, voyages to
be continued as if
Contract remained
in force.
20. If on the termination of this Contract by effluxion of time or otherwise
any vessel or vessels have started or shall start with the mails in conformity
with this Contract, such voyage or voyages shall be continued or performed,
and the mails be delivered and received during the same as if this Contract
had remained in force with regard to such vessel or vessels, voyage or voyages;
and with respect to any such vessels and voyages last aforesaid, this Agree
ment shall he considered as having terminated when such vessels and voyages
shall have reached their place of destination and been performed, and subsidy

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Part 1 of the volume comprises correspondence relating to, as well as draft copies of (ff 325-327, ff 338-341, ff 384-386) an indenture for the renewal of the concession agreed between the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (ETSNC) and the British Government, for the conveyance of mail between Busreh [Basra] and Baghdad. The part’s principal correspondents are: the Secretary of the ETSNC (Frank Bottomley); the Legal Adviser and Solicitor to the Secretary of State for India (Sir Horatio Hale Shephard); the Assistant Under-Secretary of State to 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. (Sir Horace George Walpole).

The discussion between Government officials focuses on clauses relating to the maintenance of regular weekly communication between Basra and Baghdad by the ETSNC (clause 5), and the resultant penalties (or exemptions from penalties) incurred by delays or cancellations to the mail service (clauses 11 to 13).

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File 3531/1905 Pt 1 ‘Mesopotamia:- Euphrates + Tigris S. N. Co.; Mail contract’ [‎326v] (22/148), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/88/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100031751619.0x00003e> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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