File 1808/1912 'Bagdad Railway. Navigation of the Tigris & Lynch's Agreement with the Company for the transport of railway material.' [244v] (493/514)
The record is made up of 1 volume (253 folios). It was created in 27 Mar 1912-15 Apr 1913. 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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Chapter V. — Provisions relative to various Services.
Art. 26. In time of peace as in time of war the concessionnaires shall place at tlu^
disposal of the Imperial Government, on a written requisition from the military
authorities, all carriages and other rolling stock and means of transport, whenever
the Government may ha\e to send by rail, either singly or in bodies, officers and
men, both military and naval, police and gendarmerie, as well as zaptiehs and
volunteers, their effects and mounts, all kinds of equipment, war material, and stores ;
the Government may even, if need be, take over the administration of the line with
its rolling stock and its staff. The transport shall be effected both in time of peace
and in time of war, whether it is effected by the concessionnaii es or the Government
occupying the line, at a third of the tat iff rate, with the exception of the officers and
men, who shall be conveyed at a quarter of the tariff rate; likewise the equipment and
other articles forwarded by passenger train shall be similarly transported at a third,
the officers and men at a quarter of the tariff rate. It is agreed that, in the case of
military transports, troops shall be entitled to the free transport of 30 kilog. of luggage
per head in addition to the articles which they carry with them or in the compartment
in which they travel. Luggage of this kind may consist of the following articles :—
Guns, knapsacks, cartridge-pouches, bread-bags, cans, clothes, boots, kitchen
utensils, ambulance stores, armourers’ and farriers’ materials, horse-clothing and
bandages, surgical instruments, medicines, tents, shovels, pick-axes, axes, musical instru
ments, and rations for the men during the railway journey.
Notwithstanding, should the Imperial Government require it, the concessionnaires
shall be bound to enter into a special agreement with the Minister of War for military
transports and consignments in accordance with the rules laid down for this purpose
in other countries. 1 1
Art. 27. The Government shall further be granted a reduction to a third of the
tariff rate for the conveyance of prisoners and convicts and their warders; for this
purpose the concessionnaires shall be bound to place at their disposal, whenever they
require it, the requisite number of second or third class compartments in the ordinary
trains. J
Art. 28. The Government officials or agents whose business it is to inspect, control,
or supervise the construction and working of the railway, together with the officials
of the Administration of Telegraphs and Excise Revenue, shall travel free of charge in the
company’s carriages. The telegraphic apparatus for the State lines shall be transported
at a reduction of 20 per cent, on the tariff rates.
Art. 29. The company is bound to undertake, free of charge, the transport by
ordinary passenger train of sealed mail-bags accompanied by the necessary officials;
lor t ns purpose it will reserve in each passenger train one or more compartments in a
second class carnage—if necessary an entire carriage—according to the Government’s
requirements.
Should the Imperial Administration of Posts have a special carriage built for the
so e purpose of carrying the mails, and hand it over to the company, the latter shall
be bound to couple it to its trains and forward it free of charge.
I he concessionnaires may not accept any foreign postal service without the previous
authorisation of the Government.
Art 30. The concess:onnaires are obliged to run daily at least one mixed train
in each direction.
Besides this mixed train, the company shall run at least one through express train
a,-week uot 0611 Jiiajd&r-Pa/slici and Al6ppo a.nd vice vcvsoi.
this direct express train shall run on at least every fortnight to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
and vice versa.
1 he average speed of this train on the railway which forms the subject of the
present convention shall be not less than 45 kilom. an hour, including stops, during the
first fi\e ) eais from the opening to traffic of the whole of the main line.
. . V n ^ ie ex P\ ra ^j on those five years, the average speed of this direct train
including stops, shall be not less than GO kilom.
In addition to this, should the importance of the traffic prove the necessitv for it
tie company shall run through trains, comprising first and second class carriages the
average speed of which, between Haidar-
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
and the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, and vice versd
shall be not less than 40 kilom. an hour.
The present specification has, in accordance with the irade published by His
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The volume concerns the navigation of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, and moves by The Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (also referred to as Messrs Lynch) to negotiate an agreement with the Baghdad Railway Company for the transport of railway material up the rivers of 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. .
The principal correspondents are senior officials of the Foreign Office, 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. , and the Board of Trade; and the Secretary of The Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company.
The papers cover: contracts and agreements; Russian concern over the proposed agreement; the formation of a joint company to operate river transport on the Euphrates and Tigris; the assertion by Britain of exceptional rights to navigation on the rivers of Mesopotamia; and papers concerning the general Baghdad Railway question.
The French language content of the volume consists of contracts, agreements and conventions, with English translations.
The volume contains conventions and agreements that are earlier than the man date range, dated 1903-11.
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- 1 volume (253 folios)
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The subject 1808 (Bagdad Railway) consists of one volume only. The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 255; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-254; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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