File 3939/1926 Pt 5 'Revision of Aitchison's Treaties: Persia, Seistan, Kerman and Persian Baluchistan' [‎112r] (217/558)

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PEftStA— Telegraphs—NO. XXVIII—1865.
177
And the aforesaid distinguished representatives, after
capital of Tehran, and periling and exchanging their letters
and finding them to be in due order, have concluded
Articles:—
Article 1.
In order to improve the telegraphic communication between Europe and India>
the Persian Government agrees to attach another wire to the poles now standing
from Bushire to Khannikeen, and to bring it into working order as soon as possible.
The wire to be used solely for international messages sent in European languages.
Article 2.
In order that the second wire may be attached in a complete and effective
manner, the Persian Government also agrees that it shall be done under the direc
tion and supervision of an English Engineer Officer and staff; and the Persian
Government will use its best endeavours to collect the necessary materials and
lay down the wire with all expedition.
Article 3.
The British Government agrees to procure for the Persian Government at a
reasonable price, and with the cognizance of a Persian Commissioner all the wire
insulators, Morse instruments, etc., that may be requisite for this work inclu*
sive of two hundred iron posts for the marshy tracts of Bushire, and to deliver
them over to the Government Commissioners at any seaports or frontier towns
of Persia that may be suitable, receiving payment in five years in five install
ments.
meeting in the i „
of full power,
the following,/
Article 4.
The Persian Government, moreover, agrees that an English Telegraph Officer
with the necessary staff not exceeding (50) fifty in number, exclusive of families,
shall be engaged, from the opening of telegraphic communication through the
new wire, for (5) five years in organizing the Persian line of telegraph and giving
instructions in telegraphy. And the British Government agrees that the English
cer an( ^ staff shall, at the expiration of the prescribed period, make over
e said line to the Persian Government and cease connection with Persian Tele
graph.
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Article 5.
the ^ 6 COnc ^ ons un der which the English Officer shall exercise control over
® second wire during the prescribed period are stated in the following rules :~
other ^ highness the Itizad-es-Sultaneh, Minister of Science, or any
con^d ^ 8011 W ^ 0 ’ ^ Shah’s order, may be appointed in his place, is to J ;3
ered the head and absolute chief of all the Persian Government Telegraphs.