File 3939/1926 Pt 5 'Revision of Aitchison's Treaties: Persia, Seistan, Kerman and Persian Baluchistan' [‎118r] (229/558)

PERSIA— Telegraphs —NOS. XXXI 1S8< AND XXXII 1901. 1£9
That which His Excellency the Ameen-es-Sultan, Minister of Finance and
of the Palace, has written is correct and is registered in the Foreign Office of the
Persian Government.
This 2nd Jemmadee II., 1304.
Seal of the Ministry
for Foreign Affairs.
Note— This boundary was afterwards modified at Colonel Smith’s suggestion. Instead
of the now fence being erected at a distance of 400 yards and paraUel to the old fence right aciot s
the point, a line was to be drawn from the West Bay, 150 yards from the old fence, ar.< con-
ti iued parallel to it to within 100 feet of Telegraph line, thence parallel to Telegraph line till
it met new boundary 400 yards from old fence.
B. T. FFINCH,
The 14th June 1888.
Director, Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Section,
Indian Government Telegraph Department’
No. XXXII.
Convention between Great Britain and Persia, extending the system of Tele
graphic communication between Europe and India through Persia, 1901.
[Ratifwa ions exchanged at Tehran, January 13, 1902.]
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Emperor of India, and His Majesty the King of all the Kingdoms of
Persia, being desirous to extend the system of telegraphic communication
between Europe and India through Persia already established in virtue of
previous treaties, have resolved that a Convention for that purpose shall be
concluded, wherefore Their Majesties have named as their Plenipotentiaries :
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Emperor of India —Sir Arthur Henry Hardinge, Knight Commander
of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion
of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, His Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Persia ; and His Majesty the King
of all the Kingdoms of Persia—His Excellency Mirza Nasrulla Khan
Mushir-ed-Dowleh, His Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bearer of the Order
of the Lion and the Sun of the First Class with Green Riband, Possessor of
the Order of the Royal Portrait of His Late Majesty Nasreddin Shah,
Possessor of the Order of the Royal Portrait of His Present Majesty Muzuf-
fereddin Shah of the First Class, and of the Blue Cordon, Bearer of the
Order of the White Eagle, and of the 1 st Class of the Osmania adorned with
diamonds, and of the First Order of Leopold (of Austria) and of the First
Order of Leopold (of Belgium) and of the Order of St. Alexander, adorned