File 3939/1926 Pt 5 'Revision of Aitchison's Treaties: Persia, Seistan, Kerman and Persian Baluchistan' [‎120r] (233/558)

ttiegraph&SOS. XXXXII-1905 AND XXXIV-1^7. 393
• it is agreed that two European engineers with the necessary employes
Construction, i ^ temporarily placed by the Department for the purpose
and labourers ^ pergian Q ove rnment, and that the telegraph ship belonging
at the disposa o season permits, lay the two submarine
^ h ; e ^r„iam 1 Bunder Abbas respectively, and after completing the
work they shall return.
„ . as the line is complete and the cost of materials and charges of the
2 ' AS 8 nd telegraph ship have been paid, the line shall be handed over to the
engineers a ^ Te w rap h s . The Persian Government shall also have a tele-
^rffifTbuilt at Henjam at their own cost, and appoint Persian telegraphists.
ThTbunder Abbas line shall be connected with the Persian telegraph office at
Liam and all messages for abroad which are received from Bunder Abbas, and
!hich are to be communicated by the English telegraph office at Henjam shall
be received by the Persian telegraph office and immediately transmitted to the
English telegraph office.
3 The charges to be made by the Indo-European Department for the services
of the Engineers and telegraph ship shall not exceed Rs. 75,000, and the payment
of the above sum is guaranteed by the Persian Government.
4. The declaration of the Persian Government that it will not employ foreign*
ie non-Persian, subjects in the working of the line shall not be held to preclude
it from employing at the usual charges such subjects in the service of the Indo-
European Telegraph Department for any repairs to the submarine cables or other
works which may be necessary in connection with the maintenance and upkeep
of the line nor from allowing at the Bunder Abbas office a British signaller to deal
with State messages sent on behalf of the British Government to and from its
Consulate at Bunder Abbas, should the British Government desire it.
Done in duplicate at Tehran on the 13th day of May in the year 1905 equivalent
to the 8 th day of Rebbi-ul-Avvel in the year 1323 A. H.
’ Arthur H. Hardinge.
Mushir-ed-Dowleh.
No. XXXIV.
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Agreement between Russia and Great Britain by which the rights of the
British Government over the Teheran-Khanikin Telegraph line are ceded
to the Russian Government —1907.
Aide-memoire.
Le Government Imperial accepte en principe la cession a la Russie des droits
dont le Gouvernement Britannique dispose sur la ligne telegraphique Teheran
Ehanikin, ainsi que cela est projete dans I’aide-memoire de 1 Ambassade Britan