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private Companies whose lines link
more
of the contracting states
and the reply which your Lordships
have caused to be addressed thereto.
In connection with this
application, I think it right to direct
the attention of your Lordships to
the provisions
of
Article 81
of
the
annexed
to
Service Regulations
The International Telegraph Convention
of the 12 July 1875, from which
it will be seen that accession to
obligatory clauses
of
the
Convention should be imposed upon
them together to the extent that they may be bound by their articles of Concession to submit themselves in this respect
to the obligations prescribed
by the state which
granted
the
concession.
Although therefore the
Eastern Extension, Australasia, and
China Telegraph Company does
already adhere to the Convention,
it seems
a question whether
the Concession proposed to be
granted
to the Company for landing a
Cable