PUBLIC RECORD
OFFICE
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C.O.885
17 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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11. The Extension Company shall, within three months from the expiration of the year 1901, and within a like period from the expiration of each subsequent calendar year, send to the Government of each of the contracting Colonies an account showing the receipts of the Extension Company and the Cia-Indian Administrations from Australasian traffic during such year, after deducting out-payments charged by other Governments and Administrations, and such account shall, when required by the contracting Colonies or any of them, be verified by the production in London of the account books of the Extension Company kept in respect of or relating in any way whatever to the Australasian traffic and when so required by a Statutory Declaration made by the Manager, Secretary, Traffic Accountant, or other duly authorised officer of the Extension Company.
12. The Extension Company shall with all convenient speed after the necessary landing rights have been obtained procure to be manufactured and laid between Durban in the Colony of Natal, and Australia a submarine telegraph cable (herein called "the New Cable ") in the five sections following that is to say:-(1) Durban to Mauritius (2) Mauritius to Rodrigues (3) Rodrigues to Cocos (4) Cocos to Fremantle in Western Australia and (5) Fremantle to Glenelg in South Australia. The Extension Company shall also lay or procure to be laid in connection with the New Cable two subterranean land lines one from Fremantle to Perth in Western Australia and the other from Glenelg to Adelaide in South Australia. The Extension Company shall also establish and supply or procure to be established and supplied all stations, offices, and apparatus necessary for the proper working of the New Cable and the said subterranean land lines.
13. The contracting Colonies shall have the right to use the Cable from Glenelg to Fremantle at the rate of fivepence per word such right only to arise in the event of the land lines not being in working order it being understood that precedence shall always be given to international traffic. The cable between Fremantle and Glenelg shall not, as long as the land lines between the Colonies of Western Australia and South Australia shall be in working order, be used to transmit intercolonial telegrams not forming part of the international traffic.
14. The Government of New South Wales shall, so soon as the next following clause comes into force, provide and maintain in efficient working order at its own expense for the trans- mission of the Australasian traffic a special wire on the Government posts between Sydney and the South Australian frontier. The said special wire shall be connected with the offices of the Extension Company in Sydney and shall always be at the service of and be worked by the staff of the Extension Company. The charges therefor to be paid by the Extension Company to New South Wales shall be the terminal rates mentioned in the said Schedule and shall be reduced under that Schedule as occasion shall arise on reduction by the Extension Company of their Cable charges.
15. The Extension Company shall, on and after the opening for traffic of the Pacific Cable, or any other competing Cable, be entitled to open local offices and to collect direct from and to deliver direct to the public in the cities of Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, and Sydney, any telegrams forming part of the Australasian traffic, and shall pay to the contracting Colonies the terminal rates specified in the Schedule in respect of all such messages so collected or delivered, provided that formal notice of not less than six months shall be given to the Extension Company to enable them to prepare for opening their offices simultaneously with the competing Cable.
16. The Australasian traffic shall be transmitted via the new cable or via Port Darwin as the exigencies of the traffic of the Extension Company may require, but traffic received via Port Darwin for transmission to places beyond Adelaide shall be handed to the Extension Company at Adelaide for such transmission so soon as the Company have their own offices and apecial wires as provided for in Articles 14 and 15 hereof.
17. Upon the opening of the New Cable for traffic the net charges of the Extension Com- pany and the Eastern Company after deduction of out-payments for telegrams between the contracting Colonies and Durban or Cape Town shall not exceed two shillings.
18. Each of the Governments of the respective contracting Colonies shall cause all cables, cable apparatus, telegraph instruments, machinery, stationery, and goods of any kind of the Extension Company or their assigns which are used solely for the purpose of the Cable business of the Extension Company or for their assigns or for laying, repairing, or working any of their cables, land lines or cable ships to be relieved from all custom duties and wharfage rates in its own respectivé Colony and shall cause every vessel which shall be used by the Extension Company or their assigns for the purpose of laying, repairing or duplicating any cable or any vessel belonging to or chartered by the Extension Company or their assigns in which any such cable apparatus and telegraph instruments, machinery, stationery, and goods as aforesaid shall be carried to be exempt from all port and light dues whether upon entering any port or passing through any waters of any such Colony or otherwise howsoever and shall also repay to the Extension Company such sums as will be sufficient to recoup the Extension Company any income tax and any rates or taxes Parliamentary or otherwise which the Extension Com- pany shall be required to pay in such respective contracting Colony except rates and taxes on premises nerupied as local offices for the purpose referred to in Clause 15 hereof.
19. Nothing in this Agreement contained shall prevent the Extension Company at any time after they shall have commenced working the New Cable from closing their station at Roebuck Bay and taking up the cable which lands at that place, subject to consultation with the Government of Western Australia.
20. This Agreement shall remain in force until rescinded by mutual consent expressed in writing.
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21. The contracting Colonies or any of them may at any time after Clause 15 is in opera- tion and so often as they or it pleases appoint a confidential officer to peruse and inspect all telegrams received at the offices of the Extension Company in such Colonies, and all messager handed to the Extension Company in such Colonies at its offices for transmission.
In witness whereof The Honourable Henry Copeland, on behalf of the Government of New South Wales, has hereunto set his hand and seal, and the Common Seal of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company Limited, hath been hereunto affixed the day and year first above written.
HENRY COPELAND (L.S.)
Signed sealed and delivered by the above-named Honourable Henry Copeland on behalf of the
Government of New South Wales in the presence of
S. YARDLEY
Secretary
Department of Agent-General for New South Wales Westminster S.W.
The Common Seal of The Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company Limited was hereunto affixed in the presence of
J. DENISON-PENDER
F. E. HESSE
Director.
Manager and Secretary.
The Common Seul of the Eastern Extension
Austral-¿' naia and China Telegraph.Co..
Limited.
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SCHEDULE.
TARIFF per Word and Apportionment of Australasian Terminal Charges for Traffic exchanged between Australasia and Europe on and after 1st January, 1901, and to come into operation upon further reductions of Rates taking place under the provisions of Article 5.
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TABLE B.
GOVERNMENT. British Imperial and Colonial.
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