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point, take possession of 600 yards more to
the north of the telegraph establishment, *.e.,
400 yards from the present boundary fence,
between which and the telegraph establishment
is a distance of 200 yards, making a total from
tho end of the promontory to the limits of
900 yards; at the end of these 900 yards a wire
boundary will be drawn, and tho Government of
Jask shall have no right whatsoever on any
account whatever to interfere in the interior of
those limits.”
The Agreement also contained the following
clauses:—
" It is agreed that if any of the defendants of
Jask, other than the true, positive, and salaried
servants of the telegraph establishment, in order
to take sanctuary or protection, penotrate within
tho limits, the telegraph officials shall have no
right to protect them; on the contrary, thoy
should place them without their boundary, and
hand them over to the Government of Jask.
“ Any merchant, nativo or foreign, who may
have shops within the limits must pay the usual
customs dues on that which be imports in order
to trade, buy, or sell.”

Chahbar. —British rights at Chahbar are pre­
sumably covered by Article II of the 1863
Convention, by which, in return for an annual
payment, the British Government obtained
“ leave to lay down the line of telegraph on these
coasts and places which are under tho sovereignty
of Persia ”
Henjam.—The telegraph station at Hcnjam
was established in 1869, on the diversion of the
cable from Cape Musandim; it was abandoned in
1881 and reoccupied in April 1904. As regards
the ownership of the island, it should be observed
that in 1868, when the question of a telegraph
station had arisen, Colonel Pelly reported that in
his opinion Henjam was a possession of Muscat;
but the Government of India of the day elected
to proceed in their negotiations for a telegraph
station on the assumption that the island belonged
to Persia. The Concession granted to the British
Government in 1868 was embodied in the fol­
lowing Minute by the Persian Minister of Foreign
Affairs, dated the 29th March, 1868:—"With
respect to permission for the cable telegraph
station on the Island of Angaum (Henjam), the
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