THE PERSIAN AIR MAIL

5 July 1925 Bill (No. 1610) submitted to Parliament. Translation: hereas the establishment of Aerial postal services in Persia would immensely facilitate communications and traffic with other countries and in the interior of Persia and would surely lead to the increase and prosperity of trade, and having regard to the fact that such a rapid means of communication can be utilised on many occasions by various Departments for the discharge of their urgent work, the following clauses are being submitted to Parliament for early consideration and sanction. CLAUSE 1 s the German Company, Junkers, represented by Monsieur Edmond Jarolimek, an Austrian subject, undertakes to perform one weekly flight by aeroplane from Teheran to each of the towns Pahlavi, (Enzeli), Bushire and Quraitu and one weekly flight from these towns to Teheran, the monopoly of aviation on the above-mentioned routes is hereby granted to that company for a period of five years beginning from the date of enactment of this law. CLAUSE 2 rom the date of establishment of the aerial service for a period of eighteen months, the Imperial Government will pay to Junkers a subsidy of three Krans for each kilometre flown in accordance with the terms of Clause 1. CLAUSE 3 t the end of the eighteen months mentioned in Clause 2 of this Bill, the Imperial Government will have the right to stop payment of the allowance mentioned in the same clause. CLAUSE 4 he Junkers Company agrees to convey a weekly postal despatch with a weight of not less than seventy five kilograms to and from each of the towns mentioned in Clause 1. CLAUSE 5 uring the period of the concession, which is five years, the whole revenue accruing from the surtax collected by the Government from the aerial posts will be paid to the Junkers Company after the deduction therefrom of the expenditure of the Department. But when this revenue exceeds the sum of Tomans four thousand, the surplus will not be paid to the Company. When the revenue in question is less than Tomans four thousand, the Company may not demand the balance. In view of the Treasury law concerning the centralisation of revenues, a credit of Tomans thirty two thousand is hereby sanctioned to be paid to the Company out of the revenue accruing from the surtax of the air mail. CLAUSE 6 arliament hereby decrees that out of the savings of the credits already passed and sanctioned for the year 1304, a credit of Tomans seventy two thousand should remain at the disposal of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs in order that it may pay to the Junkers Company the amounts mentioned in clauses 2 and 3. No payments are allowed to be made out of the above-mentioned credits before the amounts in question are duly secured therefrom. CLAUSE 7 he aeroplanes will land in such towns situated on the lines of flight as the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs may designate. CLAUSE 8 he charges and the conditions of passenger and freight traffic will be fixed with the approval of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs. W A F A T D P T T

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