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Enclosures. Tender for Long-Distance Wireless-Telegraph Stations. I. We, the Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, hereinafter called " the company," hereby offer to erect wireless-telegraph stations capable of communicating over a range of at least two thousand geographical miles in—(1) England, (2) Cyprus, (3) Aden, (4) South Africa, (5) India ; and all such other places as may subsequently be required and agreed upon. We understand that it is desired that the station at Aden should be able to communicate with a station in the Union of South Africa ; but should this prove impracticable or undesirable, we offer to erect a station at Nairobi, either in place of or in addition to the station at Aden, as may be desired. 11. The stations shall be erected in accordance with specifications to be prepared by us and to be approved by the Postmaster-General of the United Kingdom, hereinafter called " the PostmasterGeneral," on behalf of the Government of the United Kingdom and of the Governments of all the dominions and colonies concerned, and in accordance with the , annexed conditions. 111. A formal agreement, hereinafter called " the said agreement," shall be prepared in draft to embody the above undertakings and the annexed conditions, which agreement shall provide that all and any other long-distance stations which the Government of the United Kingdom and the Governments of all the dominions and colonies represented herein by the Postmaster-General may require shall be constructed by the company upon the same terms as those herein specified, together with any further conditions which may be found necessary or desirable, and after the approval of this draft by the Postmaster-General and the company the said agreement shall be prepared in accordance with it, and shall be executed by the Postmaster-General and the company. Conditions. 1. The company shall provide complete wireless apparatus for duplex working and fast-speed automatic working, masts, earth connections, and duplicate power plant at each station for the sum of £60,000 per station. 2. The company shall also, if required, construct buildings, make foundations for masts and machinery, and carry out other necessary works at cost-price. 3. The company shall demonstrate that the stations are capable of continuous communication for commercial purposes both by day and by night over the required distance at a speed of twenty words a minute duplex with ordinary working, or fifty simplex with automatic working, after allowing for repetitions in either case. 4. The company shall work the stations for a period of six months at cost-price to the Post-master-General, and shall remedy without charge any defects which may manifest themselves during that period. 5. If successful working has been established at the end of the period of six months, the company shall hand the stations over to be worked by the Governments concerned. 6. The said agreement shall extend for a period of twenty-eight years from the date of the completion of the first five stations, determinable at the end of eighteen years from the date of such completion by six months' notice by the Postmaster-General, and during its continuance the Postmaster-General shall pay to the company by way of royalty 10 per cent, of the gross receipts of the stations above mentioned, and of any other stations hereafter erected under the provisions of the said agreement. 7. The company and Mr. Marconi will during the continuance of the said agreement give to the Postmaster-General all their assistance and advice for the successful working of the stations. 8. The company and Mr. Marconi will during the continuance of the said agreement give to the Postmaster-General the right to use at the station erected under the provisions of the said agreement all inventions, improvements, and patents to which they or he are or may become entitled, and of which they or he are or may become possessed, and over which they or he have control and power to use, and which may be used by them or him, and all improvements in such inventions and patents, without any payment beyond those specified in the said agreement. 9. The Postmaster-General shall have the right to introduce into the stations at his absolute discretion any patents or inventions in wireless telegraphy in addition to or in substitution for those of the company. The Postmaster-General shall, however, seek the advice of the company before actually introducing such patents and inventions. 10. If at any time during the term of the said agreement the Postmaster-General shall find it advantageous to use a system entirely independent of the Marconi system, and should no longer use any of the apparatus of the company in regard to which a patent is in force for the purpose Of working the stations, the payment of royalty to the company shall cease. 11. If notice is not given to determine the said agreement before the end of twenty-eight years the Postmaster-General shall have the continued use in all stations then working under the said agreement of all or any of the inventions and patents referred to in condition 8 which may actually be in use at the stations at the termination of the said agreement, or may have been in use at them, and this without further payment by way of royalty. 12. The company shall release the Admiralty and the Postmaster-General from the obligation under their agreements with the company of 24th July, 1903, and 29th September, 1909, respectively not to impart any information about Marconi apparatus or the mode of working it to other Departments of the Imperial, dominion, or colonial Governments, and the Governments and Departments concerned shall not make use of information so obtained in order to enable them to manufacture or cause to be manufactured, or use without payment, any of the apparatus in regard to which information has been furnished. Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company (Limited), Godfrey C. Isaacs, Managing Director. 13th February, 1912.