Economic and financial section > Convention between the Hellenic government and the Refugee settlement commission

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operations connected with that cadastre. The Hellenic Government, for its part, undertakes to
complete that cadastre, to retain the personnel which the Commission has engaged for that purpose
(subject to satisfactory service), to pay that personnel on a scale not lower than that which the
Commission has adopted, to continue the system which the Commission has elaborated for the
preparation of that cadastre, and to carry out the subsidiary operations necessary to give to each
refugee established by the Commission a provisional title to the land allotted to him.
As regards (ii) above, the Refugee Settlement Commission undertakes to leave sufficient funds
to cover any unpaid balance due under the contract for the construction of the Drama-Ossenitza
road, and it hopes though without incurring any legal liability as regards this matter—to be
in a position to leave sufficient funds to cover any unpaid balance due under the contract for the
construction of the Zirnovo-Borovo road.
The Refugee Settlement Commission anticipates that all minor obligations will be covered
by the funds which it will place at the disposal of the Hellenic Government.
4. The Hellenic Government has taken over from the Refugee Settlement Commission
the agricultural, veterinary and allied services of which details were given in a letter addressed
by the Commission to the Hellenic Government and dated April 19th, 1929. The services
transferred are the agricultural services proper and all personnel employed by the Commission
for the stallion, cattle, pig and poultry breeding-stations, the nurseries, model farms, and
experimental or demonstration plots.
The Hellenic Government has also taken over the dispensaries which belonged to the Refugee
Settlement Commission in Macedonia and Thrace, and such minor medical services as the
Commission was maintaining in Euboea and Achaia-Elis.
The Hellenic Government agrees also to take over the services and the equipment required
in connection with sanitation, water-supply, the emptying of cesspools, the upkeep and repair
of roads and bridges, and generally all services of a municipal character in the Commission’s
urban quarters.
It is understood that the Hellenic Government may make such arrangements as may seem
to it desirable in order to provide for municipal services in the Refugee Settlement Commission’s
urban quarters, whether by imposing the duty of providing those services upon existing municipal
authorities, or by creating new municipal bodies to which these services will be entrusted,
or otherwise.
The Refugee Settlement Commission, for its part, agrees to cede to the Hellenic Government,
free of charge and free of any mortgage rights under Article 8 of this Agreement, all land in the
Commission’s urban settlements used for public roads, all bridges constructed in the urban
settlements by the Commission, all drains, water-pumping machinery, pipes for the supply of water,
cesspools, public squares, water-supply stations, reservoirs, camions used for the removal of sewage’
incinerators, and generally all equipment used for the purpose of public utility services in these
settlements. The land appurtenant to all such installations will also be ceded, free of charge, and
free of all mortgage rights.
Maps of all urban areas either exist, or are under preparation; and the Refugee Settlement
Commission undertakes to supply copies of such maps to the Hellenic Government as they are
completed.
All schools, hospitals and dispensary buildings in the urban quarters constructed by the
Refugee Settlement Commission, the land appurtenant thereto, the equipment of such buildings,
and the stocks of medicines and instruments belonging to the Refugee Settlement Commission
will also be handed over to the Hellenic Government, free of charge, and free of all mortgage
rights except in cases where such buildings and lands have already been made over to
the municipalities or the communes, or any other organisation or authority.
5. The Hellenic Government undertakes to place at the disposal of the Refugee Settlement
Commission, gratuitously, from the date on which the Hellenic Government takes over such
services, all agricultural, veterinary, irrigation, and other officials, whose services may be required
by the Commission for the continuation or completion of the work of establishing the refugees
during the interval prior to December 31st, 1930.
By agreement between the Refugee Settlement Commission and the Hellenic Government,
such other personnel as the Refugee Settlement Commission may have, and which they may no
longer require, and which the Hellenic Government may desire to employ, shall from time to time
be transferred to the Hellenic Government prior to December 31st, 1930. The Commission
anticipates that, on December 31st, 1930, the only services which will remain will be: the cadastral
service (as to which see Article 3 above), an accounting service, which will be transferred to the
Hellenic Government on the above date, a service for the collection of debts, which will
be transferred either prior to or on the above date to the National Bank of Greece or the Bank of
Greece and to the Agricultural Bank, possibly a small technical service in charge of construction
works not wholly completed, and a limited administrative service at the headquarters at Athens
Salonika and Comotini.
The Hellenic Government recognises that it will be necessary to retain any technical services
which may exist on December 31st, 1930, until such time as the works for which their services
are required are completed; and to retain all other personnel (except the cadastral service, for
which special arrangements are made under Article 3 above) for a period of at least two months
from the above date, In all these cases the personnel will be retained, subject to satisfactory