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annah of the feller fhall be indorfed by the collector or head officer in charge of fuch gunge, and delivered over to the purchafer, who fhall transport the goods through the dominions of the Nawab Vizier, without further moleftation; if fuch purchaser, however, fhould afterwards difpofe of the faid goods for confumption in any market or gunge in his Excellency's territories, they shall be fubject to the established duties of the fame. In like manner, goods exported from the dominions of his Excellency to the dominions of the company, after having paid the import duty in the latter, according to the rates, and in the mode prefcribed in the foregoing articles; if fold in any gunge or market, fhall be fubject to the local gunge or market duties, under the preceding limitations.

The gunge duties to be thus levied, are not to exceed the ancient established rates, to which no addition shall be made without the mutual confent of the contracting parties.

XI. If any renter, zemindar, collector of the revenues, jaghiredar, or holder of rent-free lands, fhall levy any duties or exactions on goods paffing through the dominions of the contracting parties, and on which the regular duties fhall have been paid, and rowannahs taken out as prescribed in the foregoing articles, for the first offence, he fhall be fined twenty rupees for every rupee fo exacted; for the fecond offence, forty rupees; and for the third offence, if a renter or collector of the revenues, he fhall be fined one hundred rupees for every rupee fo exacted, and be difmiffed from his farm or employment; if a zemindar, jaghiredar, or rent-free landholder, he fhall forfeit his lands. Any officer of the customs exacting more than he is authorized, shall for the first offence, be fined ten times the amount fo exacted, and be difmiffed from his employment. The party injured fhall be indemnified out of the fines for the fum fo exacted, and it fhall be left to the difcretion of the contracting Powers to grant fuch further portion of the faid fines, as they may deem adequate

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adequate to the trouble and loss of the party fo injured.

XII. In order to difcourage every attempt to evade the payment of the import duties, merchants endeavouring to pass the station at which they are to pay the fame, without having previously taken out a rowannah, fhall be fubject to double duties; and the contracting parties agree to ifiue orders in their respective territories, requiring all perfons to pay the duties, and take out rowannahs for their goods, as directed in the foregoing articles, before they approach an authorized ftation.

This article not to extend to the local duties in the markets or gunges, which are to be collected in the mede and under the limitations prescribed in the tenth article upon the goods entering the fame.

XIII. The contracting parties referve to themselves the right of levying whatever duties they may think proper, on all goods produced and confumed within their refpective dominions, and alfo on their own exports, and on all imports from other countries not under the dominion of the company or the Nawab Vizier, the article of Decan, &c. cotton, going to the company's dominions, excepted, on which his Excellency is to levy the duties as fpecified in the feventh article.

XIV. If any difpute fhall arife between the merchants of the respective states, it fhall be decided by the laws of that ftate in which the defendant may refide; if the defendant be a refident in the company's dominions, the plaintiff shall be allowed the privilege of ftating his cafe, through the vakeel or agent of the Vizier, to the right honourable the Governor General in council, who may refer it for decifion to the provincial court of justice within the jurifdiction of which the cause of action may have arisen, or the defendant may refide; in like manner, if the defendant be a refident in the Vizier's dominions, the plaintiff fhall be entitled

entitled to represent his cafe, through the English minister, to his Excellency the Vizier, who may refer it for decifion to fuch of his officers as he may think proper. It is further agreed, that fhould the collectors of the customs, zemindars, or other fubjects of either state, act in any respect, towards the merchants and traders, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this treaty, the party injured fhall be entitled to feek redress in the mode above prefcribed.

XV. This treaty not to extend to the province of Rehilchund or Kuttair, in which his Excellency referves to himself the right of collecting the duties according to the ancient eítablished rates, or of encreafing or diminishing the fame as he may deem expedient.

XVI, His Excellency the Vizier having obtained the consent of the Nawab of Furruckabad, to include his territories in this treaty; and agreed to make him a compenfation for any loffes he may fuftain in his revenues, in confequence of having relinquifhed his claim to the collection of feparate duties on the Decan, &c. cotton paffing through his territories to the dominions of the company, and on the exports from the company's dominions; the territories of the faid Nawab are included accordingly, and, as far as concerns the operation of this treaty, are to be confidered in every respect upon the fame footing as a province of the dominions of his Excellency the Vizier.

XVII. This treaty to be in force from the firft of September next, correfponding with the twenty-ninth of Zehige, one thousand two hundred and two Higeree, or fooner, if it can be ratified and exchanged before that period.

Ratified at Fort William, 25th July, 1788.

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HE treaty between the Nabob Salabat Jung, and Colonel Ford, with reregard to Mazulipatam, and the exclufion of the French from the Decan.

E. Ind. Treat. p. 3.

A treaty of perpetual honour, favour, alliance, and attachment, between the Nabob Aufuph Jau, Nizam ul Mulk, Nizam Ally Cawn, and the Eaft India company.

E. Ind. Treat. p. 29.

A treaty of perpetual friendship and alliance, between the Eaft India company, in conjunction with the Nabob of Arcot, on the one part, and the Nizam Ally Cawn, Soubah, on the other.

E. Ind. Treat. p. 38.

[The following is printed from the treaty, which was published by authority in 1784.]

A Treaty of perpetual Friendship and Alliance, made and concluded at Fort St. George, between the Honourable United Company of Merchants of England, trading to the Eaft Indies, in Conjunction with the Nabob Wolau Jau, Omdetul Mulck, Ummeer ul Hind, Serajah Dowla, Anneverdeen, Cawn Behauder, Monfoor Jung, Sippa Sardar, of the Carnatic Payen Gaut, on the one Part, and the Great Nabcb, high in Station, Aufuph Jau, Nizam ul Mulck, Meer Nizam, Ally Cawn Behauder, Phutta Jung, Sippa Sardar, Soubah of the Decan, on the other Part; by the Honourable Charles Bourchier

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Bourchier, Efq; Prefident and Governor of Fort St. George, and the Council thereof, on Behalf of the faid English Eaft India Company, the Nabob Wolau Jau, Omdetul Mulck, on Behalf of himfelf, as Nabob of the Carnatic, and the Nabob Ruccun, ud Dowlah Dewan, invefied with full Powers, on Behalf of the faid Nabob Aufuph Jau, Nizam ul Mulck, bis Heirs and Succeffors, as Soubab of the Decan. Done on the 23d Day of February, in the Year 1768 of the Chriftian Era, and on the 4th of the Moon Shevaul, in the Year of the Hegyra 1181.

The Treaty.

WHEREAS on the 12th of November, in the year of the Chriftian æra 1766, or on the ninth of the moon Gemace-duffuny, in the year of the Hegyra 1180, a treaty was concluded at Hydrabad, by and between general John Caillaud, invefted with full powers, on behalf of the English Eaft India company, and the Nabob Aufuph Jau, Nizam ul Mulck, &c. on behalf of himself, as foubah of the Decan, with a defign to establish an honourable and lafting friendship and alliance between the two contracting Powers; and whereas fome mifunderstandings have fince arifen, which have perverted the intent of the faid treaty, and kindled up the flames of war: now be it known to the whole world, that the before-mentioned Nabob Aufuph Jau, and the English company, with the Nabob. Wolau Jau, have entered into another treaty, of the ftricteft friendship and alliance, on the following conditions.

I. THE exalted and Illuftrious Emperor of Indoftan, Shaw Allum Padtcha, having out of his gracious favour, and in confideration of the attachment and fervices of the English Eaft India company, given and granted to them, for ever, by way of iniam, or freegift, the five circars of Muftephanagur, Rajahmundry, Siccacole,

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