THE court of directors of the Eaft India company, having taken into their ferious confideration the great advantages which may be attained by improving the bleffings of peace now happily re-established on the coaft of Coromandel, in the Carnatic, and the country of Tanjour, and confidering the prefent hour beft fuited for fettling and arranging, by a juft and equitable treaty, a plan for the future defence and protection of the Carnatic, the Tanjour country, and the northern circars, on a folid and lafting foundation, have communicated these their fentiments to his Excellency the Rajah of Tanjour, who, being fully impreffed with the propriety and wisdom of fuch an arrangement, has for himself, his heirs and fucceffors, adjusted and concluded a folid and permanent treaty with the honourable East India company, upon the principles and conditions hereinafter mentioned: in confequence whereof, it is ftipulated and agreed, that due provifion fhall be made for the military peace establishment; and alfo, that for difcharging the expence of war, in the event of war breaking out in the Tanjour country, or in the Carnatic, or any part of the coaft of Coromandel, certain contributions, or proportions of the revenues of the contracting parties, fhall be united into one common stock, to be applied for their mutual fecurity and defence. And, as it is neceffary that the application of the faid contributions, both for peace and war, fhould be reposed in the united company, or their reprefentatives, together with the direction of the war, the command of the army, magazines of ftores and provifions, with full power to occupy or difmantle fuch forts as by them fhall be deemed neceffary for the ge. neral fecurity; the faid contracting parties do hereby folemnly engage and agree, for themfelves and their fucceffors, to and with each other, in manner following; that is to fay,

I. The friends and enemies of his Excellency the Rajah of Tanjour, and of the English united East India

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India company, fhall be confidered as the friends and enemies of both.

II. His Excellency the Rajah of Tanjour will contribute towards the military peace establishment, and fhall pay into the treafury of the faid united company the annual fum of four lacks of ftar pagodas, to commence 12th July, in the year of Chrift 1787, correfponding to the 30th aunee of the Malabar month, of Palavunga year, and to the Phufly 1197, divided into kifts payable at the following periods:

III. The annual contribution of four lacks of pagodas, to be paid by his Excellency the Rajah of Tanjour, towards the army peace establishment, is proportioned to the grofs revenues of his country, eftimated at 10 lacks of pagodas; and it is hereby ftipulated and agreed, that whenever the annual grofs revenues of the country fhall rife above ten lacks of pagodas, the annual contribution of his Excellency, in time of peace, fhall likewife be encreased according to the fame scale or ftandard.

IV. In case of failure in the punctual payment of the four lacks of pagodas already mentioned, to the extent of fifty thoufand pagodas, for the period of one month after the fame fhall become due, his Excellency the Rajah agrees, that the company fhall have power to enter upon any of the diftricts in the Tanjour country, that shall appear to them neceffary to difcharge the amount of the fum in arrear; and that the com

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pany shall have power to appoint fuperintendants or receivers to collect and receive from the Rajah's renters, managers, aumildars, all the rents, revenues, duties, and cuftoms of the faid diftricts; and thefe fuperintendants or receivers fhall exercise all neceffary authority for collecting fuch rents, revenues, duties, and customs of the faid diftricts, giving regular receipts for all the monies which may be received by the faid fuperintendants; who shall have full power to infpect and examine all Cutcherry receipts and accounts of the lands and districts aforefaid, as well as to afcertain the ftate of all other revenues, which fhall be collected annually within the faid diftricts; and when the full amount of the arrears due fhali have been paid to the company, the fuperintendant or receiver fhall be immediately recalled.

V. At the appointment of the fuperintendant or reçeiver, his Excellency the Rajah will furnish the company with the obligations of the aumildars, renters, or farmers of each diftrict; and if they do not pay the money punctually to the fuperintendants or receivers, agreeable thereto, his Excellency the Rajah, at the requeft of the governor in council of Fort St. George, fhall and will immediately difmifs the faid aumildars, renters, or farmers, and appoint fuch others in their ftead as the prefident in council of Fort St. George fhall recommend, after taking from them the ufual obligations, which shall be delivered to the company by his Excellency.

VI. That the exercise of power over the said diftricts and farms, by virtue of the conditions mentioned in the 4th and 5th articles, in cafe of failure in the payment of any of the kifts, fhall not extend or be conftrued to extend to deprive his Excellency the Rajah of Tanjour, or his fucceffors, of the civil government thereof, or the honour and dignity of his family; but the fame fhall be preferved to him and them inviolate,

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violate, faving and excepting the powers in the articles N° 4 and 5 expreffed and mentioned.

VII. That in the event of any war breaking out in the Carnatic, in Tanjour, or on the coaft of Coromandel, the said united company fhall charge themfelves with the direction, order, and conduct thereof; and, during the continuance of fuch war, fhall apply four-fifths of their whole revenue, in the Carnatic and the northern circar, annually, to the military expences of the war.

VIII. That in the like event, his Excellency the Rajah of Tanjour fhall pay into the treasury of the faid united company four-fifths of his revenues, to the general expences of fuch war, to be applied in fuch manner as the faid united company or their reprefentatives fhall find neceffary for their common fafety and interefts, as alfo for the interefts of their allies in the Carnatic, and on the coaft of Coromandel. And it is moreover agreed, that his Excellency's proportion of the debt and expences incurred by war, fhall henceforth be fettled at one fifth part of the whole amount thereof.

IX. For the more effectual fecurity of the payment of four-fifths of the revenue of his Excellency, annually, to the military expences of the war; and to remove every doubt on the part of the company, of any fecretion or diverfion of the faid revenues from the purpose aforefaid, the prefident in council of Fort St. George, in behalf of the company, fhall have full power and authority, during fuch war, to appoint one or more infpectors or accountants, to infpect and examine all country and Cutcherry accounts and receipts, of all the countries and diftricts of his Excellency, as well as all other revenues, duties, or customs, collected by or for the ufe of his Excellency. And in cafe the faid four-fifths of the revenues, or any part thereof, are diverted from the discharge of the current expences

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of the war, or the debts and expences incurred thereby, the faid united compány fhall have full power to appoint fuperintendants and receivers over the faid countries and diftricts of the Rajah, in the manner specified in the 4th article of this treaty, with the fame authority, and under the like reftrictions and conditions therein expreffed, in cafe of failure.

X. That the faid annual four-fifths, payable from the revenues of his Excellency the Rajah of Tanjore, fhall, after the termination of the war, continue to be applied to the discharge of all debts and expences that may be incurred or arife during the courfe of the war, until his proportion of one-fifth part of the whole expence is paid off and discharged.

XI. It is expressly underítood and declared, that fo foon as the expences incurred by the war are paid off and discharged, the fuperintendants and receivers fhall be immediately recalled.

XII. That during the application of the faid proportion of four-fifths of the faid grofs revenues to the discharge of the debts and expences incurred in time of war, the 2d, 3d, 4th, and 5th articles of this treaty fhall be and remain dormant, and be of no effect; but fhall re-commence, and regain their full force and validity, from and immediately after all the debts and expences of fuch war have been fully and proportionally paid off and discharged.

XIII. In cafe his Excellency fhall at any time have occafion for any number of troops for the fecurity and collection of his revenues, the fupport of his authority, or the good order and government of his country, the faid united company fhall and will furnifh a fufficient number of troops, on a public reprefentation being made by his Excellency, to the prefident in council of Fort St. George, of the neceffity of employing fuch force, and the objects to be obtained thereby. In case of the march of fuch troops, the additional batta and Kk 4 expences