1765.

The agreement with the Nabob Nudjum

30 Sept. ul Dowlah, for fupporting the Nizamut.

1768.

E. Ind. Treat. p. 149.

The treaty with the Nabob Vizier Sujah

29 Nov. ul Dowlah, confirming former treaties. E. Ind. Treat. p. 164.

1770. 21 Mar.

17737 Sept.

1775. 21 May.

1781. 19 Sept.

1788.

The treaty with the Nabob Mebareck ul Dowlah.

E. Ind. Treat. p. 167.

The treaty with the Vizier Sujah ul Dowlah. E. Ind. Treat. p. 275.

The agreement with the Nabob Ausuf ul Dowlah.

E. Ind. Treat. p. 284–85.

The agreements entered into between the governor general of Bengal (Warren Haftings) and the Vizier.

E. Ind. Treat. p. 303-305.

The treaty of commerce between the Earl 25 July. Cornwallis, the governor general of Bengal, and the Vizier.

[The following is printed from the Treaty, which was published by authority, at Calcutta, in 1788.]

A Treaty of Commerce between Charles Earl Cornwallis, Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter, one of his Britannic Majefty's most Honourable Privy Council, Lieutenant General of his Majefty's Forces, Governor General and Commander in Chief of all the Poffeffions and Forces of his Britannic Majefty, and of the Honourable the United Company of Merchants of England, in the Eaft Indies, &c. &c. &c. on

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the Part of the faid Honourable United Company, and bis Excellency the Vizier ul Momalik Hindoftan, Affuf Jah Nawab, Affuf ud Dowlah Yeheha Khan Behadur, Huzzubber Jung.

THE right honourable Charles Earl Cornwallis, K. G. governor general, &c. &c. and his Excellency the Nawab Vizier, Behadur, &c. &c. having received various representations from the merchants trading between the Company's dominions, and the dominions of his Excellency the Vizier, fetting forth the loffes and inconveniences which they fuffer, as well from the heavy duties collected on their merchandize, as from the mode of levying the fame, his lordship, on the part of the honourable the united company of merchants of England trading to the Eaft Indies, and his Excellency the Nawab Vizier, &c. with a view to remove the evils complained of, and to promote the welfare of their respective states, have agreed upon the following articles, which fhall be binding on themselves, their heirs, and fucceffors.

I. The contracting parties fhall not claim any exemption from duties, either for themselves, their fubjects, or dependants, or any other perfon or perfons, of whatever country or nation.

II. His Excellency the Nawab Vizier, &c. agrees to grant rowannahs, or custom-house paffes, under the feals and fignatures of his officers, for all goods exported from his dominions to the dominions of the company, fpecifying the quantity of the goods and the valuation on which his own export duties fhall have been levied. The right honourable Earl Cornwallis, in like manner, engages that fimilar rowannahs, or custom-1 houfe paffes, fhall be granted for all goods exported from the company's dominions (comprehending the provinces of Bengal, Behar, Oriffa, and the diftri&t of Benares) to the dominions of his Excellency the Vizier, specifying the quantity of the goods, and the vaVOL. II.

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luation on which the duties fhall have been levied in the dominions of the company.

III. His Excellency the Vizier, &c. agrees to levy the duties on all goods imported into his territories from the company's dominions, upon the valuation fpecified in the company's rowannah. The right honourable Earl Cornwallis, &c. agrees to levy the duties on all goods imported from his Excellency's dominions into the district of Benares, or the company's provinces, on the valuation fpecified in the rowannah of his Excellency the Nawab Vizier.

IV. Goods exported from the company's dominions to the dominions of his Excellency the Vizier, if by the river Ganges, fhall pay the duties at Lutchagyr, or at Foolpore; if by the river Goomty, at Ghura Mobarikpore; if by the river Gogra, at Doohry Gaut; if by land, at Keeway, Maidnee Gunge, Chaundahpertaubpore, Mow, or Mahraj Gunge; and if by the way of Sircar Gooruckpore, at the gaut of the river Gunduck, or at Gooruckpore, Mujholee, or Chollooparah. The merchant or perfon in charge of the goods, upon paying the duties hereinafter mentioned, at either of the above ftations, fhall receive a rowannah from the collector of the duties, under his public feal, which fhall exempt the goods from all further demands or moleftation whatever, in their progrefs through the dominions of his Excellency.

The duties on goods exported from the dominions of his Excellency the Vizier, to the dominions of the company, whether by land or water, fhall be levied at the established stations in the district of Benares, and the province of Behar, and rowannahs granted as above fpecified.

The contracting parties referve to themfelves the power of changing the fituation of the ftations for levying the duties as they may deem expedient, upon giving public notification to each other of the new ftation fixed upon.

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V. Broad cloth, iron, copper, lead, manufactures of iron, copper, lead, gold or filver, raw filk, filk piece goods, cotton piece goods, and piece goods made partly of filk and partly of cotton, exported from the dominions of the company to the dominions of the Vizier, fhall pay an import duty of two and a half per cent. to his Excellency, on the price fpecified in the rowannah taken out in the company's dominions.

VI. Salt exported from the company's dominions to the dominions of the Nawab Vizier, fhall pay an import duty of five per cent. to his Excellency, on the valuation specified in the rowannah granted at any of the stations in the company's dominions.

VII. Cotton coming from Jahlone, Hydernuggur, Omraowty, Naugpore, or any of the countries of the Decan, and paffing through the dominions of the Nawab Vizier to the dominions of the company, fhall pay a duty of five per cent. to his Excellency, on the fixed valuation of fix rupees per maund of ninety-fix ficca weight to the feer, rowannahs for covering the fame through his Excellency's dominions, fhall be granted at the station where the duties are levied. The fame cotton, when it arrives in the province of Benares, fhall pay a duty of two and a half per cent. and two and a half per cent. more on entering the foubah of Behar, upon the valuation above specified; or, fhould it not pafs through the jurifdiction of Benares, it fhall pay five per cent. upon being imported into the company's provinces.

VIII. Silk piece goods, cotton piece goods, and piece goods made partly of filk and partly of cotton, exported from the dominions of the Nawab Vizier to the company's dominions, fhall pay a duty of no more than two and a half per cent. on the price fpecified in his Excellency's rowannah. The faid duty fhall be collected at the established stations in Benares, fhould the goods pass through that district; and upon their arrival in the company's provinces, the collectors of Hh 2

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the customs shall grant a rowannah duty free to cover fuch goods to any part of Bengal, Behar, or Oriffa. Should the faid goods enter the company's provinces, without paffing through the diftrict of Benares, the above duty of two and a half per cent. fhall be levied at the first station in the company's provinces.

IX. All goods not specified in the foregoing articles, exported from the refpective dominions of the contracting parties, fhall be fubject to a duty of five per cent. on the valuation inferted in the rowannah of the country from whence they were originally exported. If the goods fhall have been exported from the company's dominions to the dominions of the Nawab Vizier, his Excellency will collect the duty aforefaid, at one of the stations mentioned in the third article; if from the territories of his Excellency to the dominions of the company, two and a half per cent. fhall be levied at the first established ftation in the diftrict of Benares, and two and a half per cent. at the first authorized ftation in the province of Behar; or, fhould the said goods enter the company's provinces without paffing through the jurifdiction of Benares, the whole duty of five per cent. fhall be collected at the first authorized ftation in the province of Behar.

X. Goods exported from the provinces of Bengal, Behar, or Oriffa, or from the district of Benares, to the dominions of the Nawab Vizier, after having paid the import duties to his Excellency, according to the rates, and in the mode prescribed in the foregoing articles, if fold in the dominions of the Nawab Vizier, fhall be fubject to the established local duties of the market or gunge in which they are difpofed of. Provided, nevertheless, that if the faid goods fhall be fold for the purpose of being exported beyond the confines of his Excellency's dominions, and not for the confumption of the fame, no local gunge or market duty, or any other duty whatfoever, fhall be levied on account of fuch fale or purchase; but the import row

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