Nawab of the Carnatic in the said province of Tinnevelly have been CARNATIC. attended with inconvenience to the executive government of His said No. XLIII. Highness in the said province; and whereas it is the earnest desire of the Right Honourable Edward Lord Clive, Governor of Fort St. George, &c., to comply with the wishes of His said Highness for promoting the welfare and tranquillity of his possessions in the province of Tinnevelly; it is mutually agreed between His said Highness the Nawab of the Carnatic, &c., and the said Right Honourable Edward Lord Clive, &c., that the right of collecting Desh Cavelly and Talem Cavelly, in villages now subject to the government of His said Highness, shall be entirely relinquished by the cavilcarrahs now subject to the authority of the Company, the said Lord Clive taking on himself to make compensation to the said cavilcarrahs for the losses which they will in consequence sustain.

In consideration whereof, the Nawab of the Carnatic, &c., agrees to relinquish all claims to the performance of the watching duties, and to compensation for theft or losses in the villages situated as abovementioned; and His said Highness further agrees to make full compensation to be regularly paid in ready money at the Company's treasury for the amount of the actual loss sustained by the Company by relinquishing the cavelly fees.

It is further mutually agreed that the accounts of the cavelly fees. shall, with all convenient expedition, be investigated, to the end that, after deducting the amount of the charges of collecting the said fees as well as of the losses incidental to the performance of the watching duties within the villages subject to His Highness the Nawab, the residue may be paid by His Highness to the Company, being the acknowledged and ancient right of the polygars and cavilcarrahs transferred by the Treaty of 1792 to the authority of the Company. But whereas this investigation will be attended with delay and injury to the said Nawab of the Carnatic, it is agreed that immediate orders shall be sent by the said Edward Lord Clive to the Company's collector of polygar peshcush for discontinuing the collection of cavelly fees in the villages above described to be under the authority of His said Highness, His said Highness binding himself in consequence to pay the amount which the said Lord Clive on a just consideration of the Company's revenue

CARNATIC. accounts shall determine to be a just compensation for relinquishing the Nos. XLIII. cavelly fees.

& XLIV.

Done in Fort St. George, this 26th day of August, 1800, by order of the Right Honourable the Governor in Council.

(Signed)

J. WEBBE,

Chief Secretary to Government.

No. XLIV.

TREATY with AZEEM-OOL-DOWLAH, 1801.

TREATY for settling the succession to the soubadarry of the territories of Arcot, and for vesting the administration of the civil and military government of the Carnatic Payen Ghat in the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies.

Whereas the several Treaties which have been concluded between the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, and their Highnesses heretofore Nawabs of the Carnatic, have been intended to cement and identify the interests of the contracting parties; and whereas, in conformity to the spirit of the alliance, the said Company did, by the Treaty concluded on the 12th July, 1792, with the late Nawab Wolau Jah, relinquish extensive pecuniary advantages, acquired by the previous Treaty of 1787, with the view and on the consideration of establishing a more adequate security for the interests of the British Government in the Carnatic; and whereas subsequent experience has proved that the intention of the contracting parties has not been fulfilled by the provisions of any of the Treaties heretofore concluded between them; and whereas the musnud of the soubadarry of Arcot having become vacant, the Prince Azeem-ool-Dowlah Bahadoor has been established by the English East India Company in the rank, property, and possessions of his ancestors, heretofore Nawabs of the Carnatic; and whereas the said Company and His Highness the said Prince Azeem-ool-Dowlah Bahadoor have judged it expedient that additional provisions should at this time be made for the purpose of supplying the defects of all former engagements, and of establishing the connection between

the said contracting parties on a permanent basis of security, in all CARNATIC. times to come; wherefore the following Treaty is now established and No. XLIV. concluded by the Right Honourable Edward Lord Clive, Governor in Council of Fort St. George, by and with the sanction and authority of His Excellency the Most Noble the Marquis Wellesley, K. P., Governor General in Council of all the British possessions in the East Indies, on behalf of the said United Company, on the one part, and by His Highness the Nawab Wolau Jah Ummeer-ool-Dowlah Madar-ool-Moolk Ummeer-ool-Hind Azeem-ool-Dowlah Bahadoor Showkut Jung Sippa Salar, Nawab Soubadar of the Carnatic, on his own behalf, on the other part, for settling the succession to the soubadarry of the territories of Arcot, and for vesting the administration of the civil and military government of the Carnatic in the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies.

ARTICLE 1.

The Nawab Azeem-ool-Dowlah Bahadoor is hereby formally established in the state and rank, with the dignities dependent thereon, of his ancestors, heretofore Nawabs of the Carnatic, and the possession thereof is hereby guaranteed by the Honourable East India Company to His said Highness Azeem-ool-Dowlah Bahadoor, who has accordingly succeeded to the soubadarry of the territories of Arcot.

ARTICLE 2.

Such parts of the Treaties heretofore concluded between the said East India Company and their Highnesses, heretofore Nawabs of the Carnatic, as are calculated to strengthen the alliance, to cement the friendship, and to identify the interests of the contracting parties, are hereby renewed and confirmed, and accordingly the friends or enemies of either are the friends and enemies of both parties.

ARTICLE 3.

The Honourable Company hereby charges itself with the maintenance and support of the military force necessary for the defence of the Carnatic, and for the protection of the rights, person, and property of 2 k

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CARNATIC. the said Nawab Azeem-ool-Dowlah Bahadoor; and with the view of No. XLIV. reviving the fundamental principles of the alliance between his ancestors and the English nation, the said Nawab Azeem-ool-Dowlah stipulates and agrees that he will not enter upon any negociation or correspondence with any European or Native power, without the knowledge and consent of the said English Company.

ARTICLE 4.

It is hereby stipulated and agreed that the sole and exclusive administration of the civil and military governments of all the territories and dependencies of the Carnatic Payen Ghat, together with the full and exclusive right to the revenues thereof (with the exception of such portion of the said revenues as shall be appropriated for the maintenance of the said Nawab and for the support of his dignity) shall be for ever vested in the said English Company; and the said Company shall accordingly possess the sole power and authority of constituting and appointing, without any interference on the part of the said Nawab, all officers for the collection of the revenues, and of establishing Courts for the administration of civil and criminal judicature.

ARTICLE 5.

It is hereby stipulated and agreed that one-fifth part of the net revenues of the Carnatic shall be annually allotted for the maintenance and support of the said Nawab and of his own immediate family, including the mahal of His late Highness the Ummeer-ool-Omrah. The said fifth part shall be paid by the Company, in monthly instalments of twelve thousand Star Pagodas; and whatever circumstance may occur affecting the net revenues of the Carnatic, the said instalments shall not be less than twelve thousand Star Pagodas. Whatever balance of the said fifth part may remain due at the expiration of each year, shall be liquidated upon the settlement of the accounts, and the said fifth part shall be at the free disposal of the said Nawab, consistently with the principles of the said alliance.

ARTICLE 6.

The fifth part of the revenues, as stated in the preceding Article, shall be calculated and determined in the following manner, viz., all

charges of every description incurred in the collection of the revenues, CARNATIC. the amount of the jaghire lands, stated in the ninth Article in the No. XLIV. Treaty of 1787 at Star Pagodas 2,13,421, and the sum of Pagodas 6,21,105, appropriable to the liquidation of the debts of the late Mahomed Ali, shall, in the first instance, be deducted from the revenues of the Carnatic; and after the deduction of those three items shall have been made, one-fifth part of the remaining net revenue (including the polygar peshcush, which shall always be calculated at the sum of 2,64,704 Star Pagodas 20 Fanams 26 Cash, according to the Treaty of 1792) shall be allotted for the maintenance of the said Nawab, and for the support of His Highness's dignity.

ARTICLE 7.

Whereas it was stipulated by the fourth Article of the Treaty of 1792 that the sum of six lakhs twenty-one thousand one hundred and five Star Pagodas should annually be applied to the discharge of certain registered debts due by the late Nawab Mahomed Ali to his private creditors, under agreements concluded between His Highness and the Honourable Company, and guaranteed by the Parliament of Great Britain, until the said registered debt should be liquidated; the Honourable English Company accordingly hereby charges itself with the annual payment of 6,21,105 Pagodas from the revenues of the Carnatic, until the remainder of the said registered debt shall be liquidated.

ARTICLE 8.

Whereas certain debts are due to the said Company by the ancestors of the said Nawab, and whereas it is expedient, in order that the present Treaty may include a complete arrangement of all affairs depending between the said Company and the said Nawab, that an adjustment should be made of the aforementioned debts, wherefore the said Nawab formally and explicitly acknowledges the debt, commonly called the cavalry loan, amounting, with its interest, to 13,24,342 Star Pagodas 6 Fanams 47 Cash, and also the portion of the registered debt heretofore paid by the said Company to the creditors of the late Nawab Wolau Jah (according to the annexed Schedule) to be just debts; and whereas, exclusively of the above-mentioned debts, other unadjusted debts also