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HYDER
ABAD.

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ADDITIONAL ARTICLE of TREATY between the HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY on the one part, and HIS HIGHNESS NAWAB NIZAM-OOL-MOOLK AUSUPH JAH MEER UKBUR ALI KHAN BAHADOOR, Soubah of the Deccan, his children, heirs, and successors, on the other; to be considered as appertaining to the Treaty of perpetual and general defensive alliance concluded at Hyderabad on the 12th of October 1800 a. D., or 22nd of Jemmadee-ul-Awul 1215 A. H.

ARTICLE.

In the event (which God however avert!) of joint war breaking out hereafter with any other power, it is hereby agreed that, during the continuance thereof, all officers and all troops, whether individually or collectively, belonging to either of the contracting parties, shall have free ingress and egress to and from all the territories, and to and from all the forts belonging to each other respectively; and it is hereby further agreed that all officers, whether Civil or Military, belonging to either government, shall, when requisite, employ all their power and all the resources at their command in facilitating the operations of the troops employed, to whichever of the two contracting powers they may happen to belong.

Signed, sealed, and exchanged at Hyderabad, this 9th of January, 1804, agreeing with 25th Ramzan, A. H. 1218.

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COMMERCIAL TREATY with the NIZAM, 1802.

TREATY for the improvement and security of the trade and commerce between the territories of the HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY and of HIS HIGHNESS THE NAWAB NIZAM-OOL-MOOLK AUSUPH JAH, Soubadar of the Deccan; settled by MAJOR JAMES ACHILLES KIRKPATRICK, Resident at the Court of His Highness, by virtue of the powers delegated to him by HIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST NOBLE RICHARD, MARQUIS WELLESLEY, Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick, one of His Britannic Majesty's Privy Council, Governor General in Council, Captain General and Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's and the Honourable Company's Forces in India, appointed by the Honourable the Court of Directors of the said Honourable Company to direct and control all their affairs in the East Indies, and Governor General in Council of all the British possessions in the East Indies.

Whereas a well regulated commerce is essential to the opulence and prosperity of the people and to the wealth and power of the State; and whereas a free and secure commercial intercourse tends to maintain and improve the relations of amity, peace, and concord between contiguous nations:

Wherefore the Honourable East India Company and His Highness the Nawab Ausuph Jah, anxious to improve by every possible means the close and intimate connection now happily established between the two States, and to extend the benefits of their union to their respective subjects, have agreed on the following Articles of a Treaty of commerce between the two States: :

ARTICLE 1.

As the testimony of the firm friendship, union, and attachment, subsisting between the Honourable Company and His Highness the Nawab Ausuph Jah, the Honourable Company hereby agree to grant to His Highness the free use of the seaport of Masulipatam; at which port His Highness shall be at liberty to establish a commercial factory and agents under such regulations as the nature of the Company's government shall require and as shall be adjusted between the Governor-General in Council and His said Highness.

ARTICLE 2.

His Highness's ships bearing his flag shall be entitled at all times. to the protection of His Britannic Majesty's and of the Honourable

No. XI.

ABAD.

HYDER Company's ships of war, and shall be admitted into all the ports belonging to the British Government in India upon the footing of the most favoured nations.

No. XI.

ARTICLE 3.

There shall be a free transit between the territories of the contracting parties of all articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture of each respectively; and also of all articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any part of His Britannic Majesty's dominions.

ARTICLE 4.

All rahdarry duties and all duties collected by individual renters or zemindars on goods passing to and from the territories of the contracting parties shall be abolished, and all zemindars, renters, &c., shall be strictly prohibited from committing any acts of extortion or violence on the merchants passing through the respective territories of the contracting parties.

ARTICLE 5.

A duty of five per cent. and no more shall be levied at Hyderabad indiscriminately on all articles of merchandize whatever imported into His Highness's dominions from the Company's possessions. No articles shall pay duty more than once. The duties payable shall be regulated by a just valuation of the article or commodity on which they shall be charged, and which shall be determined by an invoice, authenticated by the seal and signature of the proper Officer on each side: nor shall any arbitrary valuation of any article or commodity be admitted to enhance the amount of the duties payable thereon, and the said duties shall be fixed and immutable except by the mutual consent of the contracting parties.

ARTICLE 6.

The Honourable East India Company shall on their part adopt similar arrangements in every respect for the purpose of facilitating the transit through their dominions of all articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of His Highness's territories, and of guarding the same from all unjust exactions or vexatious imposts whatever.

ARTICLE 7.

The duties payable to the Honourable Company on all articles imported into their territories from His Highness's dominions shall be collected in the mode prescribed by the fifth Article at Masulipatam alone, or at one or more places according to the convenience of the merchants belonging to His Highness's dominions; and the said place or places shall be fixed with the consent of His Highness the Nizam, it being understood that no article imported from His Highness's dominions shall in any case pay duty more than once, whether the said duty be collected at Masulipatam or elsewhere.

ARTICLE 8.

A duty of five per cent. and no more shall be levied once by His Highness's government, and be made payable at Hyderabad on the prime cost of all commodities purchased in His Highness's dominions for exportation.

ARTICLE 9.

No merchants or traders under the Company's government shall be allowed to re-vend in the dominions of the Nawab aforesaid the productions or manufactures of his territories purchased by them therein. Neither shall any grain be exported from the territories of the Nawab aforesaid into those of the Honourable Company without a special licence for the purpose; nor any more grain be purchased in His Highness's territories than what is necessary for the consumption of the subsidiary force. But it is at the same time hereby agreed that, in cases of necessity, permission shall reciprocally be granted immediately on application for the transportation of grain, free from all duties whatever, into the respective territories of the two contracting powers in Hindostan and Deccan.

ARTICLE 10.

The traders under both governments, namely, all such as shall traffic from the Honourable East India Company's territories to the territories of His Highness the Nawab Ausuph Jah, and vice versa, shall, upon the importation of their commodities into the respective territories, pay once a duty of five per cent. according to the terms prescribed in the foregoing Articles. With respect to others who do not come under the above description, such as traders from foreign parts or inhabitants of

HYDER

ABAD.

No. XII.

HYDER Hyderabad, who have always paid the usual duties, the kurrorah shall, as heretofore, levy duties from them according to custom.

ABAD.

Nos. XI. &
XII.

ARTICLE 11.

The preceding regulations shall take effect and be established in the respective territories of the contracting parties on the 1st day of September next, answering to the 2nd of Jemmadee-ul-Awul, A. H. 1217, after which day no duties shall be levied in any other manner than in conformity to the stipulations of this Treaty.

ARTICLE 12.

This Treaty, consisting of twelve Articles, being this day settled by Major James Achilles Kirkpatrick with the Nawab Ausuph Jah Bahadoor, Major Kirkpatrick has delivered one copy thereof in English and Persian, signed and sealed by himself, to the said Nawab, who on his part has also delivered one copy of the same duly executed by himself: and Major Kirkpatrick, by virtue of special authority given to him in that behalf by His Excellency the Most Noble the Governor General in Council, hereby declares the said Treaty to be in full force from the date hereof, and engages to procure and deliver to His Highness in the space of fifty days, a copy of the same from the Governor General in Council, in every respect the counterpart of that executed by himsef, and on the delivery of such copy, the Treaty executed by Major Kirkpatrick shall be returned. Signed, sealed, and exchanged at Hyderabad, this 12th day of April, A. D. 1802, or 8th day of Zehidge, A. H. 1816.

Seal of the Nizam.

(Signed)

J. A. KIRKPATRICK,

Resident.

No. XII.

INSTRUMENT under the signature of the Governor General in Council, delivered to the NIZAM (SECUNDER JAH) on his accession to the musnud, recognising all the former Treaties and engagements with NIZAM ALI deceased.

The friendship and alliance which so firmly and happily subsisted between His late Highness the Nawab Nizam Ali Khan, Soubadar of

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