ABAD. No. XII. the Deccan, and the Honourable Company's government, shall be consi- HYDERdered to subsist with equal force and sincerity and shall continue for ever unimpaired between His late Highness's eldest son and successor, the Nawab Secunder Jah, and the Honourable Company, and all Treaties and engagements which subsisted between His late Highness and the Honourable Company's government shall be considered to be in full force to all intents and purposes. And His Excellency the Most Noble the Governor General in Council hereby declares, on the part of the Honourable Company, that the British Government is effectually bound by the said engagements and Treaties, and that the said engagements and Treaties shall be duly observed until the end of time. Given under the seal of the Honourable Company, and the signature of His Excellency the Most Noble the Governor General in Council, at Fort William in Bengal, this 24th day of August 1803. ENGAGEMENT between SECUNDER JAH and the COMPANY, 1803. The friendship and union which so strongly and happily subsisted between the late Nawab Nizam Ali Khan Bahadoor (whose soul is in Paradise), and the Honourable Company's government are to be considered as perfectly unimpaired, and shall meet with no interruption whatever. All existing Treaties and engagements likewise that were contracted with the late Nawab aforesaid are in full force to all intents and purposes; and we hereby declare that we are effectually bound by the engagements and Treaties aforesaid, and by the blessing of God, the said Treaties and engagements shall be duly observed until the end of time. Signed and sealed on the 7th day of August, Anno Domini 1803, answering to Rubbee-oos-Sanee, A. H. 1218, with the seal and signature of Meer Foulaad Ali Khan Secunder Jah Bahadoor, Soubadar of the Deccan, and delivered in duplicate, on the day aforesaid, by His Highness himself to Major James Achilles Kirkpatrick, Resident at the Court of Hyderabad. No. XIII. PARTITION TREATY of Hyderabad, with HIS HIGHNESS THE SOUBADAR of the TREATY for the settlement of general peace in Hindostan and the Deccan, and Whereas, by the terms of the Treaties of peace concluded by Major General the Honourable Arthur Wellesley, on the part of the Honourable Company and its allies, with the Maharajah Senah Saheb Soubah, Rajah of Berar, at Deogaum, on the 17th of December, 1803, and with Maharajah Dowlut Rao Sindia, at Surjee Anjengaum, on the 30th of that month, which Treaties have been duly ratified by the Governor General in Council and by the allies of the British Government, certain forts and territories have been ceded by Maharajah Senah Saheb Soubah, and by Maharajah Dowlut Rao Sindia, to the Honourable Company and its allies, the following Articles of agreement, for the settlement of the said forts and territories, have been concluded by the British Government and by the said allies: ARTICLE 1. The province of Cuttack, including the port and district of Balasore, and all cessions of every description made by the second Article of the Treaty of Deogaum, or by any Treaties which have been confirmed by the tenth Article of the said Treaty of Deogaum, shall belong in perpetual sovereignty to the Honourable English East India Company. ARTICLE 2. The territories of which Maharajah Senah Saheb Soubah formerly collected the revenues, in participation with His Highness the Soubadar of the Deccan, and those formerly possessed by Maharajah Senah HYDER ABAD. Saheb Soubah, to the westward of the river Wurdah, ceded by the third Article of the Treaty of Deogaum, and the territory situated to the southward of the hills, on which are the forts of Nernullah No. XIII. and Gawilghur, and to the westward of the river Wurdah, stated by the fourth Article of the Treaty of Deogaum to belong to the British Government and its allies, shall belong in perpetual sovereignty to His Highness the Soubadar of the Deccan, with the exception of the districts reserved to Senah Saheb Soubah in the fifth Article of the said Treaty of Deogaum. ARTICLE 3. All the forts, territories, and rights of Maharajah Dowlut Rao Sindia in the Doab, or country situated between the Jumna and Ganges, and all his forts, territories, rights, and interests in the countries which are to the northward of those of the Rajahs of Jeypore and Jodhpore, and of the Rana of Gohud, ceded by the second Article of the Treaty of Surjee Anjengaum, shall belong in perpetual sovereignty to the Honourable Company. ARTICLE 4. The fort of Baroach and territory depending thereon, ceded by the third Article of the Treaty of Surjee Anjengaum, shall belong in perpetual sovereignty to the Honourable Company. ARTICLE 5. The fort and city of Ahmednugger, together with such part of the territory depending thereon as is ceded by the third Article of the Treaty of Surjee Anjengaum to the Honourable Company and its allies, shall belong in perpetual sovereignty to His Highness the Peishwa. ARTICLE 6. All the territories which belonged to Maharajah Dowlut Rao Sindia before the commencement of the late war, situated to the southward of the hills called the Adjuntee Hills, including the fort and district of Jalnapore, the town and district of Gandapore, and all other districts between that range of hills and the river Godavery, ceded by the fourth VOL. V. n HYDER- No. XIII. Article of the Treaty of Surjee Anjengaum to the Honourable Company and its allies, shall belong in perpetual sovereignty to His Highness the Soubadar of the Deccan. ARTICLE 7. All cessions made to the Honourable Company by any Treaties which have been confirmed by the ninth Article of the Treaty of Surjee Anjengaum shall belong in perpetual sovereignty to the Honourable Company. ARTICLE 8. This Treaty, consisting of eight Articles, being this day, the 17th of Mohurrum, corresponding with the 28th of April, settled and concluded at Hyderabad by Major James Achilles Kirkpatrick, with His Highness the Nawab Ausuph Jah Meer Ukbur Ali Khan Bahadoor, Soubadar of the Deccan, the said Major James Achilles Kirkpatrick has delivered to His said Highness a copy of the same, in English and Persian, under the seal and signature of the said Major James Achilles Kirkpatrick, and His Highness the Nawab Ausuph Jah Meer Akber Ali Khan Bahadoor has delivered to the said Major James Achilles Kirkpatrick another copy also in Persian and English, bearing His Highness's seal and signature; and the aforesaid Major James Achilles Kirkpatrick has engaged to procure and deliver to His said Highness without delay a copy of the same, duly ratified by His Excellency the Most Noble the Governor General in Council, on the receipt of which by His said Highness the present Treaty shall be deemed complete and binding on the Honourable the English East India Company, and His Highness, and the copy of it now delivered to His said Highness the Nawab Ausuph Jah shall be returned. Done at Hyderabad, this 28th day of April, Anno Domini 1804, or 17th day of Mohurrum, Anno Hegira 1219. No. XIV. TREATY between the HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY and HIS HIGHNESS THE SOUBADAR of the DECCAN and his children, heirs, and successors, for the further confirmation of friendship and unity of interests, concluded through the Agency of CHARLES THEOPHILUS METCALFE, Esq., Resident at the Court of His said Highness, by virtue of full powers to that effect vested in him by HIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST NOBLE FRANCIS, MARQUIS OF HASTINGS, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight G. c., of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, one of His Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Governor General in Council, 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 Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's and the Honourable Company's Forces. Whereas certain rights, forts, and territories have come into the possession of the Honourable East India Company from the States of Nagpore and Holkar, and in consequence of the reduction and occupation of the dominions of the Peishwa, the following Articles of agreement for the settlement of the said rights, forts, and territories have been concluded by the said Honourable Company and His said Highness the Soubadar of the Deccan. ARTICLE 1. All former Treaties and engagements between the two States now in force and not contrary to the tenor of this Treaty shall be confirmed by it. ARTICLE 2. The arrears of all claims and demands of chout, and of all other claims whatever on the territories or government of His Highness the Nizam, due by His said Highness to the Peishwa, are hereby declared to be extinguished, and His said Highness is released in perpetuity from the payment of all chout of every description on account of any part of his possessions. ARTICLE 3. His Highness the Nizam being desirous of possessing certain of the HYDER- No. XIV. |