Nawab Omdet-ool-Omrah Najun-ool-Moolk Assud-ool-Dowlah Hossein CARNATIC. Ali Khan Bahadoor Zoolficar Jung, and his heirs and successors, on No. XLII. the other part, agree to the following Articles, which shall be binding on the respective contracting parties for the purposes contained therein, notwithstanding all or any of the conditions stipulated in the engagement dated the 24th February 1787 to the contrary.

ARTICLE 1.

The friends and enemies of either of the contracting parties shall be considered the friends and enemies of both.

ARTICLE 2.

In order to execute the foregoing Article in its full extent the Honourable English East India Company agree to maintain a military force, and the Nawab Wolau Jah Bahadoor agrees to contribute annually a certain sum of money, hereinafter mentioned, as his share of the expense of the said military force; the said Nawab further agreeing that the disposal of the said sum, together with the arrangement and employment of the troops supported by it, shall be left. entirely to the said Company.

ARTICLE 3.

It is hereby also agreed, that for the further security and defence of the countries belonging and subject to the contracting parties in the Carnatic, &c., that all forts shall be garrisoned by the troops of the said Company and in the event of war breaking out in the Carnatic and countries appertaining to either party, and dependent on the Carnatic or contiguous thereto, it is agreed, for the better prosecution of it, that as long as it should last the said Company shall possess full authority over the Carnatic (except the jaghires belonging to the family of the said Nawab, amounting to Star Pagodas 2,13,911, which, on condition of the good behaviour of the jaghiredars of the said jaghires, and of their fidelity to the said Nawab and to the said Company, shall be continued to them, subject to the pleasure of the said Nawab only, and except also certain charities, amounting to Star Pagodas 21,366, subject to the same conditions as are mentioned with respect to the jaghires) and

CARNATIC. shall collect the revenues thereof, the said Company hereby engaging No. XLII. that during such war they will pay to the said Nawab one-fifth share of the net revenue arising therefrom, and that at the conclusion of the war the Carnatic shall be restored to the said Nawab, except in certain cases which are hereinafter mentioned.

ARTICLE 4.

The Nawab Wolau Jah agrees to pay to the said Company, for the purpose of mutual defence, the sum of nine lakhs of Star Pagodas annually, as his share of the expense for the military force; and also in consequence of certain agreements entered into by him with the said Company, and guaranteed by the Parliament of Great Britain, for the purpose of liquidating certain debts due by the said Nawab, a further sum of 6,21,105 Star Pagodas annually, which further sum of 6,21,105 Star Pagodas shall cease on the full liquidation of the debts abovementioned, and the sum of 9,00,000 of Star Pagodas only shall continue to be paid by the said Nawab to the Company.

ARTICLE 5.

The said Nawab having agreed to pay the aggregate sum of 15,21,105 Star Pagodas, as mentioned in the fourth Article, determines that the tributes or peshcush payable by the polygars, as more particularly mentioned in the Schedule No. 1, hereunto annexed, shall be collected by the said Company, who agree to make the collection thereof at their own expense and risk, and that they will not increase the demand on the said polygars beyond the sum mentioned in the said Schedule, except in the case hereinafter mentioned, nor charge to the said Nawab either the expense attending the collection or any deficiencies that may arise thereon, but will give credit to the said Nawab annually for the aforesaid tributes or peshcush, in part payment of the sum of nine lakhs of Star Pagodas abovementioned, without any deduction whatever. Although the contracting parties have in the present instrument agreed that the sum of 2,64,704 Star Pagodas 20 Fanams 26 Cash be deducted from the sum of nine lakhs of Pagodas as the amount of the tributes or peshcush from the polygars; yet should it on future enquiry appear that the said polygars ought, by virtue of

any existing and lawful engagements, to pay a larger sum, it shall CARNATIC. be demanded of them; and any addition that shall thus be made to No. XLII. the sums mentioned in the said Schedule shall be deducted from the sum of nine lakhs, in like manner with the sum of 2,64,704 Star Pagodas 20 Fanams 26 Cash, and a similar deduction shall in consequence be made in the kistbundy hereinafter mentioned. It is however mutually aggreed that the diminution of this aggregate sum, which shall take place on the full liquidation of the debts, as specified in the fourth Article, shall make no change in this Article, which shall, notwithstanding such diminution, remain in full force.

ARTICLE 6.

The said Company, desirous of preserving the rights of sovereignty over the said polygars to the said Nawab, engage to the utmost of their power, and consistent with the realization of the tributes or peshcush from them, to enforce the allegiance and submission of the said polygars to the said Nawab, in customary ceremonies, and in furnishing the polygar peons, according to established custom, for the collection of the revenues, the support of government, and for the protection of the property of the inhabitants of the said Nawab's country, promising that all acts of authority shall be exercised, and all accounts of revenue (of which accounts the said Nawab, if he so wishes, shall be annually furnished with copies) shall bear his, the said Nawab's, name. For the better execution of this and the fifth Article, the said Nawab promises to furnish to the said Company, that is to say to their representatives, the President and Council of Fort St. George, the necessary orders, under his seal and signature, addressed to each polygar, and to the purport hereof, without delay.

ARTICLE 7.

After deducting from the abovementioned sum of nine lakhs of Star Pagodas, which forms a part of the aggregate sum of 15,21,105 Star Pagodas, mentioned in the fifth Article, the amount of the tributes or peshcush from the polygars, as specified in the Schedule No. 1, the said Nawab agrees to pay annually the remaining sum, being 6,35,295 Star Pagodas 15 Fanams 54 Cash, together with the further sum of

CARNATIC. 6,21,105 Star Pagodas for the purpose mentioned in the fourth Article, No. XLII. making the sum of 12,56,400 Star Pagodas 15 Fanams 54 Cash, at the following periods :

And it is mutually agreed that on the full liquidation of the debts before mentioned, when the payment of the sum of Star Pagodas 6,21,105 shall cease, by virtue of the fourth Article a reduction in equal proportion shall take place in the above instalments,"

ARTICLE 8.

The said Nawab engages to make good to the said Company the payments of the sums, according to the instalments of kistbundy contained in the seventh Article; and if, contrary to his sincere intentions and exertions, any of the said sums shall not be fully paid at the expiration of fifteen days from the time limited, in that case the said Nawab agrees that the said Company shall assume the management of and make the collection of the revenues from the districts mentioned in the Schedule No. 2, hereunto annexed, according to the following conditions and for this the present engagement shall be considered sufficient authority, the said Company, through their President and Council at Fort St. George, giving immediate and explicit information, according to the tenor thereof, to the said Nawab, who shall, on the arrival of the Company's officers in the said district, recall all his officers, except one in each district, which officers shall remain at the sudder cutcherry, and shall be furnished annually, by the officer of the said Company, with copies of sudder cutcherry accounts, of the gross collections, and of the

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net receipts, under the attestation of the officer of the said Company, CARNATIC. and of the sudder omlah of the district.

First. The said Company shall assume the management of such
district or districts, the revenues of which, after deduct-

ing the charges of collections, shall equal the amount of the
kist which shall have fallen in arrear.

Second. The said Company agree that a deduction shall take place
proportionably from the amount of each of the ten kists
abovementioned, equal to the amount of the net revenue of
the district or districts which shall have been assumed as
above, such deduction commencing from the day that the
assumption shall take place. It is also mutually agreed
that an account, called "Balance Account," shall be im-
mediately opened for this and other purposes hereinafter
mentioned, bearing an interest of eight per cent. per
annum, between the said Nawab and the said Company, in
which the said Nawab shall be debited for the balance
accrued in his above stipulated payments, and also for the
amount deducted, as above, from the ten kists, and shall be
credited for the net revenue collected from the said district or
districts, the said Company continuing to exercise authority
in, and to make the collections from the same, until, in
consequence of the full liquidation of the debts and dimi-
nution of the annual sum to be for that purpose paid by
the Nawab to the said Company, according to the fourth
Article, the said balance account shall be equal on the debit
and credit side, and nothing shall remain due to the said
Company, then the said district or districts shall revert to
the management of the said Nawab.

Third. Whenever the said district or districts, thus assumed, shall be restored, according to the above condition, it is agreed that, in case of any of the kists for the sum remaining (after the deduction of the sum of 6,35,21,105 Star Pagodas, that is to say, for the sum of 6,35,295 Star Pagodas 15 Fanams 54 Cash) be not paid fifteen days after the expiration of the time limited, the said Company

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