aforefaid Rajah having fettled terms with the Chiefs 1764 of the English Company, is, according thereto, to pay the revenues to the Company; and the amount fhall not belong to the books of the royal revenue, but fhall be expunged from them. The army of the English Company having joined our ftandard, fhall put us in poffeffion of Illahabad, and the reft of the countries belonging to the nizamut of the Nabob Sujah al Dowlah, and the revenues, excepting those of Rajah Bulwant Sing's zemindary, fhall be in our entire management and difpofal. As the English Company will be at a further expence in putting us in poffeffion of Illahabad, and the reft of the nizamut of the Nabob Sujah al Dowlah, we will therefore, as we get poffeffion, grant to them out of our treasury fuch a proportion of the revenues as the exigencies of our affairs will admit of; and when we are put in full poffeffion, we will reimburse the whole expences of the Company in this bufinefs from the time of their joining our royal ftandard. C. Firman de l'Empereur Shah Allum accordant à la 29. Dec. (BOLTS 1. c. p. 21. VERELST p. 164.) As the English Company have been put to a great expence, and their affairs expofed to danger by the war which the Nabob Sujah al Dowlah unjustly and contrary to our royal pleasure waged against them; we have therefore affigned to them the country of Ghazipore, and the rest of the zemindary of Rajah Bulwant Sing, belonging to the nizamut of the Nabob Sujah al Dowlah, and the regulation and government thereof we have given to their difpofal, in the fame manner as it was in the Nabob Sujah al Dowlah's. A 2 The 1764 The aforefaid Rajah having fettled terms with the Chiefs of the English Company, is, according thereto, to pay the revenues to the Company. The army of the English Company having joined our standard, fhall put us in poffeffion of Illahabad and the reft of the countries belonging to the nizamut of the Nabob Sujah al Dowlah, and the revenues, excepting those of Rajah Bulwant Sing's zemindary, fhall be in our entire management and disposal. It becomes the Company to fhew their grateful fenfe of our royal favours, and to exert themselves to the utmost in the proper management and regulation of the country, to encourage and befriend our subjects, to punish the contentious and expel the rebellious from their territories. They muft ufe their best endeavours to promote the welfare of our people, the Ryots and other inhabitants, to prohibit the ufe of things of an intoxicating nature, and fuch as are forbidden by the law of God; in driving out enemies, in deciding caufes, and fettling matters agreeably to the rules of Mahomed and the law of the empire, fo that the inhabitants may apply themselves, with peace of mind and fatisfaction, to the cultivation of the country and exercise of other their profeffions, and that the weak may not labour under oppreffion and violence. will confider these as our ftrict injunctions. They Written on the 4th day of Rejub (29. Dec. 1764), the 6th year of the reign. Fort William, 6th February 1765. A true Copy of the translation, W. MAJENDIE, Secretary. d. d. Traité entre la Compagnie Anglaise des Indes Orien- 1765 tales et Naijm al Dowlah, lorsqu'elle lui confera a5. Feur. la Nabobie de Bengale à la mort de fon pere Meer Faffier Ally Khawn; en date du 25. Fevrier 1765. (BOLTS 1. c. p. 22. VERELST p. 164.) Articles of a treaty and agreement concluded between the We On the part of the Company. We the Governor and Council do engage to fecure to the Nabob Najim al Dowlah, the fubahdary of the provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Oriffa, and to fupport him therein with the Company's forces against all his enemies. We will alfo, at all times, keep up fuch force as may be neceffary, effectually to affift and fupport him in the defence of the provinces; and as our troops will be more to be depended on than any the Nabob can have, and less expensive to him, he need therefore entertain none but fuch as are requifite for the fupport of the civil officers of his government, and the business of his collections through the different diftri&ts. We do further promife, that, in confideration the Nabob shall continue to affift in defraying the extraordinary expences of the war now carrying on against Sujah al Dowlah, with five lacks of rupees per month, which was agreed to by his father, that whatever fums may be hereafter received of the King, on account of our affiftance afforded in the war, fhall be repaid to the Nabob. On the part of the Nabob, In confideration of the affistance which the Governor and Council have agreed to afford, in fecuring to me A 3 the 1765 the fucceffion in the fubahdary of Bengal, Bahar, and Oriffa, heretofore held by my father, the late Nabob Meer Jaffer Ally Khawn, and fupporting me in it against all my enemies, I do agree and bind, myself to the faithful performance of the following articles. 1) The treaty which my father formerly concluded with the Company upon his firft acceffion to the nizamut, engaging to regard the honour and reputation of the Company, and of their Governor and Council, as his own, and granting perwannahs for the currency of the Company's trade, the fame treaty, as far as is confiftent with the articles hereafter agreed to, I do hereby ratify and confirm. 2) Confidering the weighty charge of government, and how effential it is for myfelf, for the welfare of the country, and for the Company's business, that I fhould have a perfon who has had experience therein to advise and affift me, I do agree to have one fixed with me, with the advice of the Governor and Council, in the ftation of Naib Subah, who fhall accordingly have, immediately under me. the chief management of all affairs; and as Mahomed Reza Khawn, the Naib of Dacca, has in every refpe&t my approbation. and that of the Governor and Council, I do further agree, that this truft fhall be conferred on him; and I will not difplace him without the approbation of those gentlemen; and in cafe any alteration in this appointment fhould hereafter appear advifeable, that Mahomed Reza Khawn, provided he has acquitted himself with fidelity in his administration, fhall, in fuch cafe, be reinftated in the Naibfhip of Dacca, with the fame authority as heretofore. 3) The bufinefs of the collections of the revenues fhall, under the Naib Subah, be divided into two or more branches, as may appear proper: and as I have the fulleft dependence and confidence on the attachment of the English, and their regard to my intereft and dignity, and am defirous of giving them every teftimony thereof, I do further confent, that the appoint ment and difmiffion of the Mutfeddees of those branches, and the allotment of their feveral diftricts, fhall be with the approbation of the Governor and Council. And, confidering how much men of my rank and ftation station are obliged to truft to the eyes and recomman- 1765 on 4) I do confirm to the Company, as a fixed refource for defraying the ordinary expences of their troops, the Chacklahs of Burdwan, Midnipore, and Chittigong, in as full a manner as heretofore ceded by my father. The fum of five lacks of ficca rupees per month for their maintenance, was further agreed to be paid by my father; I agree to pay the fame out of my treasury, whilft the exigency for keeping up fo large an army continues. When the Company's occafions will admit a diminution of the expences they are put to, account of thofe troops, the Governor will then relieve me from fuch a proportion of this affignment, as the increased expences incurred by keeping up the whole force neceffary for the defence of the provinces will admitt of; and as I efteem the Company's troops entirely equal thereto and as my own, I will only maintain fuch as are immediately neceffary for the dignity of my perfon and government and the bufinefs of my collections through the provinces. 5) I do ratify and confirm to the English the privilege granted them by their firmaun and feveral hufbulhookums of carrying on their trade by means of their own duftuck, free from all duties, taxes, or impofitions in all parts of the country, excepting in the article of fait, on which a duty of 2 per cent. is to be levied on the Rowana, or Hoogly market price. 6) I give to the Company the liberty of purchafing half the faltpetre produced in the country of Purnea, which their gomaftahs fhall fend to Calcutta: the other half fhall be collected by my Fowzdar for the ufe of my offices: and I will fuffer no other perfons to make purchases of this article in that country. 7) In the Chucklah of Silhett, for the fpace of five years, commencing with the Bengal year 1171, my Fowzdar, and a gomaftah on the part of the Com |