পাতা:বাঙ্গলার ইতিহাস-অষ্টাদশ শতাব্দী-নবাবী আমল.pdf/৬১২

o বাঙ্গলার ইতিহাস । (IV) ARTICLES OF A TREATY AND AGREEMENT BET. WEEN THE GOVERNOR and council ol Fort William, on the part of the English East India Company and the Nobab Shuja-ul-Mulk, Hossam-o-Dowla, Meer Mohomed Jaffier Khan Bahadur, Mahabut Jung, 1763. I he Seal of the Nobab -- Company’s Meer Mahomed Jaffer Khan Bahadur, Mahabut large Seal. Jung, &c. ON THE PART OF THE COMPANY. We engage to reinstate the Nobab Meer Mahomed Jaffier Khan Bahadur in the Soubahdarry of the provinces of Bengal, Behar and Orissa, by the deposal of Meer Mahomed Kossim Khan, and the effects, treasure, and jewel &c., belonging to Meer Mahomed Kossim Khan, which shall fall into our hands, shall be delivered up to the Nobab aforenamed. ON THE PART OF THE NOBAB. I. The treaty which I formerly concluded with the Company upon my accession to the Nizamut, engaging to regard the honor and reputation of the Company, their Governor and Council, as my own, granting perwannahs for the Currency of the Company's business ; the same Treaty I now confirm and ratify. 2. I do grant and confirm to the Company, for defraying the expenses of their troops, the Chucklas of Burdwan, Midnapore, and Chittagong, which were before ceded for the same purpose. 3. I do ratify and confirm to the English the privilege granted them by their Firmaund and several Husbul-hookums, of carying on their trade by the means of their own dustuck, free from all duties, taxes or impositions, in all parts of the country excepting the articles of salt, on which a duty of 2% percent is to be levied on the rowana or Hooghly market price. 4. I give to the Company half the saltpetre which is producd in the country of Purnea, which their Gomastahs shall send to Calcutta. The other half shall be collected by my Foujdar, for the use of my offices ; and I will suffer no other person to make purchases of this article in that country, 5. In the Chuckla of Sylhet, for the space of five years, commencing with the Bengal year i 17o my Foujdar and the Company's Gomastah shall jointly prepare chunam, of which each shall defray half the expenses ; and half the chunam so made shall be given to the Company, and the other half shall be for my use. 6. I will maintain twelve thousand horse and twelve thousand foot in the provinces. If there should be occasion for any more, the number shall be increased by consent of the Governor and Council,