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R (V). Articles of a Treaty and Agreement concluded between the Governor and Council of Fort William on the part of the English East India Compay and the Nobab Nudjum-ul-Dowla. On the part of the Company. We the Governor and Council, do engage to secure to the Nobab Nudium-ul Dowla, Soubahdarry of the Provinces of Bengal, Behar and Orissa ; and to support him therein with the Company's forces against all his enemies. We will also, at all times, keep up such force as may be necessary effectually to assist and support him in the defence of the provinces, and as our troops will be more to be depended on than any the Nobab can have, and less expensive to him, he need therefore entertain none, but such as are requisite for the support of the Civil officers of his government, and the business of his collections through the different districts. We do further promise, that in consideration the Nobab shall continue to assist in defraying the extraordinary expenses of the war, now carrying against Shujah-ul-Dowla, with the five lakhs of Rupees per mouth which was agreed to by his father, whatever sums may be hereafter received of the king, on account of our assistance afforded him in the war, shall be repaid to the Nobab. On the part of the Nobab. In consideration of the assistance the Governor and Council has agreed to afford in securing to me the succession in the Soubahdarry of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, heretofore held by my father the late Nobab Meer Jaffier Ally Khan, and supporting 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 fromerly concluded with the Company, upon his first accession to the Nizamut, engaging to regard the honour and repulation of the Company and of their Governor and Council as his own, and granting perwanahas for the Currency of the Company's trade, the same Treaty, as far as is consistent with the Articles hereafter agreed to, I do hereby ratify and confirm. 2. Considering the weighty charge of Govennment, and how essential it is for myself, for the welfare of the country, and for the Company's business, that I shall have a person who has had experience therein to advise and assist me, I do agree to have one fixed with me, with the advice of the Governor and Council, in the station of Naib Soubah, who shall accordingly have immediately under me the chief management of all affairs: And as Mohomed Reza Khan, the Naib of Dacea, has in every respect my approbation and that of the Governor and Gouncil. I do further agree that this trust shall be conferred on him and I will not displace him without the acquiescence of those gentlemen; and on case any alteratio in this appoint =