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INDUS NAVIGATION TREATY
APP XXVIII
359
Honourable the Governor-General, shall be carried into execution accordingly.
Dated at Lahore the 26th of December 1832. [Seal and signature at the top.]
APPENDIX XXIX
SUPPLEMENTARY INDUS NAVIGATION TREATY OF 1834 Draft c/ a Supplementary Treaty between the British Government and Maharaja Ranjit Singh for establishing a Toll on the Indus. (29th November 1834.)
In conformity
with
the
subsisting
relations
of
and confirmed by former treaties, between the Honourable the East India Company and his Highness Maharaja Ranjit Singh; and whereas in the 5th article of the treaty concluded at Lahore on the 26th day of December 1832, it was stipulated that a moderate scale of duties should be fixed by the two Governments in concert, to be levied on all merchandise on transit up and down the rivers Indus and Sutlej; the said Governments, being now of opinion that, owing to the inexperience of the people friendship, as established
of these countries in such matters, the mode of levying duties then proposed (viz. on the value and quantity of goods) could not fail to give rise to mutual misunderstandings and reclamations, have, with a view to prevent these results, determined to substitute a toll, which shall be levied on all boats, with whatever merchandise laden. The following articles have therefore been adopted as supplementary to the former treaty; and, in conformity with them, each Government engages that the toll shall be levied, and its amount neither be increased nor diminished except by mutual consent. Article 1. A toll of 570 Rs. shall be levied on all boats laden with merchandise in transit on the rivers Indus and Sutlej between the sea and Rupar, without reference to their size, or to the weight or value of their cargo; the above toll to be divided among the different States in proportion to the extent of territory which they possess on the banks of these rivers. Article 2. The portion of the above toll appertaining to the Lahore Chief in right of his territory on both banks of these rivers, as determined in the subjoined scale, shall be levied opposite to Mithankot on
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APP XXVIII
359
Honourable the Governor-General, shall be carried into execution accordingly.
Dated at Lahore the 26th of December 1832. [Seal and signature at the top.]
APPENDIX XXIX
SUPPLEMENTARY INDUS NAVIGATION TREATY OF 1834 Draft c/ a Supplementary Treaty between the British Government and Maharaja Ranjit Singh for establishing a Toll on the Indus. (29th November 1834.)
In conformity
with
the
subsisting
relations
of
and confirmed by former treaties, between the Honourable the East India Company and his Highness Maharaja Ranjit Singh; and whereas in the 5th article of the treaty concluded at Lahore on the 26th day of December 1832, it was stipulated that a moderate scale of duties should be fixed by the two Governments in concert, to be levied on all merchandise on transit up and down the rivers Indus and Sutlej; the said Governments, being now of opinion that, owing to the inexperience of the people friendship, as established
of these countries in such matters, the mode of levying duties then proposed (viz. on the value and quantity of goods) could not fail to give rise to mutual misunderstandings and reclamations, have, with a view to prevent these results, determined to substitute a toll, which shall be levied on all boats, with whatever merchandise laden. The following articles have therefore been adopted as supplementary to the former treaty; and, in conformity with them, each Government engages that the toll shall be levied, and its amount neither be increased nor diminished except by mutual consent. Article 1. A toll of 570 Rs. shall be levied on all boats laden with merchandise in transit on the rivers Indus and Sutlej between the sea and Rupar, without reference to their size, or to the weight or value of their cargo; the above toll to be divided among the different States in proportion to the extent of territory which they possess on the banks of these rivers. Article 2. The portion of the above toll appertaining to the Lahore Chief in right of his territory on both banks of these rivers, as determined in the subjoined scale, shall be levied opposite to Mithankot on
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