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HISTORY OF THE SIKHS
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places are considered to be the property, and to form the estate, of the Maharaja the Shah neither has nor will have any concern with them; they belong to the Maharaja and his posterity from generation to generation. Article 2. The people of the country on the other side of Khaibar will not be suffered to commit robberies, or aggressions, or any disturbances on this side. If any defaulter of either State, who has embezzled the revenue, take refuge in the territory of the other, each party engages to surrender him, and no person shall obstruct the passage of the stream which issues out of the Khaibar defile, and supplies the fort ol Fatehgarh with water according to ancient usage. Article 3. As, agreeably to the treaty estabhshed between the British Government and the Maharaja, no one can cross from the left to the right bank .of the Sutlej without a passport from the Maharaja, the same rule shall be observed regarding the passage of the Indus, whose waters join the Sutlej, and no one shall be allowed to cross the Indus without the Maharaja's permission. :
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Article 4. Regarding Shikarpur and the territory of Sind, on the right bank of the Indus, the Shah will agree to abide by whatever may be settled as right
and proper, in conformity with the happy relations of friendship subsisting between the British Government and the Maharaja through Captain Wade. Article 5. When the Shah shall have established his authority in Kabul and Kandahar, he will annually send the Maharaja the following articles, viz. 55 highbred horses of approved colour, and pleasant paces; 11 Persian scimetars; 7 Persian poniards; 25 good mules: fruits of various kinds, both dry and fresh; and Sardas or Musk melons, of a sweet and delicate flavour (to be sent throughout the year by the way of the Kabul river to Peshawar) grapes, pomegranates, apples, quinces, almonds, raisins, pistahs or chestnuts, an abundant supply of each; as well as pieces of satin of every colour; chogas of fur; kimkhabs wrought with gold and silver; and Persian carpets, altogether to the number all these articles the Shah will continue of 101 pieces, to send every year to the Maharaja. Article 6. Each party shall address the other on
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desirous of trading to Lahore, Amritsar, or any other parts of the Maharaja's possessions, shall not be stop-
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places are considered to be the property, and to form the estate, of the Maharaja the Shah neither has nor will have any concern with them; they belong to the Maharaja and his posterity from generation to generation. Article 2. The people of the country on the other side of Khaibar will not be suffered to commit robberies, or aggressions, or any disturbances on this side. If any defaulter of either State, who has embezzled the revenue, take refuge in the territory of the other, each party engages to surrender him, and no person shall obstruct the passage of the stream which issues out of the Khaibar defile, and supplies the fort ol Fatehgarh with water according to ancient usage. Article 3. As, agreeably to the treaty estabhshed between the British Government and the Maharaja, no one can cross from the left to the right bank .of the Sutlej without a passport from the Maharaja, the same rule shall be observed regarding the passage of the Indus, whose waters join the Sutlej, and no one shall be allowed to cross the Indus without the Maharaja's permission. :
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Article 4. Regarding Shikarpur and the territory of Sind, on the right bank of the Indus, the Shah will agree to abide by whatever may be settled as right
and proper, in conformity with the happy relations of friendship subsisting between the British Government and the Maharaja through Captain Wade. Article 5. When the Shah shall have established his authority in Kabul and Kandahar, he will annually send the Maharaja the following articles, viz. 55 highbred horses of approved colour, and pleasant paces; 11 Persian scimetars; 7 Persian poniards; 25 good mules: fruits of various kinds, both dry and fresh; and Sardas or Musk melons, of a sweet and delicate flavour (to be sent throughout the year by the way of the Kabul river to Peshawar) grapes, pomegranates, apples, quinces, almonds, raisins, pistahs or chestnuts, an abundant supply of each; as well as pieces of satin of every colour; chogas of fur; kimkhabs wrought with gold and silver; and Persian carpets, altogether to the number all these articles the Shah will continue of 101 pieces, to send every year to the Maharaja. Article 6. Each party shall address the other on
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— — terms of equality. Article — Merchants of Afghanistan who may be 7.
desirous of trading to Lahore, Amritsar, or any other parts of the Maharaja's possessions, shall not be stop-
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