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HISTORY OF THE SIKHS
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Article 3. The Maharaja cedes to the Honourable Company, in perpetual sovereignty, all his forts, territories, and rights, in the Doab, or country, hill and plain, situate between the rivers Beas and Sutlej. Article 4. The British Government having demanded from the Lahore State, as indemnification for
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the expenses of the war, in addition to the cession of territory described in Article 3, payment of one and a half crores of rupees; and the Lahore Government being unable to pay the whole of this sum at this time, or to give security satisfactory to the British Government for its eventual payment; the Maharaja cedes to the Honourable Company, in perpetual sovereignty, as equivalent for one crore of rupees, all his forts, territories, rights, and interests, in the hill countries which are situate between thte rivers Beas and Indus, including the provinces of Kashmir and Hazara.
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Article 5. The Maharaja will pay to the British Government the sum of fifty lacs of rupees, on or be-
fore the ratification of this treaty.
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Article 6. The Maharaja engages to disband the mutinous troops of the Lahore army, taking from them their arms; and his Highness agrees to reorganize the regular, or Ain, regiments of infantry, upon the system, and according to the regulations as to pay and allowances, observed in the time of the late Maharaja Ranjit Singh. The Maharaja further engages to pay up all arrears to the soldiers that are discharged under the provisions of this article.
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Article 7. The regular army of the Lahore State shall henceforth be limited to 25 battalions of infantry, consisting of 800 bayonets each, with 12,000 cavalry this number at no time to be exceeded without the concurrence of the British Government, Should it be necessary at any time, for any special cause, that this force should be increased, the cause shall be fully ex:
plained to the British Government; and, when the special necessity shall have passed, the regular troops shall be again reduced to the standard specified in the former clause of this article. Article 8.—The Maharaja will surrender to the British Government all the guns, thirty-six in number^ which have been pointed against the British troops, and which, having been placed on the right bank of the river Sutlej, were not captured at the battle of Sobraon. Article 9.—The control of the rivers Beas and .
372
aPP.
XXXIV
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Article 3. The Maharaja cedes to the Honourable Company, in perpetual sovereignty, all his forts, territories, and rights, in the Doab, or country, hill and plain, situate between the rivers Beas and Sutlej. Article 4. The British Government having demanded from the Lahore State, as indemnification for
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the expenses of the war, in addition to the cession of territory described in Article 3, payment of one and a half crores of rupees; and the Lahore Government being unable to pay the whole of this sum at this time, or to give security satisfactory to the British Government for its eventual payment; the Maharaja cedes to the Honourable Company, in perpetual sovereignty, as equivalent for one crore of rupees, all his forts, territories, rights, and interests, in the hill countries which are situate between thte rivers Beas and Indus, including the provinces of Kashmir and Hazara.
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Article 5. The Maharaja will pay to the British Government the sum of fifty lacs of rupees, on or be-
fore the ratification of this treaty.
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Article 6. The Maharaja engages to disband the mutinous troops of the Lahore army, taking from them their arms; and his Highness agrees to reorganize the regular, or Ain, regiments of infantry, upon the system, and according to the regulations as to pay and allowances, observed in the time of the late Maharaja Ranjit Singh. The Maharaja further engages to pay up all arrears to the soldiers that are discharged under the provisions of this article.
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Article 7. The regular army of the Lahore State shall henceforth be limited to 25 battalions of infantry, consisting of 800 bayonets each, with 12,000 cavalry this number at no time to be exceeded without the concurrence of the British Government, Should it be necessary at any time, for any special cause, that this force should be increased, the cause shall be fully ex:
plained to the British Government; and, when the special necessity shall have passed, the regular troops shall be again reduced to the standard specified in the former clause of this article. Article 8.—The Maharaja will surrender to the British Government all the guns, thirty-six in number^ which have been pointed against the British troops, and which, having been placed on the right bank of the river Sutlej, were not captured at the battle of Sobraon. Article 9.—The control of the rivers Beas and .
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