TREATY WITH GULAB SINGH APP XXXVI 377 I APPENDIX XXXVI TREATY WITH GULAB SINGH OF 1846 Treaty between the British Government and Maharaja Gulah Singh, concluded at Annritsar, on 16th March 1846. Treaty between the British Government on the one part, and Maharaja Gulab Singh of Jammu on the other, concluded, on the part of the British Government, by Frederick Currie, Esq., and Brevet-Major Henry Montgomery Lawrence, acting under the orders of the Right Honourable Sir Henry Hardinge, G.C.B., one of Her Britannic Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, Governor-General, appointed by the Honourable Company to direct and control all their affairs in the East Indies, and by Maharaja Gulab Singh in person. — Article 1. The British Government transfers and makes over, for ever, in independent possession, to Maharaja Gulab Singh, and the heirs male of his body, all the hilly or mountainous country, with its dependencies, situated to the eastward of the river Indus, and westward of the river Ravi, including Chamba and excluding Lahul, being part of the territory ceded to the British Government by the Lahore State, according to the provisions of Article 4 of the treaty of Lahore, dated 9th March 1846. — Article 2. The eastern boundary of the tract transferred by the foregoing article to Maharaja Gulab Singh shall be laid down by commissioners appointed by the British Government and Maharaja Gulab Singh respectively, for that purpose, and shall be defined in a separate engagement, after survey. Article 3. In consideration of the transfer made to him and his heirs by the provisions of the foregoing articles, Maharaja Gulab Singh will pay to the British Government the sum of seventy-five lacs of rupees (Nanakshahi) fifty lacs to be paid on ratification of this treaty, and twenty-five lacs on or before the 1st of October of the current year, a.d. 1846. — , . Article 4. —The limits of the. territories of Maha- Gulab Singh shall not be at any time changed without the concurrence of the British Government. Article 5. Maharaja Gulab Singh will refer to the raja — arbitration of the British Government any disputes or questions that may arise between himself and the Gov-