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agent of the Honourable Company came to meet the High Dignitory
of His Highness the Maharaja of the Khalsas; have added a few
more Clauses to the original text, which make eighteen clauses, in
the spirit of accord and friendship have accepted and made valid
on behalf of the Honourable East India Company; and these clauses
shall not seperated, and are divisable.
CLAUSE NUMBER ONE :
That area which lies this side of the river Indus and the other
side of the Indus; and which is in the possession of the Khalsa
Sirkar the province of Kashmire, together with its environs and bo-
undries east, west, north and south of Attock; Chuch Hazara Kahnabul
Want etc which are its dependencies; Peshawar with Yusufzai etc,
Khatak, Hashnagar, Michni, Kohat, Hungo and all areas belonging
to Phshawar region upto the Khyber, and Bunnu Wazir and Tonk,
and Krank, and Killa Bagh and Khushal Ghur etc as its dependencies;
together with Dera Ismail Khan with its dependencies, Dera
Ghazi Khah and Kot Muthan and Omar Kot etc together with all
its dependencies and Sungar, Arwat Mund, Dajal and Hajipore, and
all the three Kachi and Munkeera with all its environments, and
the province of Multan together with all its surroundings, pass out
of the hands of the Saduzai government; and upon these territories
the Saduzais Government shall have no claim generation after
generation; these areas no longer belong to them and shall never
belong to them.
Secodly that the above mentioned king will not permit any
one to emmit any robbery on this side of the Khyber pass; or
permit any disturbance of peace. If the officers of the goevrnments
intentionally disregard their duties; or might absent themselves
from duty; they shall be returned from either side; and that water
which comes for the use of Killa Fatehkadah etc, shall we allowed
to remain, and shall not stopped.
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