ARTICLES OF THE TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY AND THE DEB RAJA OF BHUTAN-1774

 

Articles of the treaty of peace BETWEEN THE Honourable east India  

 Company and THE DEB Raja of Bhutan-1774

1st. That the Honorable Company, wholly from consideration for the distress to which the Bhootans represented themselves to be reduced, and from the desire of living in peace with their neighbors, will relinquish all the lands which belonged to the Deb Rajah before the commencement of the war with the Rajah of Cooch Behar, namely, to the eastward, the lands of  Chitchacotta 'and Pangola-haut, and to the westward, the land of Kyruntee, Marragaut, and Luckypoor.

2nd. That for the possession of the Chitchacotta Province, the Deb Rajah shall pay an annual tribute of five Tangun horses to the Honorable Company, which was the acknowledgment paid to the Behar Raja.

3rd. That the Deb Rajah shall deliver up Dhujinder Narain, Rajah of Cooch Behar, together with his brother the Dewan Deo, who is confined with him.

4th. That the Bhootans, being merchants, shall have the same privilege to trade as formerly, without the payment of duties, and their caravan shall be allowed to go to Rungpoor annually.

5th. That the Deb Raja shall never cause incursion to be made into the county, nor in any respect whatever molest the ryots, that have come under the Honorable Company's subjection.

6th. That if any ryot or inhabitant whatever shall desert from the Honorable Company's territories, the Deb Rajah shall cause him to be delivered up immediately upon application being made for him.

7th. That in case the Bhootans, or any one under the government the Deb Rajah, shall have any demands upon, or disputes with, any inhabitant of these or any part of the Company’s territories, they shall prosecute them only by an application to the Magistrate, who shall reside here for the administration of justice.

8th. That whatever the Sunyasies are considered by the English an enemy, the Deb Rajah shall not allow any body of them to take shelter in any part of the districts now given up, nor permit them to enter the Honorable Company's territories, or through any part of his, and if the Bhootans shall not of themselves be able to drive them out, they shall give information to the Resident, on the part of the English, in Cooch Behar, and they shall not consider the English troops pursuing the Sunyasies into those districts, any breach of this Treaty.

9th. That in case the Honorable Company shall have occasion for cutting timber from any part of the woods under the Hills, they shall do it duty free, and the people they send shall be protected.

10th. That there shall be a mutual release of prisoners. This Treaty to be signed by the Honorable President and Council of BengaI, and the Honorable Company's seal to be affixed on the one part, and to be signed and sealed by the Deb Rajah on the other part.

 

Signed and ratified at Fort William, the 25tb April 1774.

 

(Signed)          Warren Hastings.

 

 

SEAL
Signed             William Aldensey

 

Signed             P.M. Dancres

 

Signed             J. Laurell

 

Signed             Henry Goodwin

 

Signed             J. Graham

 

Signed             George Vansittart

 

Signed             J.P. Auriol Assistant Secretary

 

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