STATE PAPERS. 



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j)ower to grant you a recess at this 

 season of the year, when your pre- 

 sence is so essentiuUy necessary 

 upon your respeCtiye properties. — 

 Mr. speaker and gentlemen ot the 

 assembly, — I am much concerned 

 that you have not given me an op- 

 portunity of thanking you for the 

 supplies required at this eventful 

 period in aid of the mother-country, 

 for your own defence; but I trust 

 that, upon more mature consider- 

 ation, you will feel the propriety 

 of supporting government in the 

 most ettectual manner at your next 

 meeting, and thereby restore to 

 yoursehes its fullest contidence in 

 vour loyalty and patriotism. — Gen- 

 tlemen of the council, ?vlr speaker 

 and gentlemen of the assembly, — I 

 have to recommend to you, in the 

 most particular manner, on your 

 return to your several parishes, the 

 pursuit of such provident measures 

 as may best promote the security 



and tranquillity of the island 1 



do therefore now, in his majesty's 

 name, prorogue this general assem- 

 bly to the 24tii January next ; and 

 it is hereby prorogued accordingly. 



Treafij of Peace hetzcecn fhs Uoiioii- 

 ruhlc the East l/uliu Conipunij ttiid 

 its AU'h:^ on the one Ftirt, and 

 Roj^o^ce lihounda on the oilier ; 

 iettlid h)) Major Gen. fVclle.slei/ 

 on the Part of the Conipani/ and 

 its ylllics, and hi/ Jeyrciinih Rao 

 Ranchiindcr on flic Part of Se/ndi 

 Sahib Snbah Ra<rogec Bhot/nsla, 

 zcho have each fidl /iuthoritjj from 

 their respective Pon-em : dated in 

 the Camp at Dcogaun, December 

 \7th, 180'i. 



I. That there shall be perpetual 

 peace and frieudship bctw«eu the 



East India company and Senah Sa- 

 heb Siibah Ragogee Bhounsla, rajah 

 of Berar. II. Senah Saheb Subah 

 Hagogee Bhounsla cedes to the 

 couipany in perpetual sovereignty, 

 the province of Cuttack, including 

 the port and district of Balasore. — 



III. He likewise cedes to the com- 

 pany and their allies, in perpetnal 

 sovereignty, all the territories of 

 which he has collected the revenues 

 jointly with the sonbah of the De- 

 kan, and those of which he may 

 have possession, which are to the 

 westward of the river Wufda. 



IV. It is agreed that th« frontier of 

 Sanah Saheb Subah Ragogee Bhoun- 

 sla towards the territories of his 

 highness the soubah of the Dekan, 

 shall be formed to the west by the 

 river Wurda, from its issue from 

 the Injardf hills to its junction with 

 the river Godavery. — V. The hills 

 on Avhich the forts of Nernallah and 

 Gawalghur stand, are to remain in 

 possession of Ragogee Bhounsla ; 

 and all places to the southward of 

 those hills, and to the west of the 

 ■westward of the river Wurda, to 

 be given up to the British govern- 

 ment.— ^V I. Districts amounting to 

 four lacks of rupees per annum, con- 

 tiguous to, and to the southward of 

 the above-mentioned forts, are to 

 be given up to the rajah, and to be 

 given up at the same time as the 

 forts.- — VII. Senah Saheb Subah 

 Ragogee Bhounsla, on the part of 

 himself, his heirs and successors, 

 entirely renounces all claims of every 

 description on the territories of the 

 British government ceded as above, 

 and upon all the territories of the 

 soubah of the Dckan.— VIII. The 

 East India company engages to me- 

 diate and arbitrate any disputes that 

 now exist, or may hereafter exist, 

 between the company's allies, Seum- 



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