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The present Additional Article 

 shall liuve the same force and 

 effect as if it were inserted word 

 for word in the treaty signed this 

 day, and shall be ratified, and the 

 ratifications exchanged at the 

 same time. 



(No. S.)— France. 

 Convention between Great Britain 



and Francs, signed at London Jth 



of March, 1SL5. 



The trade in salt and opium 

 throughout the British sovereign- 

 ty in India having been subjected 

 to certain regulations and re- 

 strictions which, unless due pro- 

 vision be made, might occasion 

 differences between the subjects 

 and agents of his Britannic Ma- 

 jesty and those of His Most Chris- 

 tian Majesty; tlieir said Majesties 

 liave thought proper to conclude 

 a Special Convention for the pur- 

 pose of preventing such differ- 

 ences, and removing every cause 

 of dispute between their respec- 

 tive subjects in that part of tiie 

 world, and in this view have 

 named for their respective Pleni- 

 potentiaries, viz.: his Majesty the 

 King of the United Kingdom of 

 Great Britain and Ireland, Robert 

 Earl of Buckinghamshire, &c. ; 

 and his Majesty the King of 

 France and Navarre, the Sieur 

 Claude Louis deLa Chartre, &c.: 

 who, after having communicated 

 to each otlier their respective full 

 powers, found in good and due 

 form, have agreed upon the fol- 

 lowing articles : 



Art. 1. His Most Christian 

 Majesty engages to faim to the 

 British Government in India, the 

 exclusive right to purchase at a 

 fair and equitable price, to be re- 

 gulated by that which the said 



Government shall have paid for 

 salt in the districts in the vicinity 

 of the French possessions on the 

 coast of Coromandel and Orixa 

 respectively, the salt that may be 

 manufactured in the said posses- 

 sions, subject however to a re- 

 servation of the quantity that the 

 agents of his Most Christian Ma-- 

 jesty shall deem requisite for the 

 domestic use and consumption of 

 the inhabitants thereof; and upon 

 the condition, that the British 

 Government shall deliver in Ben- 

 gal, to the agents of his Most 

 Christian Majesty, the quantity 

 of salt that may be judged neces- 

 sary for the consumption of the 

 inhabitants of Chandernagore ; 

 reference being had to the popu- 

 lation of the said settlement: 

 such delivery to be made at the 

 price which the British Govern- 

 ment shall have paid for the said 

 article. 



Art. 2. In order to ascertain 

 the prices as aforesaid, the official 

 accounts of the charges incurred 

 by the British Government, for 

 the salt manufactured in the dis- 

 tricts in the vicinity of the French 

 settlements on the coasts of Co- 

 romandel and Orixa respectively, 

 sliall be open to the inspection of 

 a Commissioner to be a; pointed 

 for that purpose by the agents of 

 His Most Christian Majesty in 

 India ; and the price to be paid 

 by the British Government shall 

 be settled according to an aveiage 

 to be taken eveiy three years, of 

 the charges as aforesaid, ascer- 

 tained by the said official accounts, 

 commencing with the three years 

 preceding the date of the present 

 Convention. 



The price of salt at Chanderna- 

 gore to be determined, in the 



same 



