360 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



same manner, by the charges in- 

 cutied by the British Govern- 

 ment for the stilt manufactured in 

 tlie districts nearest to the said 

 settlement. 



Art. 3. It is understood that 

 the salt-works in the possessions 

 belonging- to His Most Christian 

 Majesty sliall be and remain 

 under the direction and adminis- 

 tration of the agents of his said 

 Majesty. 



Art. 4. With a view to the 

 effectual attainment of the objects 

 in the contemplation of the liigh 

 contracting parties, his Most 

 Christian Majesty engages to es- 

 tablish in liis possessions on the 

 coast of Coromandel and Orixa, 

 and at Chandernagore in Bengal, 

 neaily the same price for salt, as 

 that at which it shall be sold l)y 

 the British Government in the 

 vicinity of each of the said pos- 

 sessions. 



Art. 5. In consideration of the 

 stipulations expressed in the pre- 

 ceding Articles, his Britannic Ma- 

 jesty engages that the sum of 

 four lacs of sicca rupees shall be 

 paid annually to the agents of his 

 Most Christian Majesty duly au- 

 tiiorized, by equal quarterly in- 

 stalments ; such instalments to be 

 paid at Calcutta or at Madras, ten 

 days after the bills that may be 

 drawn for the same by the said 

 agents shall have been presented 

 to the Government of either of 

 those Presidencies ; it being agreed 

 that the rent above stipulated shall 

 conmience from the 1st of Oc- 

 tober 1814. 



Art. 6. With regard to the 

 trade in opium, it is agreed be- 

 tween the High Contracting 

 Parties, that at each of the peri- 

 odical sales of that article, there 



shall be reserved for the Frencli 

 Government, and deliveied, upon 

 requisition duly made by the 

 agents of liis Most Christian Ma- 

 jesty, or by the persons duly ap- 

 pointed by them, the number of 

 chests so aj)plied foi', provided 

 that such supply shall not exceed 

 three hundred chests in each year j 

 and the price to be paid for the 

 same shall be determined by the 

 average rate at which opium shall 

 have been sold at every such pe- 

 riodical sale. It being un<lerstood 

 that if the cjuantity of opium ap- 

 plied for at any one time, shall 

 not be taken on account of the 

 French Government by the agents 

 of his Most Christian Majesty, 

 within the tisuul period of de- 

 livery, the quantity so apjdied 

 for shall nevertheless be consider- 

 ed as so mucii in reduction of the 

 three hundied chests herein be- 

 fore mentioned. 



The requisitions of opium as 

 aforesaid are to be addiessed to 

 the (Governor Geneial at Calcutta, 

 within thirty days after notice of 

 the intended sale shall have been 

 published in the Calcutta Gazette. 



Art. 7- I'l the e\'ent of any re- 

 striction being imposed upon the 

 exportation of sa'tpetre, the sub- 

 jects of his Most Christian Ma- 

 jesty shall nevertheless be allowed 

 to export that article to the ex- 

 tent of 18,000 maunds. 



Art. 8. His Most Christian 

 Majesty, with a view of preserv- 

 ing the harmony subsisting be- 

 tween the two nations, having 

 engaged, by the twelfth article of 

 the treaty concluded at Paris on 

 the 30th of May 1814, not to 

 erect any fortifications in the es- 

 tablishments to be restored to 

 him by the said treaty, and to 



