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INDIAN WAR. 



port ami export duty of 5 per cent. </-/ mlorem, 

 and i ) indirect dues or payments of any kind 

 for ten years; after which pi-r'n.il it i-; to bo 

 optional with the r.imnese (io\i-niii;.-nt to in- 

 I0e tlio duty not exceeding 10 



Qt or tailing below 8 per cent., giving 

 three month-,' notice of any such increase or 

 dcciva-e. The IJritish Government i> privileged 



.lili-.li a resident or political agent in liur- 



lerritory, with full ami linal jurisdiction 

 in all civil suits between registered British sub- 

 jects at the- capital; ci\il cases between Bur- 



-nhjeets and registered British subjects 

 arc to In 1 heard and finally decided !>y a mixed 

 court, composed of the Britisli political agent 

 and a suitahlo B-.irmcse officer of high rank. 

 The I/in ineso Government reserves to itself the 

 right of c-ta' lis'iiing aresident or political agent 

 in Urifisli territory, whenever it may choose to 

 do so. The liritish Government is further al- 

 1 the right of appointing British officials 



ido at customs duty stations in Burmese 

 territory, to watch and inquire into cases affect- 

 ing trade in its relation to customs duty, the 

 Burmese- Government to have the like right in 

 British BuniKih. There is to be free trade in 

 the import and export of bullion between the 

 iwn countries. The Burmese Government is 

 to be allowed permission to purchase arms, 

 ammunition, and war material in British terri- 

 tory, subject only to the consent and approval 

 in each case of the chief commissioner of British 

 Bunnah and agent to the Governor-General. 

 There is to be a mutual extradition of the sub- 

 jects of the two Governments charged with 

 having committed murder, robbert, or theft 

 in their own country, and found in the ter- 

 ritory of the other Government, provided that 

 the charge shall have been investigated by the 

 proper officers of the Government demanding 

 its subject, in the presence of the political 

 airent of the other Government, and provided 

 also that such political agent shall consider that 

 sufficient cause exists under the law procedure 

 of his country to justify the demand and place 

 the accused on trial. Subjects of either country 

 found in their own country charged with having 

 committed murder, robbery, or theft in the other 

 country, are, on apprehension, to be tried and 

 punished in accordance with the law and cus- 

 tom of the country in wnich such persons are 

 so found. This treaty is to be deemed subsidi- 

 , ary only, and as in no way affecting the provi- 

 sions of the treaty of 1862. 



The extension of the East India Railway, 

 from Allahabad to Jubbulpoor, was opened on 

 the 2d of May, and thus the capitals of Eastern 

 and Western India are in effect brought nearer 

 to each other by nearly 200 miles. The only gap 

 that now remains in the railway communication 

 between Bombay and Calcutta is between 

 Klmndwah and Jubbulpoor, and every exertion 

 is being made by the engineers of the Great In- 

 dian Peninsula Railway speedily to complete thi> 

 section. It was expected that in May, 1868, 

 a junction would be effected with the East 



India Railway at Jubbnlpoor, with the excep- 

 tion nf perhaps a slight break at Sukkur, which 

 would In- temporarily supplied \,\ s \ tramway. 



Th.- Government of India, in IHfiT. published 

 an official report of the Ori-.-a famine." 

 report was prepared by a committee appointed 

 on I '< cember 1, 1806, by the Governor-tie' 

 in compliance with an order from Lord Cran- 

 Imurne, and con-Ming of Mr. Justice Campbell, 

 Colonel W. Morton, and Mr. K. Dumpier. 

 The committee, which spent about a month on 

 the spots in which the famine raged with the- 

 greatest violence, completed their report in 

 April. The report tries to explain the conduct 

 of the Government of Bengal, and to defend its 

 inaction. The general conclusion of the report is, 

 that the famine surpassed in severity any thing 

 known to have occurred in India within the 

 present century. It gives no estimates of the 

 deaths, which by Mr. Ravenshaw, the commis- 

 sioner of the province, are put at 600,000 souls, 

 or one-fourth of the entire population of the 

 province. 



INDIAN WAR. The attention of the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States has been drawn, 

 in an unusual degree, to its relations with the 

 Indian tribes on the Western frontier during the 

 past year, on account of numerous depredations 

 which have been committed by them upon the 

 white settlers, and various skirmishes which 

 have taken place between them and the troops 

 stationed at the military outposts for the pro- 

 tection of settlers and emigrants. The hostili- 

 ties have been exhibited chiefly on the line of 

 the Union Pacific Railroad in the States of Ne- 

 braska and Kansas, and the Territory of Colo- 

 rado, and along what is known as the Powder 

 River route to Montana. 



The general causes of hostile outbreaks on 

 the part of the Indians may be traceel to the 

 intrusion of settlers upon their reservations, 

 the laying out of lines of travel through their 

 hunting districts, and a general inefficiency in 

 carrying out treaty stipulations on the part of 

 agents of the United States. The management 

 of Indian affairs is intrusted by the Govern- 

 ment to the Department of the Interior. This 

 department delegates its authority to a Corn- 

 mi ioner of Indian Affairs, to superintendents, 

 special commissioners, and agents. It is the 

 duty of Indian agents to reside among the sev- 

 eral tribes upon the lands reserved for their 

 use, to pay annuities which have been granted 

 from time to time, and to protect them in the 

 rights guaranteed by treaty. 



Owing partly to the corruption and inef- 

 ficiency of agents and superintendents, and 

 partly to the difficulty of preserving their lands 

 from the intrusion of pioneers in search of de- 

 posits of the precious metals, a feeling of dis- 

 trust and dissatisfaction has long prevailed among 

 many of the tribes to the east of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains ; and a state of destitution, on account of 

 the diminution of game in that region, has tended 



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