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has subsisted between the Honourable English 

 East India Compaiy and his highness's an- 

 cestors, the kings of Acheen, and in order to 

 perpetuate and improve their friendship, to the 

 advantage and prosperity of their mutual states 

 and subjects. It is hereby agreed and deter- 

 mined. 



Article I. — There shall be a perpetual peace, 

 friendship and defensive alliance, between the 

 states, dominions, and SLibjects of the high 

 contracting parties, neither of whom shall give 

 any aid or assistance to the enemies of the 

 other. 



Article II. — At the request of his highness, 

 the British government engages to require and 

 to use its influence to effect the removal of Syff'ul 

 Allum from his highness's territories, and the 

 British government further engage to prohibit 

 him or any of his family, as far as the}^ may be 

 subject to their authority, from doing or com- 

 mitting in future any act or acts, tending to 

 prevent or impede the full re-establishment of 

 his highness's authority. His highness the king 

 engaging himself to place at the disposal of the 

 supreme government of British India, such pen- 

 sion or annuity, as it ma}'^, in its wisdom, deem 

 meet to recommend for the said Syfful Allum, 

 on the condition of his retiring to Penang, and 

 engaging to relinquish all claims to the sove- 



