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may remove any of the civil or military fervants of the company, or 

 vacate any appointment made by the diredlors. 



' And forafmiich as to purfue fchemes of conqueft and extenfion of 

 ' dominion in India are meafures repugnant to the wifh, the honour, 

 * and pohcy, of this nation,' the governor-general is prohibited from 

 making war without an exprefs order from the court of directors, or 

 from the fecret committee by authority of the board of commiflioners, 

 unkfs hoflilities are committed, or preparations are made for hoflilities, 

 againft the Britifh nation in India, or againft any of the princes depend- 

 ent on, or allied with, the company. And the governors of Fort S'. 

 George and Bombay are not to proceed to hoflilities without orders 

 from the governor-general, or from home, ' except in cafes of fudden 

 ' emergency, or imminent danger.' — No fervant of the company in 

 India is permitted on any pretence whatever to receive any prefent. — 

 Britifh fubjefts are amenable to courts of juilice, both in India and 

 Great Britain, for all offences committed in the territories of the native 

 princes. 



The company have a right, in the event of being deprived of their 

 exclufive privileges at the expiration of the term now granted, to con- 

 tinue a corporation, and trade upon their joint flock in common with 

 other Britifli fubjeits. 



In cafe of any territory, feparate from the continent of China, and 

 totally detached from the jurifdidlion of that empire, being obtained 

 from the Chinefe government, and fettled by the company, it fhall be 

 lawful for all Britifh fubjeds, under regulations approved by the board 

 of commiflioners, to export Britifh and Irifli goods in the company's fhips 

 at a moderate rate of freight, conligned to the company's fupercargoes 

 or refidents at fuch fettlement, fuch exporters being by no means per- 

 mitted to have any intercourfe with the continent of China, or to inter- 

 fere in any manner with the company's affairs, and being obliged to 

 pay in the proceeds of their fales to the company's treafury, and receive 

 bills of exchange payable in Great Britain. 



VelTels engaged in the fouthern whale fifhery, and licenced agreeable 

 to former ads, have the liberty of paffing Cape Horn, and failing to the 

 northward of the equator, and as far wefl as 180° of longitude from 

 London. 



The diredlors of the Eafl-India company are required to lay before 

 the board of commiflioners a fet of regulations proper to be obferved 

 by the veffels engaged in the fur trade on the north-wefl: coafl of Ame- 

 rica, which may have occaflon to fail to Japan, Korea, or Canton, to 

 difpofe of their cargoes, and to return to the coafl; of America ; which, 

 when fandioned by the board, fhall be binding on the owners and com- 

 manders of veffels in that trade, who, on conforming to the regulations, 

 are entitled to licences for failing into the company's limits, where they 



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