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their vessels and depart with provisions, necessaries, and 

 trifles, without hindrance. 



6th. — The Company shall be allowed to gather cinnamon 

 according to article 3, not only in the Corles, but His Impe- 

 rial Majesty shall grant them free permission to gather it 

 anywhere that it may be found, and that no other nation 

 shall be allowed to acquire any, nor anyone but the Company 

 be allowed to export it. In consideration of this monopoly 

 they engage to send a considerable royal present yearly to 

 His Imperial Majesty. 



7th.— His Imperial Majesty shall in conformity with 

 article 12 of the aforesaid contract made at Batticaloa, grant to 

 our factors and traders full liberty to travel unmolested in his 

 lands, to deal and negotiate with the inhabitants, and having 

 brought any merchandise into the interior, the inhabitants 

 shall be obliged to procure and provide our traders, at their 

 own expense, with beasts of burden to transport to the shore, 

 towns, or forts, any goods bought by our traders ; it shall also 

 be declared that the Hollanders shall be under our own 

 jurisdiction, even as the subjects of Ceilon shall remain 

 under that of His Imperial Majesty. 



8th. — According to article 13, none shall be allowed to 

 dispose of any goods contracted for by us to anyone else 

 without having first satisfied our demands: any one trans- 

 gressing to be apprehended and imprisoned. We should thus 

 get our own. 



We shall also be allowed to act in the same way if any one 

 becomes indebted to us to any large amount ; but we shall in 

 either case be bound to inform His Imperial Majesty or his 

 Governors of it. 



9th. — Article 14 of the Batticaloa contract prohibits any one 

 of whatever degree, caste, or condition from minting or 

 making any money other than that allowed by His Imperial 

 Majesty or the Hollanders ; still less from coining false 

 money. 



Should any one be detected in contravening these articles, 

 be they Hollanders, His Imperial Majesty's subjects, or 



