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foreigners, they shall receive corporal punishment, and their 

 goods be confiscated in favour of His Imperial Majesty. 



10th. — In case any Hollander is guilty of bad conduct 

 and takes refuge in His Imperial Majesty's dominions, His 

 Imperial Majesty or his subjects shall be bound according 

 to article 13 to deliver them up into our hands. His Imperial 

 Majesty's subjects fleeing to our side under similar circum- 

 stances to be delivered up to His Majesty. This also to refer 

 to fugitive slaves. 



11th. — His Imperial Majesty shall promise, according to 

 article 16 of the contract, to prohibit his subjects from entering 

 into correspondence, either secretly or publicly, or from 

 making any contracts with our enemies for merchandise or 

 anything, but on the contrary to consider them as enemies. 

 Should they in spite of this sell any merchandise to a foreign 

 nation, they shall receive corporal punishment as an example 

 to others ; but if found disposing of the cinnamon shall incur 

 the penalty of death. 



12th. — That by article 17 of the Batticaloa contract 

 His Majesty shall agree not to allow Roman Catholic monks, 

 priests, and other ecclesiastics to domicile themselves in his 

 dominions, they being the cause of disturbances and discord 

 wherever they go, but to extirpate them, as their principal 

 object is to set the subjects against the King, and by these 

 means get hold of the lands. 



13th. — In the event of any of the Company's vessels be- 

 coming wrecked or stranded in His Imperial Majesty's ports 

 through stress of weather or any other cause, His Imperial 

 Majesty or his subjects shall have no further claim on the 

 stranded vessel and recovered goods than for salvage, in the 

 same way as is practised by the Company. 



The object of this draft was to make these things intel- 

 ligible to His Imperial Majesty in default of his presence or 

 that of his Ambassadors here, and to sound him as to the way 

 he is inclined to treat with the Company, and to manage so 

 that we may finally arrive at the wished for understanding 

 and an unalterable treaty of peace and friendship. 



