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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). 



[Vol. XVI. 



carried on between the two powers and to restore peace and friendly 

 relations between them. 



With a view to the permanent establishment of the new Treaty of 

 peace and to securing the inviolability of friendly relations, the 

 Articles hereunder detailed were proposed with the mutual consent 

 of the two parties, and adopted by the authorized officers of the two 

 parties, to wit, by His Excellency the Governor and Director Heer 

 Iman William Falck and by the honourable Judicial functionaries 

 of the Island of Ceylon, in the honoured name of the illustrious 

 and powerful States-General of the Free United Provinces, on behalf 

 of the illustrious and powerful Company, and by the very honourable 

 Members of the Chief Council of Ministers of the Kandyan Court, 

 specially deputed for the purpose, on behalf of His Imperial Majesty, 

 the powerful and illustrious Emperor of Lanka, to wit, their Worthies 

 Migastenne Vijayaratna Wasala Mudiyanse, Disava of Kiri Oruwe 

 Bogambara Kuruwa, the Maha Madige, Tawat [sic] kada, Nuwara- 

 kalaviya, and Matale ; Pilimatalauwe Vijayasundara Rajapaksha 

 Pandita Mudiyanse, Disava of Sabaragamuwa, including Gilimale r 

 Bambarabotuwa, Patarata, Bulatgama, Vannaku Nilame of the Royal 

 Treasury, Haluwadana Nilame and Disava of the Three Korales ; 

 Angammana Divakara Rajapaksha Wasala Mudiyanse, Disava of 

 Dolosbage and Uda Palata ; Miwature Vijayakon Maha Mudiyanse, 

 Maha Lekama ; and Moragammane Vijayakon Mudiyanse, who holds 

 the^Four Korales, Kuruwa, and Madige, and the office of Nanayakkara 

 L£kam Muhandiram : — 



First Article. 



In future, friendly relations shall be inviolably maintained between 

 these two parties, to wit, His Imperial Majesty the Chief Sovereign 

 of Lanka, the leading honourable Members of the Council of 

 Ministers and subjects [of the Kandyan Court] on the one part ; and 

 the great, powerful, and illustrious States-General of the Free United 

 Provinces of Holland, the great and powerful Company of Hollanders 

 and their subjects on the other part. 



Second Article. 



The Chief Sovereign and Supreme Lord and the leading honour- 

 able Members of the Chief Council of Ministers of the Kandyan 

 Court recognize and acknowledge the illustrious and very powerful 

 States -General of the United Provinces of Holland and the powerful 

 Company of Hollanders to be the lawful independent and sole lords 

 paramount of the several districts of this Island of Lanka, which had 

 been held by the Company before the war which is now drawing to a 

 close, to wit, Yapapattanama, the districts thereto belonging, Hetti- 

 kulappattu, Mannarama, and the places appertaining thereto ; the 

 country from that place and Kalpitiya, with the places thereto belong- 

 ing ; Kolamba Disava, Galu Korale, Matara Disava, Puliyanduva, 

 Trikunamale, with the places thereto hitherto appertaining. Moreover, 



