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the Supreme Lord and the very honourable Principal Officers of the 

 Kandyan Court relinquish the sovereignty and claim over the aforesaid 

 districts which the Kandyan King possessed, or claimed to possess, 

 prior to this [time]. 



Third Article. 



Moreover, all the sea-borde round the Island of Lanka not held by 

 the Company before the war, which is now drawing to a close, is to be 

 entirely given over to the above-mentioned Honourable Company, by 

 the very honourable Principal Officers of the Kandyan Court putting 

 the Company in absolute possession of the same, to wit, on the west 

 from Kammala to the territory of Yapapattanama, on the east side 

 from the limit of Yapapattanama territory as far as the Walagiya- 

 ganga : this coast line is given up in manner aforesaid — a distance 

 inland of one Sinhalese gawwa, more or less, but, in such wise as to 

 admit of [the fixing of] a better line of demarcation with respect to 

 rivers and hill ranges. 



Fourth Article. 



Commissioners from both parties will be appointed for the purpose 

 of defining more accurately the boundaries of these ceded districts. 

 Further, the survey will commence from the actual seashore, excluding 

 Navikara, Karaduwa, Puliyanduva, and other similar isles and banks. 

 Moreover, the Company hereby promises to offer to His Majesty every 

 year so much income as is derived from the sea-borde now ceded to 

 the Company, with a view to compensate His Majesty for the loss 

 incurred, and to ensure that the revenue be not appropriated by the 

 Company. With this object the Commissioners appointed to define 

 the boundaries will make the necessary arrangements regarding the 

 collection of the revenue. 



Fifth Article. 



On the other hand, the illustrious Company recognizes the supreme 

 rule of His Majesty as independent Lord Paramount of the other 

 districts in the Island of Lanka. 



Sixth Article. 



The several districts which the illustrious Company has taken by 

 force of arms in this war will be restored to [His Majesty's] Supreme 

 Government by the Company, from their love of peace and of pure 

 freewill, excepting places, districts, and sundry coast line within two 

 jjeyas' walk from the seashore, to which they are entitled in terms of 

 the third Article. 



Seventh Article. 



All servants and subjects, high and low, of His Majesty, will be 

 permitted to remove as much salt as they reasonably need from 

 levdyas and other salterns on the east [coast], and from Chilaw and 

 Puttalam on the west [coast], without paying any charge to the 

 Company or to any one on its behalf. 



