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anything belonging to one of His Majesty's subjects happen to be 

 seized within the Company's territories, it shall be appropriated for 

 the use of the Company. 



Fifteenth Article. 



If the Kandyan Court requires any articles from a foreign country 

 (provided always that the goods are to be had there), the Company 

 will procure them for His Majesty according to samples. 



Sixteenth Article. 



On the other hand, His Majesty and the Principal Officers of the 

 Kandyan Court undertake to deliver to the Company at Batticaloa 

 and Trincomalee such timber as may be required by the Company. 



Seventeenth Article. 

 All captives, whether Hollanders, Malays, or Sepoys ; and various 

 deserters, whether Hollanders or native soldiers ; and the many rebels 

 who have fled from the Company's territory, shall be sent back with 

 the utmost despatch, and the Company's cannon taken from Gurubevila 

 and other places shall be restored to the Company. 



Eighteenth Article. 

 Hereafter those who desert from either party, and slaves who have 

 escaped, shall be seized and promptly handed over ; and the owner of 

 the slaves shall pay 10 rixdollars on account of each slave as a reward 

 for the person who seized and returned them. 



Nineteenth Article. 

 If any subject of the Company within His Majesty's dominions do 

 any outrageous act, or commit an offence deserving of corporal punish- 

 ment, he shall be seized by His Majesty's men and delivered to the 

 Company, together with proofs of his crime. The Company shall then 

 inflict on him suitable punishment, and shall mete out justice to the 

 party wronged by paying compensation for loss sustained. If an 

 inhabitant of His Majesty's country do any outrageous act or commit 

 an offence within the Company's territories, the same action shall be 

 taken by the Company. 



Twentieth Article. 

 By this means close friendly relations will be maintained between 

 the two powers. Moreover, the powerful Company undertakes to 

 afford protection to His Majesty and all the Royal domain in external 

 disturbances of every kind ; while His Majesty and the leading 

 honourable Members of the Chief Council of Ministers of the Kandyan 

 Court promise not only to assist the Company, on such an occasion, to 

 the utmost of their power, whether by weapons, accoutrements, or by 

 soldiers, or bearers, or in any other way, but to continue to render 

 such assistance in full until the enemy is completely expelled from the 

 Island of Lanka. 



Twenty-first Article. 

 Neither His Majesty nor the leading honourable Members of 

 the Chief Council of Ministers of the Kandyan Court will form a 



