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honourable Members of the Chief Council of Ministers of the 

 Kandyan Court will give their assent to the said agreement ; that, 

 further, His Majesty will affix his Royal Sign Manual ; that the Chief 

 Ministers of the Kandyan Court will affix their signatures, and that it 

 will be attested by the Government Seals. 



At Colombo, on the 14th day of the month of February, in the year 

 One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty-six. Cs 



* No reference is made in the above Treaty to a heavy war indemnity 

 and other humiliating conditions, the annual delivery of elephants, and the 

 special transfer of the pearl fisheries to the Dutch — all of which find a 

 place in (A) Eschelckron and (B) Percival. Possibly there was a further 

 Treaty. 



A. 



1. The Emperor shall keep within the mountains, and have nothing to 

 do with the coasts, where the Company may throw up as many fences as 

 they please, and increase or diminish them at pleasure. 



2. The Emperor shall pay all the extraordinary expenses incurred by the 

 Honourable Company during this war, and occasioned by him, the whole 

 amounting to 10,000,000 of piastres. 



3. And whereas the Emperor gives his word that he is not able to do this 

 with specie, he shall therefore discharge it by three installations, partly in 

 cinnamon, and partly in other articles of commerce. 



4. The Emperor shall by his subjects, the Cingalese, not only throw up 

 again every fence, redoubt, &c, that has been destroyed, but shall likewise 

 assist the Dutch, at his own expense, in every new fortification in future to 

 be erected. 



5. Candia shall be restored again to the Emperor ; and in other respects, 

 all and every contract, made previously to this, is hereby confirmed and 

 renewed. (Eschelckron, pp. 305-307.) 



B. 



All those parts of the sea coast which had not formerly belonged to the 

 Dutch were now conceded to them, with the addition of several other tracts 

 which they reckoned advantageous for their purposes. They insisted that 

 the king should have no intercourse with any other power whatever ; and 

 that he should deliver up all foreigners or subjects of other princes who 

 should happen to come into his dominions. All cinnamon which grew on 

 the coasts was to be considered as exclusively Dutch property ; and the 

 natives, by way of special privilege, were allowed quietly to cut and carry it 

 to the several Dutch factories on the island. The cinnamon growing in the 

 woods was allowed to be, in some degree, the property of the natives ; they 

 were obliged to peel it and sell it to the Dutch at a rix-dollar a pound. The 

 King of Candy was also obliged to stipulate that his subjects should gather 

 the pepper, cardamoms, coffee, and cotton growing in the interior, and sell 

 them to the Dutch at certain very low prices. A certain proportion of 

 elephants' teeth, arekanut, and betel leaf, together with a share of the 

 precious stones found in their country, formed part of the tribute imposed 



