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the eastward of Ballanic should his Excellency the Governor ex- 
press a wish to that jmrport. 
VI. His Candian Majesty grants his permission to the English 
Government on Ceylon, to cut such timber as may be selected in 
all his Majesty's forests, lying below Ballanic Hill, and to transport 
it either by land, or water, to any place where they may wish to 
convey it ; and the English engage not to cut down such trees as may 
be the property of individuals. His Candian Majesty also agrees to 
let the English cut wood to the eastward of Ballanic, upon the same 
conditions mentioned in the last Article with respect to cinnamon. 
VII. It is agreed that a free trade shall be opened between the 
countries, subject to both Governments, and that no duties shall 
be exacted on the common frontier by either party. 
VIII. The native-born subjects of both, or either of the two 
high contracting Parties, being in the territory of the other, shall 
enjoy the same protection and privileges, and be subject to the 
same laws, as the subjects of the Power in whose territory they 
are, with the exception of the British troops, who are to be subject 
to their own military law. But after this treaty shall have been 
signed, all persons guilty of violent outrages, and who may take 
refuge in the country of either of the contracting parties, are upon 
requisition to be mutually delivered up. 
IX. The religion of the Candians, their temples or pagodas, 
and the lands attached to them, as well as the priests, shall be 
respected by the English, and all his Britannick Majesty's subjects 
shall have the strictest injunctions given to them not to offer dis- 
respect, or insult, to any of the objects of the Candian worship, under 
pain of the severest punishment. 
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