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commerce to any European nation, without the express consent 
of the Dutch. All Indian nations are, however, to be at liberty 
for the next three years to come to traffic in their own vessels, 
without paying any custom ; but after that period, they are 
to be subjected to such duties as shall be fixed by the King 
and the Dutch. These customs are to be shared equally by 
the contracting powers, and commissioners are to be appointed 
on both sides for tlie purpose of superintending their exaction. 
The King agrees to furnish the Dutch with timber and other 
materials for ship-building, at a moderate rate. He obliges him- 
self to dispose of all his precious stones and pearls to the 
Dutch at a fair rate, as they, on their part, engage to supply 
him with set jewels and other valuable ornaments ; but any 
differences tliat may arise from this article shall in no degree 
tend to dissolve the alliance. The King alone to have the 
power to coin money, or to raise the value of the coin beyond 
the proportion which shall at present be fixed upon between 
him and the Dutch; and any of the subjects of either power 
wdio is convicted of coining base money, to be put to death. 
A new coinage to take place every third year, and by turns 
at Candy and Columbo, with a view of reducing all imported 
coins to tlie established currency ; and the raising or lowering 
of the coin, to be regulated by the exigencies of the war and 
the state. All the officers of the Dutch company to be ex- 
empt from his Majesty’s jurisdiction, and to be tried for any 
offence by their own countrymen ; the same privilege to be 
reciprocally extended to the subjects of the King. All prizes 
taken on the coasts of Ceylon to be shared equally between 
the contracting parties, provided the prisoners be ransomed 
and not put to death. Passes to be granted by the Dutch 
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