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Article 4.-If the Lahore Government fails in the performance of the conditions of the foregoing article, the British
Government shall be at liberty to withdraw the force from
Lahore, at any time before the expiration of the period
specified in Article 1.
Article 5.-The British Government agrees to respect the
bona fide rights oft hose Jagirdars within the territories
ceded by Articles 3 and 4 of the treaty of Lahore, dated
9th instant, who were attached to the families of the late
Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Kharak Singh, and Sher Singh;
and the British Government will maintain those Jagirdars
in their -bona fide possessions, during their lives.
Article 6.-The Lahore Government shall receive the
assistance of the British local authorities in recovering the
arrears of revenue justly due to the Lahore Government
from their Kardars and managers in the territories ceded
by the provisions of Articles 3 and 4 of the treaty of Lahore,
to the close of the Kharif harvest of the current year, viz,
1902, of the Sambat Bikarmajit.Article 7.-The Lahore Government shall be at liberty
to remove from the forts in the territories specified in the
foregoing article, all treasure and state property, with the
exception of guns. Should, however, the British Government desire to retain any part of the said property, they
shall be at liberty to do so, paying for the same at a fair
valuation; and the British officers shall give their assistance
to the Lahore Government, in disposing on the spot of such
part of the aforesaid property as the Lahore Government
may not wish to remove, and the British officers may not
desire to retain.
Article 8.-Commissioners shall be immediately appointed
by the two Governments, to settle and lay down the boundary between the two States, as defined by Article 4 of the
treaty of Lahore, dated 9th March 1846.
APPENDIX XXXVI
TREATY WITH GULAB SINGH OF 1846
Treaty between the British Government and Maharaja Gulab
Singh, concluded at Amritsar, on 16th March 1846.
TREATY between the British Government on the one part,
and Maharaja Gulab Singh of Jammfi on the other, concluded, on the part of the British Government, by Frederick
Currie, Esq., and Brevet-Major Henry Montgomery Lawrence, acting under the orders of the Right Honourable
Sir Henry Hardinge, G.C.B., one of Her Britannic Majesty's
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