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APP. xxxvI TREATY WITH GULAB SINGH

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Article 10.-Maharaja Gulab Singh acknowledges the
supremacy of the British Government, and will, in token of
such supremacy, present annually to the British Government
one horse, twelve perfect shawl goats of approved breed (six
male and six female), and three pairs of Kashmir shawls.
This treaty, consisting of ten articles, has been this day
settled by Frederick Currie, Esq., and Brevet-Major Henry
Montgomery Lawrence, acting under the directions of the
Right Honourable Sir Henry Hardinge, G.C.B., GovernorGeneral, on the part of the British Government, and by
Maharaja Gulab Singh in person; and the said treaty has
been this day ratified by the seal of the Right Honourable
Sir Henry Hardinge, G.C.B., Governor-General.
Done at Amritsar, this 16th day of March, in the year of
our Lord 1846, corresponding with the 17th day of Rabi-ulawwal, 1262, Hijri.
APPENDIX XXXVII
SECOND TREATY WITH LAHORE OF 1846
Foreign Department, Camp, Bhyrowal Ghat, on the
left Bank of the Beas, the 22nd December 1846.
THE late Governor of Kashmir, on the part of the Lahore
State, Shaikh Imam-ud-din, having resisted by force of arms
the occupation of the province of Kashmir by Maharaja
Gulab Singh, the Lahore Government was called upon to
coerce their subject, and to make over the province to the
representative of the British Government, in fulfilment of
the conditions of the treaty of Lahore, dated 9th March
1846.
A British force was employed to support and aid, if necessary, the combined forces of the Lahore State and Maharaja
Gulab Singh in the above operations.
Shaikh Imam-ud-din intimated to the British Government
that he was acting under orders received from the Lahore
Durbar in the course he was pursuing; and stated that the
insurrection had been instigated by written instructions
received by him from the Wazir Raja Lal Singh.
Shaikh Imam-ud-din surrendered to the British agent on
a guarantee from that officer, that if the Shaikh could, as he
asserted, prove that his acts were in accordance with his
instructions, and that the opposition was instigated by the
Lahore minister, the Durbar should not be permitted to
inflict upon him, either in his person or his property, any
penalty on account of his conduct on this occasion. The