The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories: A Geographical Account, Deel 73E. Stanford, 1875 - 568 pagina's |
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The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories: A Geographical Account, Deel 73 Frederic Drew Volledige weergave - 1875 |
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Pagina 526 - In consideration of the transfer made to him and his heirs by the provisions of the foregoing articles, Maharaja Gulab Singh will pay to the British Government the sum of seventy-five...
Pagina 87 - ... about half a mile long and a quarter of a mile broad...
Pagina 526 - Singh and the heirs male of his body, all the hilly or mountainous country with its dependencies, situated to the eastward of the river Indus and westward of the river Ravi, including Chamba, and excluding Lahul, being part of the territories ceded to the British Government by the Lahore State, according to the provisions of Article IV, of the Treaty of Lahore dated 9th March 1816.
Pagina 527 - Singh engages never to take or retain in his service any British subject nor the subject of any European or American State without the consent of the British Government. Article 8. Maharaja Gulab Singh engages to respect in regard to the...
Pagina 529 - The Maharaja agrees that any person, whether a subject of the British Government, or of the Maharaja, or of the...
Pagina 527 - Singh will refer to the arbitration of the British Government any disputes or questions that may arise between himself and the Government of Lahore, or any other neighbouring State, and will abide by the decision of the British Government.
Pagina 529 - Turkestan, or to the territories of His Highness the Maharaja. The British Government further agree to abolish the export duties now levied on shawls and other textile fabrics manufactured in the territories of the Maharaja, and exported to countries beyond the limits of British India.
Pagina 529 - The Maharaja agrees to levy no transit duty whatever on the aforesaid free highway, and the Maharaja further agrees to abolish all transit duties levied within his territories on goods transmitted in bond through His...
Pagina 525 - Article 3, payment of one and a half crores of rupees ; and the Lahore Government being unable to pay the whole of this sum at this time- or to give security satisfactory to the British Government for its eventual payment ; the...
Pagina 66 - The subjects of the petitions are wonderfully varied ; perhaps an employe will ask leave to return to his home, or to take his mother's ashes to the Ganges ; next, may be, a criminal is brought to receive final sentence; then a poor woman, with face veiled, will come to complain of some grievance or other ; or a dispute about a broken contract of marriage will have to be decided.