A collection of treaties, engagements, and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries

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2BAGHELK HAND— Nagod —NO. X- 1809.

3or impede their progress, but to depute an intelligent person to conduct them

4by the most convenient route, and to furnish them with the necessary supplies

5and provisions so long as they shall continue within or in the vicinity of my pos¬

6sessions.

7Article 4.

8If any of the subjects of the British Government abscond and take refuge

9in any of my villages, I engage to deliver up such person to the officers of the

10British Government immediately on his being demanded; and if any of my ryots

11or zemindars abscond and take refuge in the British territories, I agree to sub¬

12mit to the principal officer in Bundelcund a statement of my complaint against

13such person, and to abide by whatever orders may be passed on the occasion agree¬

14ably to the Regulations of the Government, and to take no steps of my own accord

15to apprehend him.

16Article 5.

17I engage not to harbour thieves or robbers in any of my villages ; and if pro¬

18perty of merchants or travellers be stolen or robbed in any of the villages sub¬

19ject to my authority, 1 agree to render the zemindars of such village responsible

20for the restitution of the stolen property, or for the delivery of the thief or robber

21to the officers of the British Government; and if any felon or murderer or person

22or persons amenable to the British laws for crimes committed in the British pos¬

23sessions should take refuge in any of my villages, I engage to seize and deliver

24over such offenders to the British Government and not to permit their escape

25from my possessions.

26Article 6.

27Having presented a statement and list of the villages in my possession, and

28having obtained a Sunnud for the same, I therefore promise and engage that if,

29amongst the villages enumerated and stated by me, in any village the property

30of any other person shall be found and the right to the same proved, or it shall

31appear that during the government of the Nawab Ali Bahadur the said village

32or villages were not in my possession, I bind myself to abide by whatever the

33British Government shall be pleased to direct and obey the same implicitly.

34Article 7.

35Whereas Gopaul Sing of the Booridellah caste and Bahadoor Sing of the Purhar

36sect have rebelled against the British Government, and have plundered and carried

37their outrages into the villages granted by the British Government to the Rajahs

38Bukht Sing and Kishorc Sing I therefore engage and promise not to give the above

39rebels shelter or protection in any part of my possessions, and not to suffer them

40to pass through my territories to those of either of the aforesaid Rajahs or of the

41British Government; and if the said men shall either openly or secretly come

42into my possessions I will by every means in my power attempt to seize or appre¬

43hend them ; and if in the execution of this engagement I am negligent or step

44as ide from its performance, I agree to any responsibility that the British Govern¬

45ment may think proper.