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2 ge Article VI. _tThe “Maharajah engages to dis- The army of
3 band the mutinous troops of the Lahore army, reorganised.
4 taking from them ‘their arms, and His Highness ~
5 agrees to reorganise the Regular or Aeen regiments
6 of infantry, upon the system, and according to the
7 regulations as to pay and allowances, observed in
8 the time of the late Maharajah Runjeet Singh.
9 The Maharajah further engages to pay up allow-
10 ances to the soldiers that are discharged, under
11 provisions ‘of this article.
12 “ Article VII.—The regular army of the Lahore Me fre ee
13 state shall henceforth be limited to twenty-five army.
14 battalions of infantry, consisting of 800 bayonets
15 each, with 12,000 cavalry; this number at no time
16 to be exceeded, without the concurrence of the
17 British government; ‘and should it be necessary
18 at any time, for any special cause, that this force
19 should be increased, the cause shall be fully ex-
20 plained to the British government; and when the
21 especial necessity shall have passed, the regular
22 troops shall be again reduced to the standard spe~
23 ‘ cified in the former clause of this article. .
24 “ Article VII..—The Maharajah will surrender The hostile
25 .to the British government all the guns, thirty-six or er a
26 in number, which have been pointed against the
27 -British troops, and which, having. been placed on
28 ‘the right bank of the river Sutlej, were not cap- °
29 tured at the battle of Sobraon. ‘
30 “ Article 1X.—The control of the rivers Beas The control of
31 the navigation
32 and Sutlej, with the continuations of the latter the Indus
33 and tributaries
34 river, commonly called the Garrah and Punjund, to ate the
35 to the confluence of the Indus at Mithunkote, and