1 140 APPENDIX.
2 livers, a portion of the toll, — rupees 155-4 shall be levied
3 opposite to Mitthunkote, on the former side, on boats coming
4 from sea to Rooper; and rupees 67-15 in the vicinity of
5 Hurreekee on the latter side, on boats going from Rooper
6 towards the sea.
7 Article Src?. — In order to facilitate realizing the toll dud
8 to different states, and for speedily and satisfactorily adjust-
9 ing any disputes connected with the safety of the navigation
10 and welfare of the trade, a British officer will reside oppo-
11 site to Mitthimkote, and a native agent on the part of the
12 British Grovemmeht, opposite Hurreekee, who will both
13 be subject to the orders of the British agent at Loodianah^
14 and agents appointed by the other states interested in the
15 navigation (viz. Bhawulpore and Scinde, together with
16 those of Lahore) to reside at the above mentioned places^
17 will co-operate with them in the execution of their duties.
18 Article 4th. — In order to guard against imposition on the
19 part of merchants in falsely complaining of being plundered
20 of property which formed no part of their cargoes, they
21 are required, on taking out their passports, to produce an
22 invoice of their cargo, which being duly authenticated, a
23 copy will be annexed to their passports; and whenever
24 their boats may be brought to for the night, they are re^
25 quired to give immediate notice to the thanadars or officers
26 of the place, and to request protection for themselves, at the
27 same time showing the passports they may have received at
28 Mitthunkote or Hurreekee, as the case may be.
29 Article 5th. — Such parts of the 5th, 7th, 9th, and 10th
30 articles of the Treaty of the 26th Dec, 1832, having refe-
31 rence to fixing a duty on the value and quantity of mer-
32 chandize, and to the mode of its collection, are hereby
33 rescinded, and the foregoing articles substituted in their
34 place, agreeably to which, and the condition of the preamble,
35 the toll will be levied.
36 In the middle of 1838 was concluded the tripartite treaty,
37 according to which Runjeet Singh was obliged to be aiding
38 and assisting in the arrangements for restoring Shah Soojah