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2 CHAPTER I—JAMMU AND KASHMIR—conoluded.
3 APPENDIX B.
4 Supplementary Notes.
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6 I.—Joint Commissioners, Ladakh.—By a Commercial Treaty between the British Gove
7 ernment and the Mahdrdjé for the purpose of developing Trade with Eastern Turkistan, entered
8 into in April, 1870 (see Aitchison’s Treaties, Vol. V1, No. LXXXVII), provision was made (see
9 Art. 3) for the appointment of Joint Commissionerr—one by the British Government, and the other
10 by th Mahdrdjé, with powers to supervise, maintain, and regulate a trade route to be opened by
11 the Maharaja, and to settle disputes between carriers, traders, travellers or others using that route,
12 in which either of the parties or both of them were subjects of the British Government or of sny
13 Foreign State. In 1872 certain rules were drawn up for the guidance of the Joint Commissioner
14 (see sbid, Appendix A), which defined more exactly their civil and criminal powers. Subsequently in
15 1875 further rules were made in respect to the refund of duty on gocds exported from British terri-
16 tory to Kashmir, or Central Asia, vd Kashmir. (Seo tbid, Appendix B.)
17 _ II.—Europeans in Kashmir.—Certain rules have been drawn up with the consent of
18 His Highness the Mahdéidjé and the sanction of the Goveinor Geueral in Council for observance by
19 all Luropeans, Americans, and Australisns who are now or may be hereafter in the territory of His
20 Highness the Mah&iaj4 of Jammu and Kashmir. (See Foreign Department Notification No. 85-E.,
21 dated 13th January, 1888, Gazette of India, 1888, Part I, page 17.)
22 _III.—Railway Lands.—Jurisdiction over the lands occupied by the Jammu and Kashmir
23 Railway in the territories of His Highness the Mahdrdéjé of Jammu and Kashiwir has been acquired
24 by the British Goverument. (See Charter II of this Part, infra, p. 138.)