1836 un crime de faux en effets publics, rentre respectivement dans les dispositions des No. 3 et 4 du dit article.

3) Si un individu réclamé à contracté envers des particuliers des obligations, que son extradition l'empêche de remplir, il sera néanmoins restitué, et il restera libre à la partie lésée de poursuivre ses droits par devant l'autorité compétenté.

4) Les expressions d'après les réglemens légaux et les tarifs existans dans les deux pays" employées dans l'Art. 6., s'entendront dans ce sens que, pour le remboursement des frais auxquels l'extradition aura donné lieu, on appliquera les réglemens et les tarifs en vigueur dans le pays, où le criminel s'était réfugié.

En foi de quoi les Plénipotentiaires de Sa Majesté le Roi de Prusse et de Sa Majesté le Roi des Belges ont signé la présente Déclaration et y ont apposé le sceau de leurs armes.

Fait à Berlin, le 29. Juillet 1836..

Instruction du Gouverneur-général britannique des Indes orientales (Lord Auckland) transmise à Sir Alexander Burnes pour une mission à l'Indus. En date du 5 Septembre

1836.

(Gazette de Bombay. Morning chronicle).

(Extract.)

Fort William, 5. September 1836.

I am directed to inform you, that the Right Hon. the Governor-General of India in Council has been pleased to select you to conduct a commercial mission

münzerei, und nach Belgischen Gesetzen ein Ver- 1836 brechen der Verfälschung öffentlicher Effekten ist, selbige unter die Bestimmungen Nr. 3 und 4. des besagten Artikels begriffen wird.

3) Wenn ein reklamirtes Individuum Verbindlichkeiten gegen Privatpersonen eingegangen ist, an deren Erfüllung es durch seine Auslieferung verhindert wird, so soll dasselbe dennoch ausgeliefert werden und bleibt dem dadurch beeinträchtigten Theile überlassen, seine Rechte vor der kompetenten Behörde geltend zu machen.

4) Die im Art. 6. gebrauchten Ausdrücke,,nach den in beiden Ländern bestehenden gesetzlichen Verordnungen und Tarifen" sind so zu verstehen, dass bei dem Ersatze der Kosten, welche die Auslieferung veranlasst hat, diejenigen Verordnungen und Tarife zum Grunde gelegt werden sollen, welche in dem Lande bestehen, wohin der Verbrecher geflüchtet war.

Dess zu Urkund haben die Bevollmächtigten Sr. Majestät des Königs von Preussen und Sr. Majestät des Königs der Belgier die gegenwärtige Deklaration unterzeichnet und ihre Wappen beigedruckt.

Geschehen zu Berlin, den 29sten Juli 1836.

vention et Déclaration a eu lieu à Berlin le 27 Août 1836.

to the countries bordering on the Indus, with a view to complete the re-opening of the navigation of that river, on the basis of the Treaties lately concluded with the powers possessing territory on its banks.

You will first proceed to the Court of the Ameers of Sinde; to the chief of whom, a letter of credentials is enclosed with a copy for your information. While you remain within the limits of Sinde, you will act in communication with Colonel Pottinger, and in subordination to him; and that officer will accompany you to Hyderabad, should he consider that his doing so will further the success of the objects which the Supreme Government has in view.

The measures which require the earliest attention, are, the continuance of the surveys of the mouths of the river, and the laying down of the buoys, and the

1836 erection of rough land-marks as a guide to the navigation of that mouth which may be selected as offering, the greatest facilities to trade in the present state of the river. It may possibly be necessary to have frequent, and even annual, surveys of the entrances of the river, and declarations at the principal ports of the Bombay Presidency, of the passage which may, in each season, he most conveniently adopted. Your first care, therefore, after your arrival at Hyderabad, will be to obtain permission for the adoption of these measures; and when this object has been attained, the Bombay Government should be immediately informed of it, through Colonel Pottinger, in order that no time may be lost in taking the necessary steps.

The next point will be, to secure the actual execution of the Treaty as regards the communication between the river and the sea. The Treaty provides, that a fixed toll shall be levied at the mouth of the river, in lieu of all demands, as long as merchandize does not quit the river line; and that a native agent shall be stationed at a convenient place, on the part of the British Government, to see that no extra exactions are made. The excessive duties now levied preclude all hope of the revival of trade until these arrangements are carried into effect.

It appears to his Lordship in Council to be desirable, that you should settle with Colonel Pottinger, before you leave Bhooj, at what point the native agent may, for the present, be most conveniently established; and you I can then take him with you to Hyderabad; introduce him to the Ameers; and, lastly, send him to his destination at the mouth of the river, after procuring the necessary orders to the local officers, prohibiting them from levying any other duties, except those which are allowed by Treaty, either from river or sea vessels; and directing them to communicate with the native agent on every controverted point. The completion of this arrangement should be immediately intimated to the Bombay Government, in order that public notice of it may be given at Bombay, and the other ports of the Bombay Presidency. The place of residence of the native agent may be subsequently changed, as experience may dictate.

You are aware that the navigation between the

sea and Tatta has in all ages been attended with great 1836 difficulties, and that, at times, the obstructions have been so great as to have led to the partial or entire abandonment of this portion of the water route. It will, therefore, be necessary to be prepared for the possible case of the land route being, to the above extent, alone available for the conveyance of merchandize; and the present seems to be a favourable opportunity for obtaining the removal of every unnecessary obstacle from it. You will accordingly represent to the Ameers the present excessive amount of the transit duties between the sea and Tatta, and those which, against the spirit of the Treaty, are exactions on the watercarriage from Vikhur up the Buggaur; and you will endeavour to obtain their reduction to such moderate rates as will admit of the free passage of the trade. The most equitable and convenient plan, perhaps, would be, that the same toll should be levied, and at the same place, whether the goods are conveyed by land, or water, during this part of their route; but it is not intended that this arrangement should interfere with the established duties on opium, which are understood to be very profitable. His Lordship in Council believes that the Ameers will not be insensible, at the present period, of the advantages of a close understanding with the British Government; and they must be aware that, although a strict observance of the existing Treaties is all that will be required of them, yet a complete and cordial union between the two Governments can only be the effect of a hearty concurrence in the object for which alone these Treaties were entered into, which was the real and substantial encouragement of commercial enterprise.

In order to give full effect to the plan for re-opening the navigation of the Indus, it is necessary that some places of entrepôt and general resort, secure from all oppression and vexatious exactions, to the establishment of which general publicity may be given, and in the safety of which general confidence may be felt, should be fixed upon. Perhaps Tatta, towards the mouth of the river, and Mitthun-Kote, towards the junction of its upper streams, may be pointed out as most convenient for this purpose; but on this point a determination can best be formed by officers on the spot. You

1836 have also suggested as a means conducive to success, not unlikely to have weight in these countries, that a proclamation of a fair, and of a meeting of merchants from all countries, from Bombay to Bokhara, from Tabreez to Calcutta, at an appointed time, at some place upon the banks of the Indus, might be effectually attempted. His Lordship in Council is disposed to trust more to time, to the continuance of peace, and to the gradual growth of confidence, than to measures of the kind last mentioned; but, as a secondary means of success, they ought not to be neglected.

It would be a great point gained, if the Ameers could be persuaded to reestablish Tatta on its former footing of a commercial entrepôt; and arguments will not be wanting to show how much their interests and reputation would be benefited by such a measure. The proclamation of an annual fair, at the proper season, at that place, with low duties, and the presence of a British officer to settle disputes, might also assist in attracting merchants from Bombay on one side, and the different countries in the interior on the other; but in suggesting this, or other similar measures, you will be guided by your own local knowledge, and by the advice of Colonel Pottinger, with whom it is expected that you will freely communicate, before leaving Bhooj, on all the different points on which you will have to negotiate.

The attention of Government has lately been called, by a report from Mohun Lal, on the Muzaree Tribe, who, as you are aware, occupy a tract about 60 miles in length above Shikarpore, and whose lawless habits are likely, if not effectually checked, to cause great annoyance to the trade in that part of the route. The country of the Muzarees is nominally dependent on Sinde, and was taken into the calculation of their portion of the toll; but the Tribe is said to set the authority of the Ameers at defiance. It is, however, by the Ameers that we must in the first instance require them to be restrained; and it is to be hoped, that when the Sinde Government is known to be acting by our desire, and in furtherance of an object to which we attach much importance, its efforts to secure respect for the trade passing along the river, may still prove successful. One object, therefore, of