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SUNNUD GRANTED TO THE RAJAH OF SIKKIM, 07.04.1817

The Honourable East India Company, in consideration of the services
performed by the Hill tribes under the control of the Rajah of Sikkim, and of the
attachment shown by him to the interest of the British Government, grants to the
Sikkimputtee Rajah, his heirs and successors, all that portion of low land shaded
eastward of the Meitche River, and westward of the Maha Nuddee, formerly
possessed by the Rajah of Nepaul, but ceded to the Honourable East India
Company by the Treaty of Segoulee, to be held by the Sikkimputtee Rajah as a
feudatory, or as acknowledging the supremacy of the British Government over the
said lands, subject to the following dominions.

The British Laws and Regulations will not be introduced into the territories in
question, but the Sikkimputtee Rajah is authorized to make such laws and regulations
for their internal Government, as are suited to the habits and customs of the
inhabitants, or that may be in force in his other dominions.

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The articles of Provisions of the Treaty signed at Titalya on the 10 February
1817, and ratified by his Excellency the Right Honourable the Governor-General in
Council on the 15 March following, are to be in force with regard to the lands
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hereby assigned to the Sikkimputtee Rajah, as far as they are applicable to the
circumstances of those lands.
It will be especially incumbent on the Sikkimputtee Rajah and his officers to
surrender, on application from the officers of the Honourable Company, all persons
charged with criminal offences, and all public defaulters who may take refuge in
the lands now assigned to him, and to allow the police officers of the British
Government to pursue into those lands and apprehend all such persons.

In consideration of the distance of the Sikkimputtee Rajah's residence from
the Company's Provinces, such orders as the Governor-General in Council may,
upon any sudden emergency, find it necessary to transmit to the local authorities in
the lands now assigned, for the security or protection of those lands, are to be
immediately obeyed and carried into execution in the same manner as coming
from the Sikkimputtee Rajah.

In order to prevent all disputes with regard to the boundaries of the low lands
granted to the Sikkimputtee Rajah, they will be surveyed by a British Officer, and their
limits accurately laid down and defined.

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