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TREATY OF TUMLOONG, 28.03.1861

TREATY, COVENANT, or AGREEMENT entered into by the HONOURABLE ASHLEY EDEN,
ENVOY and SPECIAL COMNIISSIONER on the Part of the BRITISH GOVERNMENT, in
virtue of full powers vested in him by the RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES, EARL
CANNING, GOVERNOR-GENERAL in COUNCIL, and by HIS HIGHNESS SEKEONG
KUZOO, MAHARAJAH of SIKKIM on his own Part, - 1861

Whereas the continued depredations and misconduct of the officers and
subjects of the Maharajah of Sikkim, and the neglect of the Maharajah to afford
satisfaction for the misdeeds of his people have resulted in an interruption for many
years past of the harmony which previously existed between the British Government
and the Government of Sikkim, and have led ultimately to the invasion and
conquest of Sikkim by a British force; and whereas the Maharajah of Sikkim has now
expressed his sincere regret for the misconduct of his servants and subjects, his
determination to do all in his power to obviate future misunderstanding, and his
desire to be again admitted into friendship and alliance with the British Government,
it is hereby agreed as follows :-

1. AII previous treaties made between the British Government and the Sikkim
Government are hereby formally cancelled.

2. The whole of Sikkim territory now in the occupation of the British forces is
restored to the Maharajah of Sikkim, and there shall henceforth be peace and amity
between the two states.

3. The Maharajah of Sikkim undertakes, so far as is within his power, to restore
within one month from the date of signing this Treaty all public property which was
abandoned by the detachment of British Troops at Rinchinpoong.

4. In indemnification of the expenses incurred in 1860 by the British Government
in occupying a portion of the territory of Sikkim as a means of enforcing just claims
which had been evaded by the Government of Sikkim and as a compensation to
the British Subjects who were pillaged and kidnapped by the Subjects of Sikkim, the
Sikkim Government agrees to pay to the British authorities at Darjeeling the sum of Rs.
7,000 (Seven thousand) rupees in the following instalments, that is to say:-

May 1st, 1861 1,000
November 1st, 1861 3,000
May 1st, 1862 3,000

As security for the due payment of this amount, it is further agreed that, in the
event of any of these instalments not being duly paid on the date appointed, the
Government of Sikkim shall make over the British Government that portion of its
territory bounded on the South by the River Rummam, on the east by the Great
Runjeet River, to the Singaleelah Range, including the monasteries of Tassiding,
Pemonchi, and Changacheling and on the west by the Singaleelah Mountain

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