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Fox's In- tected or other Native Prince in India, shall be capable of being a Member of or of sitting and voting in the House of Commons: Provided that every such person, actually a Member of the House of Commons at the time of passing this Act, shall and may sit and vote for and during the remainder of the present Parliament.

S. 42. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no person having been in the civil and military service of the said United Company, and who hath resigned or quitted the same, shall be capable of being elected into or of sitting or voting in the House of Commons, at any time within after he shall have been returned

to and resident in Great Britain, or whilst any proceedings
in Parliament or any other public prosecution shall be de-
pending against him for any crimes or offences alleged to
have been committed by him whilst he was in the said ser-
vice Provided always, that such proceedings or public
prosecution shall have been commenced before the expiration
of the said space of
after the return of such
person, and shall be finally determined within the space of
after the com-
mencement thereof, otherwise the same shall not operate to
disable such person from being elected into or from sitting
or voting in the House of Commons, unless the delay in
such proceedings or public prosecution shall be at the re-
quest or through the default of the party prosecuted.

after the

S. 43. And be it further enacted, that all crimes and offences against this Act may be prosecuted in the Supreme Court at Calcutta, or in the Mayor's Court in any other of the principal Settlements in India, or in the Court of King's Bench, or any other Court in this kingdom which shall be established for taking cognizance of crimes and offences committed in India; and all the powers and authorities given to the said Court of King's Bench in and by the said Act of the thirteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, and not herein otherwise provided for, are hereby declared to be extended to all the crimes and offences committed against

this Act; and in all cases where the punishment is not Fox's Inherein appointed, the Court in which the conviction shall dia Bills. take place shall appoint such fine or imprisonment, or both, as they shall think proper, provided the fine shall not exceed nor the imprisonment

and may, in their discretion, superadd the incapacity of serving the said United Company.

APPENDIX B.

DRAFT OF PROPOSED TREATY BETWEEN THE EAST INDIA COMPANY AND THE KING OF OUDE, AND PROCLAMATION ISSUED ON THE NON-ACCEPTANCE THEREOF.

WHEREAS, in the year 1801, a Treaty was concluded between the Honourable East India Company and His Excellency the Nawab Vizier, Saadut Alee Khan Bahadoor; and whereas the sixth Article of the said Treaty requires that the Ruler of Oude, always advising with, and acting in conformity to the counsel of, the officers of the Honourable Company, shall "establish, in his reserved dominions, such a system of administration, to be carried into effect by his own officers, as shall be conducive to the prosperity of his subjects, and be calculated to secure the lives and property of the inhabitants;" and whereas the infraction of this essential engagement of the Treaty, by successive Rulers of Oude, has been continued and notorious; and whereas its long toleration of such infraction of the Treaty on the part of the Rulers of Oude has exposed the British Government to the reproach of having failed to fulfil the obligations it assumed towards the people of that country; and whereas it has now become the imperative duty of the British Government to take effectual measures for securing, permanently, to the people of Oude such a system of just and beneficent administration as the Treaty of 1801 was intended, but has failed,

to provide the following Treaty, consisting of seven Articles, is concluded, on the one part, by the Most Noble the Marquis of Dalhousie, K.T., Governor-General in Council, appointed by the Honourable Company to direct and control all their affairs in the East Indies, through Major-General Outram, C.B., Resident at Lucknow, under full powers vested in him by the said Governor-General; and, on the other part, by His Majesty Abool Munsoor, Nasir-ood-deen, Sikundur Jah, Mahommed Wajid Alee Shah, King of Oude, for himself and his heirs, through, &c.

Art. I. It is hereby stipulated and agreed, that the sole and exclusive administration of the Civil and Military Government of the territories of Oude shall be henceforth vested, for ever, in the Honourable East India Company, together with the full and exclusive right to the revenues thereof; the said Company hereby engaging to make ample provision for the maintenance of the Royal dignity, as hereinafter mentioned, and for the due improvement of the said

territories.

Art. II. It is stipulated and agreed that the sovereign title of "King of Oude" shall be retained by His Majesty, and that it shall descend, in continual succession, to the heirs male of his body born in lawful wedlock.

Art. III. It is stipulated and agreed that His Majesty the King, and his successors, shall be treated, upon all occasions, with the attention, respect, and honour which are due to a Sovereign Prince.

Art. IV. It is further stipulated and agreed that, notwithstanding the provisions of the first Article of the present Treaty, His Majesty the King of Oude, and his successors, shall retain full and exclusive jurisdiction within the precincts of the Palace at Lucknow, as well as within the Dil Khosha and Beebeepore Parks, provided always that the punishment of death shall not be inflicted by the order of the King, or within the limits of the palace and garden parks aforesaid, unless with the previous consent of the GovernorGeneral in Council.

Art. V. Whereas it is expedient and right that the Crown of His Majesty the King of Oude should be upheld in fitting dignity and honour, it is hereby stipulated and agreed that the Honourable East India Company shall pay to His Majesty the said Mahommed Wajid Alee Shah, from out of the revenues of Oude, twelve lakhs of Company's rupees per annum; and that the said Company shall further maintain, for His Majesty, a body of palace-guards, at a cost not exceeding three lakhs of Company's rupees per annum.

To each of His Majesty's successors it is agreed that the said Company shall pay twelve lakhs of Company's rupees

per annum.

Art. VI. In order that nothing may be wanting to the full measure of liberal endowment which the Honourable East India Company desires to secure to His Majesty the King of Oude, it is hereby agreed that the said Company shall take upon itself the maintenance of all collateral members of the Royal family, for whom provision is now made by His Majesty the King.

Art. VII. All former treaties between the Honourable East India Company and the Rulers of Oude which are now in force, and which are not contrary to the tenor of this engagement, are confirmed by it.

Inclosure 6 in No. 4.

DRAFT OF PROCLAMATION.

(B.)

By a treaty concluded in the year 1801, the Honourable East India Company engaged to protect the Sovereign of Oude against foreign and domestic enemies, while the Sovereign of Oude, upon his part, bound himself to establish