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 for the service of Government, and that you and your posterity shall never be hereafter liable to demands of military aid of whatever description.

6. In consequence of this release, the British Government will be deprived of a portion of its military resources which must be supplied by other means ; and you will derive from it an addition to your income equal to the amount of the expense of maintaining your military establishments. It is therefore just that your augmented resources should contribute to the support of the State an equivalent for the services now relinquished.

7. The relief your finances will derive from the disbandment of your military peons, will according to the accounts furnished by yourself be equal to pagodas 1,27,323 independently of the discontinuance of charges for ammunition, military stores, garrisons and forts, and independently also of the revenue to be produced on the reversion of