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 A TRADE TREATY CONCLUDED 93 either side, and providing for a mutual restitution of ships and property, declared the trade in the East to be open to both Companies. Both Companies should exert themselves to reduce the native dues and exac- tions, to keep down prices of Indian commodities in GOLD LJLCE WORKERS AT LUCKNOW. the East, and to maintain a high scale of prices in Eu- rope. On the southeast Indian coast the English were to have free trade at Pulicat on paying half the ex- penses of the Dutch garrison. In Java the pepper trade should be equally divided. In the Moluccas and the Banda and Amboyna Archipelagoes, which included the clove and nutmeg islands, the English should have one- third and the Dutch two-thirds of the trade, paying for the garrisons in a corresponding ratio. Each Company