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 AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE STATE OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR STATE AND THE DOMINION OF INDIA HEREAS it is to the benefit and advantage of the Dominion of India as well as of the Indian States that existing agreements and administrative arrangements in the matters of common concern, should continue for the time being, between the Dominion of India or any part thereof and the Indian States:

OW therefore it is agreed between the JAMMU AND KASHMIR State and the Dominion of India that:-


 * 1.  (1) Until new agreements in this behalf are made, all agreements

and administrative arrangements as to matters of common concern now existing between the Crown and any Indian State shall, in so far as may be appropriate, continue as between the Dominion of India or, as the case may be, the part thereof, and the State.


 * (2) In particular, and without derogation from the generality of sub clause (1) of this clause the matters referred to above shall include the matters specified in the schedule to this Agreement.


 * 2. Any dispute arising out of this Agreement, or out of the agreements or arrangements hereby continued, shall, unless any provision is made therein for arbitration by an authority other than the Governor-General or Governor, be settled by arbitration according, as far as may be, to the procedure of the Indian Arbitration Act, 1899.

3. Nothing in this Agreement includes the exercise of any paramountcy functions.

Maharajadhiraj of Jammu and Kashmir State: [SIGNED:]

Maharaja Sir Hari Singh

Secretary to the Government of India: [SIGNED:]

V. P. Menon P. T. O.