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450 or by a separate Act, upon the boundaries to be fixed to their respective possessions. The gum trade shall be carried on in future, as the English and French nations carried it on before the year 1755.

Art. 12. In regard to the rest of the coasts of Africa, the subjects of both powers shall continue to frequent them, according to the custom which has prevailed hitherto.

Art. 13. The King of Great Britain shall restore to his most Christian Majesty all the establishments which belonged to him at the commencement of the present war on the coast of Orixa, and in Bengal, with liberty to surround Chandernagor with a ditch for draining the waters; and his Britannic Majesty engages to take such measures as may be in his power, for securing to the subjects of France in that part of India, as also on the coasts of Orixa, Coromandel, and Malabar, a safe, free, and independent trade, such as was carried on by the late French East India Company, whether it be carried on by them as individuals, or as a company.

Art. 14. Pondicherry, as well as Karical, shall likewise be restored and guarantied to France; and his Britannic Majesty shall procure to serve as a dependency round Pondicherry, the two districts of Valanour and Bahour; and as a dependency round Karical, the four contiguous magans.

Art. 15. France shall again enter into possession of Mahé, and of the comptoir at Surat; and the French shall carry on commerce in this part of India, conformably to the principles laid down in the 13th Article of this Treaty.

Art. 16. In case France has allies in India, they shall be invited, as well as those of Great Britain, to accede to the present pacification; and for that purpose, a term of four months, to be computed from the day on which the proposal shall be made to them, shall be allowed them to make their decision; and in case of refusal on their part, their Britannic and most Christian Majesties agree not to give them any assistance, directly or indirectly, against the British or French possessions, or against the ancient possessions of their respective allies; and their said Majesties shall offer them their good offices towards a mutual accommodation.

Art. 17. The King of Great Britain, desirous of giving his most Christian Majesty a sincere proof of reconciliation and friendship, and of contributing to the solidity of the peace which is on the point of being re-established, will consent to the abrogation and suppression of all the Articles relative to Dunkirk, from the Treaty of peace concluded at Utrecht in 1713, inclusively, to this time.