APPENDIX E.

FIRST TREATY BETWEEN ENGLAND AND DOST MAHOMED OF CABUL

TREATY between the British Government and His Highness Ameer Dost Mahomed Khan, Walee of Cabul, and of those countries of Afghanistan now in his possession, concluded on the part of the British Government by John Lawrence, Esquire, Chief Commissioner of the Punjab, in virtue of full powers vested in him by the Most Noble James Andrew, Marquis of Dalhousie, K.T., etc., Governor-General of India; and on the part of the Ameer of Cabul, Dost Mahomed Khan, by Sirdar Gholam Hyder Khan, in virtue of full authority granted to him by His Highness.

ART. 1.-Between the Honourable East India Company and His Highness Ameer Dost Mahomed Khan, Walee of Cabul, and of those countries now in his possession, and the heirs of the said Ameer, there shall be perpetual peace and friendship.

ART. 2.-The Honourable East India Company engages to respect those territories of Afghanistan now in His Highness's possession, and never to interfere therein.

ART. 3.-His Highness Ameer Dost Mahomed Khan, Walee of Cabul, and of those countries of Afghanistan now in his possession, engages, on his own part and on the part of his heirs, to respect the territories of the Honourable East India Company, and never to interfere therein, and to be the friend of the friends and enemy of the enemies of the Honourable East India Company.

Done at Peshawur, this 30th day of March, 1855, corresponding with the 11th day of Rujjub, 1271 Hijree.

Ratified by the Most Noble the Governor-
General at Ootakamund, this 1st day of

May, 1855.

(Signed)

DALHOUSIE.

APPENDIX F.

SECOND TREATY BETWEEN ENGLAND AND DOST MAHOMED OF CABUL

ARTICLES of Agreement made at Peshawur on the 26th January 1857 (corresponding with Jumadee-ool-Awul 29th, A.H. 1273), between Ameer Dost Mahomed Khan, Ruler of Cabul, and of those countries of Afghanistan now in his possession, on his own part, and Sir John Lawrence, K.C.B., Chief Commissioner of the Punjab, and Lieutenant-Colonel H. B. Edwardes, C.B., Commissioner of Peshawur, on the part of the Honourable East India Company, under the authority of the Right Honourable Charles John Viscount Canning, Governor-General of India in Council.

1. Whereas the Shah of Persia, contrary to his engagement with the British Government, has taken possession of Herat, and has manifested an intention to interfere in the present possessions of Ameer Dost

Mahomed Khan, and there is now war between the British and Persian Governments, therefore the Honourable East India Company, to aid Ameer Dost Mahomed Khan to defend and maintain his present possessions in Balkh, Cabul, and Kandahar against Persia, hereby agrees, out of friendship, to give the said Ameer one lac of Company's rupees monthly during the war with Persia, on the following conditions:

2. The Ameer shall keep his present number of cavalry and artillery, and shall maintain not less than eighteen thousand infantry, of which thirteen thousand shall be regulars, divided into thirteen regiments.

3. The Ameer is to make his own arrangements for receiving the money at the British Treasuries, and conveying it through his own country.

4. British officers, with suitable establishments and orderlies, shall be deputed, at the pleasure of the British Government, to Cabul or Kandahar or Balkh, or all three places, or wherever an Afghan army be assembled to act against the Persians. It will be their duty to see generally that the subsidy granted to the Ameer be devoted to the military purposes for which it is given, and to keep their own Government informed of all affairs. They will have nothing to do with the payment of the troops, or advising the Cabul Government, and they will not interfere in any way in the internal administration of the country. The Ameer will be responsible for their safety and honourable treatment while in his country, and for keeping them acquainted with all military and political matters connected with the war.

5. The Ameer of Cabul shall appoint and maintain a vakil at Peshawur.

6. The subsidy of one lac per mensem shall cease from the date on which peace is made between the British and Persian Governments, or at any previous time, at the will and pleasure of the Governor-General of India.

7. Whenever the subsidy shall cease, the British officers shall be withdrawn from the Ameer's country; but at the pleasure of the British Government a vakil, not a European officer, shall remain at Cabul on the part of the Government, and one at Peshawur on the part of the Government of Cabul.

8. The Ameer shall furnish a sufficient escort for the British officers from the British border when going to the Ameer's country, and to the British border when returning.

9. The subsidy shall commence from 1st January, 1857, and be payable at the British Treasury one month in arrears.

10. The five lacs of rupees which have been already sent to the Ameer (three to Candahar and two to Cabul) will not be counted in this Agreement. They are a free and separate gift from the Honourable East India Company. But the sixth lac, now in the hands of the mahajuns of Cabul, which was sent for another purpose, will be one of the instalments under this Agreement.

no

11. This Agreement in no way supersedes the Treaty made at Peshawur on 30th March 1855 (corresponding with 11th of Rujjub, 1271), by which the