THE DUTCH AND PERAK
Company
and the next sultan of Perak, Muhammad or Mahmud shah.
“Governor- General Petrus Albertus Van Der Parra”
October
17, 1765
Contract between the Dutch East India Company and
Paduca Sri Sultan Muhammad Shah, King of Perak.
1.
An
upright, true and everlasting confidence and friendship shall subsist between
the contracting parties
2.
The
King promise to deliver all the tin which his country produces exclusively to
to the company.
3.
At
the rate of C. 36 ½ or Spanish Dollars 11 1/3 lbs. per 125 lbs., or per bahar of 375 lbs. Spanish
Dollars 34.
4.
The
king promises to deliver the tin at the company’s factory where the same as
well as what his subjects supply shall be weighed with the company’s scales and
never to deviate from the rule.
5.
The
king promises to take proper measures to prevent the smuggling of tin and
interdict the exportation of the same, on pain of forfeiting vessel and cargo
6.
If
any person were detected to export tin clandestinely, his vessal and cargo
shall be confiscated and the produce be divided between the king and the
company
7.
All
vessels departing, those of the king and chiefs not excepted, shall touch at
the factory and be visited there.
8.
If
the crew of a foreign vessel were to commit hostile actions durin the
visitation, the king and his subjects shall purse and seize the same and
deliver them over to the company’s resident
9.
All
European deserters shall be deserters shall be delivevered over to the residents
and not be permitted to adopt the Muhammad religion
10.
The
king promise to assist the dutch garrison on all occasions and not permit the
equipment of pirate vessels
11.
The
company engages to punish her servant and subjects who should couse any loss to
his highness
12.
The
king and company promise strictly to fulfill all the articles of this contract
13.
The
king finally promise to publish the tenor of this contract throughtout his
dominions
signed, sealed in the kingdom of perak,
in the island inderasakti, by a dutch commissioner and
serveral deputies of his highness.
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