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VI. That some time after the new confirmation aforesaid, that is to say,
in the year 1774, the Governor-General and Council, which had been
formed and the members thereof appointed by act of Parliament, did
obtain the assignment of the sovereignty paramount of the said
government by treaty with the Nabob of Oude, by which, although the
supreme dominion was changed, the terms and the conditions of the tenure
of the Rajah of Benares remained; as the said Nabob of Oude could
transfer to the East India Company no other or greater estate than he
himself possessed in or over the said zemindary. But to obviate any
misconstruction on the subject, the said Warren Hastings did propose to
the board, that, whatever provision might in the said treaty be made
for the interest of the Company, the same should be "without an
encroachment on the just rights of the Rajah, or _the engagements
actually subsisting with him_."
VII. That the said Warren Hastings, then having, or pretending to have,
an extraordinary care of the interest of the Rajah of Benares, did, on
his transfer of the sovereignty, propose a new grant, to be conveyed in
new instruments to the said Rajah, conferring upon him further
privileges, namely, the addition of the sovereign rights of the mint,
and of the right of criminal justice of life and death.
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