representative or representatives. And lastly, it is hereby expressly stipulated and agreed, and the said United Company do hereby covenant with the said Robert Lord Clive, his executors, administrators, and assigns, that in case it shall happen that the said United Company, after the commencement of the said year of our Lord 1784,[V] shall cease to employ a military force in their actual pay and service in the East Indies, and also ships for carrying on their trade and commerce, then and in such case, as soon as the said event shall happen, the said United Company shall and will pay unto the said Robert Lord Clive, his executors, administrators, or assigns, for his and their own use, at their treasury in Calcutta aforesaid, the full sum of five lacks of sicca rupees, but subject nevertheless with the interest of the said three lacks of rupees, in the proportion the said sums bear to each other, to the payment of all such pensions and annuities, for the lives of the persons then entitled thereto only, as shall, at the time such event shall happen, be payable out of or chargeable upon the said trust fund, according to the true intent and meaning of these presents. In witness whereof the said United Company have hereunto affixed their common seal, and the said Robert Lord Clive hath set his hand and seal, the day and year first above written. (Company's Seal.) (L.S.) CLIVE. Sealed and delivered, being first duly stamped, by the within-named Robert Lord Clive, in the presence of Richard Holt, Thomas Morton. GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR TRANSACTING THE BUSINESS OF THE MILITARY FUND. At a Court of Directors of the East India Company, _14th January, 1824_. The Court having had under their consideration the regulations established for transacting the business of the Military Fund; resolved, That the following regulations be now established, and that, for the future, the paymaster do govern himself thereby in conducting the business of the fund. 1. That every petitioning officer and soldier shall produce a certificate from his commanding officer of his being an invalid, and rendered incapable of further service in India, together with an approbation of such certificate by the Governor and Council of the Presidency where such officer or soldier shall have served. 2. That every commissioned officer shall previously make oath before the Governor and Council, _viz._ a colonel, that he, or any person in trust for him, is not possessed of or entitled to real and personal estate to the value of 4,000_l._; a lieutenant-colonel, of 3,000_l._; a major, of 2,500_l._; a captain, of 2,000_l._; a lieutenant, of 1,000_l._; and an ensign, of 750_l._; and shall furnish a declaration, acknowledging themselves to be acquainted with the resolution of the Court of Directors, which precludes all officers who are admitted pensioners on the military fund from returning again to the service.