For the supervision and maintenance of the road in its entire length
through the Maharaja's territories, the regulation of traffic on the
free highway described in Article II., the enforcement of regulations
that may be hereafter agreed upon, and the settlement of disputes
between carriers, traders, travellers, or others using that road, in
which either of the parties or both of them are subjects of the British
Government or of any foreign State, two Commissioners shall be annually
appointed, one by the British Government, and the other by the Maharaja.
In the discharge of their duties, and as regards the period of their
residence, the Commissioners shall be guided by such rules as are now
separately framed, and may, from time to time, hereafter be laid down by
the joint authority of the British Government and the Maharaja.
ARTICLE IV.
The jurisdiction of the Commissioners shall be defined by a line on each
side of the road, at a maximum width of two statute _koss_, except where
it may be deemed by the Commissioners necessary to include a wider
extent for grazing grounds. Within this maximum width the surveyors
appointed under Article I. shall demarcate and map the limits of
jurisdiction which may be decided on by the Commissioners as most
suitable, including grazing grounds; and the jurisdiction of the
Commissioners shall not extend beyond the limits so demarcated. The land
included within these limits shall remain in the Maharaja's independent
possession, and, subject to the stipulations contained in this Treaty,
the Maharaja shall continue to possess the same rights of full
sovereignty therein as in any other part of his territories, which
rights shall not be interfered with in any way by the Joint
Commissioners.
ARTICLE V.
The Maharaja agrees to give all possible assistance in enforcing the
decisions of the Commissioners, and in preventing the breach or evasion
of the regulations established under Article III.
ARTICLE VI.
The Maharaja agrees that any person, whether a subject of the British
Government, or of the Maharaja, or of the Ruler of Yarkand, or of any
foreign State, may settle at any place within the jurisdiction of the
Commissioners, and may provide, keep, maintain, and let for hire at
different stages the means of carriage and transport for the purposes of
trade.
ARTICLE VII.
The two Commissioners shall be empowered to establish supply depôts, and
to authorize other persons to establish supply depôts, at such places on
the road as may appear to them suitable; to fix the rates at which
provisions shall be sold to traders, carriers, settlers, and others, and
to fix the rent to be charged for the use of any rest-houses or serais
that may be established on the road. The officers of the British
Government in Kullu, &c., and the officers of the Maharaja in Ladakh
shall be instructed to use their best endeavours to supply provisions on
the indent of the Commissioners at market rates.
ARTICLE VIII.
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