Mahomed Shah and the Datu Tumungong Abdul Rahman Sri Maharajah shall continue to reside on the Island of Singapore, not to permit any retainer or follower of their said Highnesses who shall desert from their actual service, to dwell or remain in the Island of Singapore or its dependencies. But it is hereby clearly understood, that all such retainers and followers shall be natural born subjects of such parts of their Highnesses' dominions only in which their authority is at present substantially established, and that their names, at the period of entering the service of their Highnesses, shall have been duly and voluntarily inscribed in a register, to be kept for that purpose by the chief local authority for the time being.
Article XIV.
It is hereby mutually stipulated for and agreed, that the conditions of all former Conventions, Treaties, or Agreements entered into between the Honourable the English East India Company and their Highnesses the Sultan and Tumungong of Johore, shall be considered as abrogated and annulled by the present Treaty, and they are hereby abrogated and annulled accordingly, always, however, with the exception of such prior conditions as have conferred on the Honourable the English East India Company any right or title to the occupation or possession of the Island of Singapore and its dependencies, as above-mentioned.
Done and concluded at Singapore, the day and year as above written.
(Signed) SULTAN HUSSAIN MAHOMED SHAH.
(Signed) J. CRAWFURD.
DATU TUMUNGONG ABDUL RAHMAN SRI MAHARAJAH.
{Signed) AMERST.
{Signed) EDWARD PAGET.
(Signed) F. FENDALL.
Ratified by the Right Honourable the Governor-General
in Council, at Fort William in Bengal, this Nineteenth day
of November, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-four.
Secretary to Government.
