‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎264] (281/578)

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264 AFGHANISTAN—NO. XVT—1895.
from ancient tinier. Both tribes shall be responsible for the clearing of the water
canal according to ancient custom and according to the above-mentioned shares.
(2) Neither of the parties, i.e., neither Lowanas nor Tarakis, shall, independently
of each other, or against the wishes of each other, make a new course any where
as far as the point where the old water canal ends in the cultivated land, i.e., the
point where boundary pillar No. A. Ill has been erected, for the old water canal of
Tirwah, which passes through the Lowana and Taraki lands. (3) The thorough
fare of both these tribes, i.e., Lowanas and Shabeh Khel Tarakis, through any
place where there may be no cultivation, will be allowed in any direction within
the Taraki and Lowana boundaries in Tirwah.
We have jointly agreed that the boundary line between the lands of the above
two tribes should be the boundary line between the territories of our respective
Governments. This boundary line runs as follows :—Starting from boundary
pillar No. VII it runs southwards in a straight line about three hundred and eighty
yards to a boundary pillar No. A I on the north bank of the Tirwah joint canal
opposite Killa Zara, which is situated a few yards away on the other side of the
canal. Thence it Jollows the line of the joint canal as far as boundary pillar
No. A II, which has been built on the south bank at the point where present culti
vation commences. Thence it runs eastwards along the same joint canal as far as
boundary pillar No. A III, which has been built at the point where the existing
joint canal ceases. From here it runs eastwards in almost a straight line to a
prominent peak on the Ghwaimar hill, where boundary pillar No. A IV has been
built. Between boundary pillars A III and A IV five smaller boundary marks
A III (1), A III (2), A III (3), A III (4), A III (5) have been made to mark the
line of boundary as laid down by the maliks on oath.
From pillar A IV the boundary line runs south-westwards in a straight line
to a southern peak of the Ghwaimar hill where a boundary pillar No. A V has been
erected. From here it runs westwards in a straight line to a rockly prominence
on east bank of the Tirwah river where boundary pillar A VI has been erected.
The boundary line then runs upwards along the centre of the bed of the Tirwah
river until it arrives opposite to the point at which the Tirwah canal turns off from
the bank of the Tirwah river near Killa Zara. At this point boundary pillar No.
A VI(1) has been erected on the south bank of the Tirwah river. The boundary
line here leaves the river and goes west in a straight line two hundred and eight
yards to boundary pillar No. A VI (2) erected on a knoll. From here the boundary
hue runs in a straight line north-westwards up a spur of the Sraghar hill to
boundary pillar No. \ III and thence up the same spur in a straight line to boundary
pillar No. IX, which is on the top. of the most northern of the high peaks of the
Sraghar range. From here the boundary line runs in a straight line west five
miles to boundary pillar No. B 1 erected in the plain and thence in a straight line
north-west for two and two-fifth miles to boundary pillar No. B II erected on a
small prominent hill. From here the boundary line runs in a straight line to Khizr
Chah (well) and from Khizr Chah (well) in a straight line north-westwards to
oundary pillar No. XI, which is built on the top of a prominent hill locally