Treaty of Kolkata 1916 (Bharat-France)

[miketr]

Treaty of Kolkata

Article I. Bharat, for the one part, and France, for the other part, declare that the state of war between them has ceased. They are resolved to live henceforth in peace and amity with one another.

Article II. As soon as the General Peace is concluded Bharat will evacuate the French Territory of Kolkata

Article III.  As soon as the General Peace is concluded the prisoners of war of both parties will be released to return to their homeland.

Article IV. France agrees to sell the territory of Kolkata to Bharat.  All property of the Government of France within Kolkata will become the property of the Government of Bharat.

Article V. Bharat agrees to pay France $1,200 for the territory of Kolkata.  Bharat agrees to respect the private property of the people of Kolkata.

Article VI.  People living in Kolkata have the right to emigrate from said territory before the change over in ownership occurs.  People emigrating are permitted to take their personal wealth.  Those wishing to emigrate cannot take items of economic significance such as machinery, etc but will have to sell them.  A joint commission will establish a fair value for such items and if no other buying can be found the Bharat government will pay for it.  (OOC Note 1 & 2)

Article VII.  No looting or further destruction is to be conducted in Kolkata by either party.  A joint commission will be established to confirm that this does not occur. (OOC Note 3)

Article VIII. Once payment in full is received by France the hand over of control of Kolkata will occur no later than 60 days afterward.

Article IX. In the interpretation of this treaty, the French and Hindi texts are authoritative for the relations between France and Bharat.

Article X. The present treaty of peace will be ratified.  The exchange of the documents of ratification shall take place within a period of three weeks. Unless otherwise provided for in its articles, in its annexes, or in the additional treaties, the treaty of peace enters into force at the moment of its ratification.

Done in Double at Kolkata

Notes

OOC Note 1 It is expected that 2.7 Million people are going to leave the colony and to parts else where.  As a result of the fighting and emigration not only will the colony loose the 2.7 million but it will not receive bi annual growth till change over occurs.

OOC Note 2 The 2nd part of this clause is to prevent business from packing up their machinery and fleeing the colony with it; which will occur anyways just not to the same degree.  Also a large drain in wealth is going to occur as people take their savings, etc and flee.  The result is going to be that Kolkata will loose more IC and nations that get the refugees will get some free cash to invest in IC as the refugees setup new business, farms, etc.  This will cause another 2 IC to become damaged and there will be $75 to divide up among the refugee destinations.  Bharat with the terms of article VI can repair the damage as it occurs and will in effect be paying the nations that get the refugees.

OOC Note 3 The fighting in Kolkata caused the following damage to be done to the colonies economic infrastructure.
0.25 BP lost, 0.50 BP damaged and 1.25 BP intact
2.25 IC lost, 4.5 IC damaged and 11.25 IC intact

OOC Note 4 Damaged BP and IC don't produce while damage and damaged BP and IC will degrade over time to destroyed if not repaired.  We will see whats left but I suspect that when Bharat takes over they will get 15 Pop, 1.25 BP and 11.25 IC and the rest will have degraded into junk because it's going to take so long for Bharat to pay the $1,200.

[maddox]

Aknowledged and signed quadruple.

Every member of the Nassau Treaty gets a copy.


By the hand of Premier Galpoux.