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to the concluding passage of your letter - though your Warrant should
that
ever
to
be amended so as to authorize you inflict any other punishment than firing
of Her Majesty's Regiments
men attached to the Police Corps who might misconduct themselves, His Excellency the Governor in Council should look upon such a step as imprisoning or flogging them to be altogether inadvisable since it is quite obvious that men who had been guilty of offences calling for the public infliction and consequent degradation of those punishments, would be utterly unfit to be again
trusted with Police Duties.
His Excellency the Governor in Council has given the subject of your letter the fullest and most serious consideration, and he is decidedly of opinion
very
men
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cannot be restrained
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opinion that if ... from Excesses by mulcting them of a portion - or in extreme cases of the whole - of their liberal Daily Pay there is only alternative left for dealing with them - that of sending them back to the Regiment, to which they belong, and it therefore follows that that should be invariably done.
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In England the smallest offence on the part of a Policeman is attended with his immediate dismissal and you must be personally
aware that the same
rule is also rigidly enforced in India towards persons similarly employed who
not be enlisted Soldiers, whilst in
may
all cases where the latter are (as is to a large extent at all the Residencies) lent for Civil Duties or placed on what is termed the Town Major's List for petty Staff employ, the least deviations,
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