ove a serious
charge.
will-prove Immediately, however,
m
on
the
Colony. -
receiving your
m
Lordship's Deepatch, Idirected the men- to be informed of the terms contained in it.. They unanimously preferred the increased - rate of pay to a pension, dependent fifteen years' service; and Mr. May, the Superintendent, at the same time presented.
Report, stating the bad effects that.
a.
would attendi
th
any attempt at making distinction between the Soldiers and the
Civilians now in the force, and the difficulty he already experiences in filling up the vacancies that reeur...
To remedy this, he proposes to increase the pay of all employed by 20 per
with the pension.
Cent; to do
away
a lower rate of
altogether; and, by giving. pay to Volunteers on their first joining the force, and gradually increasing it, to
hold
No. 2.
A
hold-out a
125
inducement to
good
etronger. ind Conduct and to long
service in the force...
Without this, he anticipates that it will. be.
found imporsible to keep up the force to what is absolutely required for the steurity of the place ; but as the increased-rate of pay would lead to increased drunkenness, the prevailing failing among
these men,
and would entail. a considerable addition
to what is already a heavy charge on the Colonial Funds; -
Jam
unwilling
to
propose this alteration, unless it becomes unavoidably necessary; and I should recommend at present, as the most- advisable and economical-course,
that
the arrangements should remain on. their original footing... I may add, that the fund. collected from deductions from
pay of the men themselves,
themselves, fines for misconduct te, amounts already to
the
a
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