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inspectors, and four Sergeants, Europeans,
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be necessary for granting them pensions after a term of 10 years' service, and allowing them to have to visit their families
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suggestion is the best and safest in every
respect, if it be not open to objections with which I am
unacquainted
14.
as is the custom, in the Indian army,
every three years, when they would require to be conveyed to and from Madras at Government expense, 2½ months (after the 1st three years) being permitted this indulgence annually, might perhaps under such arrangements obtain a better description of Indians than we have at present Police, all of whom have been obtained from the shipping, and are of an inferior grade. Accompanying is a Schedule showing the cost to Government of this my second proposal, which I have submitted in compliance with the wishes of Your Lordships, feeling at the same time that the first proposal...
Your Lordship will observe that the 100 additional Policemen would cost fully as much as a Company of Rifles, and as there would also be an additional Company of European Troops, if Policemen be employed, I would urgently recommend the detention of a Detachment of the Rifles, instead.
15.
In conclusion I beg to inform Your Lordship that the present Military Establishment costs £63,894.3.2 per annum. The reduced Establishment proposed by me in the first instance, and shown in Schedule A, amounts to £49,483.14.11, exhibiting a saving of £14,410.8.3; and my
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