105
getting rid of
hundred
more of the
feeble and corrupt constables from Bombay and Madras and substituting for them an additional body of men. The success of this recent introduction of upwards of 100 Sikh from India into the Police force, under command of Major Creagh, has been very marked.
It has been decided, that I can move my way to further improvement by the employment of more Sikh. Such details however must form the subject of a separate communication.
23.
I cannot however omit noticing here that which has all along been one of the greatest difficulties in the way of most Police reforms, viz., the corruption of the Police by the regular stipends which many of the Officers and men were in the habit of receiving as hush money from the Keepers of illicit gaming houses. On that subject I have already reported so fully that I need add little here, except to state as a matter connected with the history of 1866 now under review, that by Ordinance No. 8 of 1866, re-enacted with some slight changes and omissions as Ordinance No. 9 of the present year, power was given to the Governor in Council to pass rules for the better limitation and control of gambling, the intent being to strike a decisive blow at all illegal gaming with its peculiarly corrupting and pernicious consequences by legalizing it in certain houses licensed on such conditions and on such terms.