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from a corrupt sauce, provided he agreed not to molest the illegal gamblers in his district.
5. So long, therefore, as it may be possible to maintain the present system of a small and select but unconnected active centre of action, quite apart from the Police, to watch for Public nuisances and put down illegal gaming haunts, we gain immensely by the cessation of the old systematic corruption.
6. At present that experiment continues singularly successful, and while it remains so, there is a better chance for new arrivals. If in a year they are found to be a satisfactory and useful addition to the force, it may become a matter of consideration for my successor and his Council whether it might not be desirable to raise the number of Scotch recruits to 100.
7. Such an arrangement would no doubt remove many causes which have given to the Force an incoherent character. Thus, I find the dismissals and resignations of Europeans amounted to 28 last year, out of an average strength of 101 recruited from singularly diverse avocations. Vacancies will probably be still more this year, as several Constables were only kept on pending the arrival of the men from Scotland. Thus it