or if they
then re-enlist for another 5 years at the end of that period they become
entitled to pensions irrespective of age or health; this it is clear that so long the Army is to be recruited in England, from efficient Englishmen, there must be
a regular heavy charge for pension, there are already 130 Englishmen in the Police estimates, Sir R. M. wished to see this number further increased : the Colony will have to bear this expense with little aid of the Special Fund: the total cost of its Present Police (and it will be inefficient ) is upwards of $189,000, a large portion of the Total Revenue of the Colony, & larger sum than is spent by either Ceylon or the Straits, nearly as large as that spent by Mauritius, all more populous and wealthier Colonies. Lord Kimberley has sanctioned the accumulated gambling fund being applied to meet the expenses caused by the increased Police
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I meant 1283, the efficiency of our police force depends mainly on its being well manned
"447 Force"; it would be more convenient, if some arrangement could be founded on the principle of the funding fund exists, rather than Casual applications such as this for expenses which in their nature must regularly recur should be constantly entertained.
The estimated expense of the whole force for 1871 was $172,000, for 1872 (including additional Europeans) $188,000; actual expenditure is always rather less than the estimate; so I would suggest that some sum (say $168,000 or $175,000) should be deemed a normal expenditure for the force as in the Estimates, as in Army estimates, which is often little short but never exceeded.
JRR
Any sum actually spent more than this should be allowed to be defrayed from the Special Fund; in this way expenses would be partly borne by the Special Fund, while on the other hand no extravagant additions could be proposed to the stories of Police Officers without being charged on the tax-payers; such an arrangement would