In a small portion of about eight hundred (800) effective English troops, (including the Battery of the Naval Artillery, and one of the Line).
A battalion of infantry
Such for this purpose, it is necessary that the European and Sikh Contingent should be regularly drilled and exercised by a Military Officer.
(2). General Sargent assures me that the pay and allowances mentioned above (amounting to rather more than £300 a year) are sufficient to secure the services of a thoroughly efficient Military Adjutant, a Captain or Senior Subaltern of the regiment in garrison for the time being. General Sargent further agrees with me that the Officer in question should continue to perform his regimental duties, which, on an average, do not occupy him for much more than two hours each day;
but that he should devote the rest of his time to the Police. Among other advantages of this arrangement, the Officer would thus form a connecting link between the Police and the Soldiers — an object of vital importance, which those who know garrison towns will agree.