appointinent, receiving extra pay and allowances for the same, amounting to on the understanding.
about £300 a year,
that he should at the same time
it and
continue to perform his regimental
2.
garrison duties.
The Governor adduces among other reasons the following in support of his recommendation.
1. That the English portion of the police, which represents a remarkably fine body of men armed with rifles and sword bayonets, only require to be drilled and instructed by a Military Officer "to form a most important addition" (300) three hundred men to our garrison of about 1800 effective English troops" and (2.). That it is necessary they should be in a thorough state of Military efficiency owing to
(a) The liability to attack from piratical gangs from the neighbouring mainland China, and
(b) The increasing number and turbulent nature of the Chinese population, which contains a large admixture from the criminal masses from the neighbouring provinces of China and, like "all large Vivre Communities", are undermined by dangerous secret societies, and distracted by the animosities of rival clans and factions, which not seldom break out into open and bloody violence.
3. I entirely agree with the views of the Governor and consider that the