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a pension should be extended.
d, and from ten to fifteen years, that the privilege of remitting home half the pay at 4/2 should be discontinued, and since 1885 all new recruits have been engaged on these terms, although some recruits were engaged by the Brown Agents at $40 a month, they have all received since their arrival in this Colony $45, the increase being given in consideration of the longer term of service required and of the withdrawal of the privilege of remitting at par.
Amongst the subscribers of the Memorial are fifteen so recruited who are either getting all that was stipulated in their contracts, or ... ther move in the case of those who were engaged at $40. The other 44 Constables who have signed the Memorial are men who were engaged on the old terms, viz: claim to pension after ten years' service.