intended
the proposed rates of salary, for the Indian Police you that such approval should extend to the recommendations made
by the Retrenchment Committee in regard to bonuses and ~ pension .
I have also to invite Tour Lordship's attention to the fact that the Retrenchment Committee whilst fixing a
age for
minimum
Indian
Policemen to retire on pension
omitted
* See paragraphs 201 and 206 of their
Report.
omitted to make any
any recom. mendation in the cases
of
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Europeans and Chinese, although the Captain Superintendent of Police in paragraph 15 of his letter to the Committee of the 4th May, 1894, suggested that 45 years should be the pensionable. age for the whole Force.
In paragraph 16 of the
same letter it was also recom. mended that bonuses to ~
Europeans enlisted in the
Colony should be abolished,
but