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rates of salary of the Indian Police
because I was not clear how far you
yourself approved of the other recom-
mendations.
3. Assuming, however, as I do
from your despatch under acknowledgment
!
that you are in general accord with the
retrenchment committee and with the
Captain Superintendent, I have already
informed you in my telegram of the 19th
instant, that, as regards pensions and
bonuses, you should be guided by my
despatch No.279 of the 14th of Decem-
ber 1892, to the terms of which I still
adhere.
4. I am not prepared to insist
upon compulsory commutation of pensions
in any case, as suggested in the 189th
and 201st paragraphs of the retrenchment
committee's report.
5.
I accept the proposed scale
of