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"granted the privilege of remitting half their pay to India at the rate of $44 to $100.
In justification of my action in taking this course without previous reference to you, I venture to repeat, what I perhaps did not sufficiently emphasize in my former despatch, that I was placed in a difficult position by the absolute refusal of a large draft of recruits, who arrived from India on the same day on which your despatch W:57 was received, to enlist in the Force unless some such privilege as that in question was conceded to them, nor could they be induced to enlist pending a reference of their case to you.
To have turned these recruits adrift would have left the Police Force seriously undermanned, besides entailing on