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The guard will be armed with the medium Snider rifle,'the police with the short Snider rifle, which is much more handy than the medium size for jungle work. Both guard and police will carry the ordinary bayonet. The sword bayonet, usually fixed to the short rifle, is not liked by natives.

15. With respect to the pay of the force, I recommend that the pay of the superin- tendent be 83,000 per annum, that of the assistant superintendent 81,800 per annum, and that of the inspectors 8900 per annum.

The rates of pay proposed for the police force are shown in Appendix herewith. They are in excess of those given in the Straits Settlements service, but I am of opinion that it may be necessary to offer this inducement to men to enter the force. I propose to enrol them on an engagement for two years, a pension of one fifth of their pay being given after 10 years' service. The annual estimate for the force as shown in the Appendix amounts to $58,500. This will be exclusive of a sum of $27,720 per annum which will be required for the guard, so that the total expenditure per annum for the police service will be $86,220, i.e. about double the amount which is already expended upon police service in Larut.

This will no doubt be a heavy charge, under the present circumstances of the revenue of Perak, but I do not see how it can be avoided for some time to come.

16. In the Appendix I have stated the composition and rates of pay of the guard.

I propose in future to enrol the men of this force on a three years' engagenient, a free passage to India being provided at the termination of that period. A bonus will be given to men willing to re-engage, and after 10 years' approved service I would

propose to give them a pension of one third of their pay. If a man be killed on service, a bonus of six months' pay to be given to his relatives.

17. I have now reported fully to your Lordship the views which I have arrived at, concerning the strength, composition, distribution, organisation, and equipment of the guard and police; and acting in pursuance of your Lordship's desire that the troops should be withdrawn from Perak as soon as possible, I am taking measures for forming this body, in order to relieve the military detachments when practicable. I have already made arrangements to relieve at an early date the detachment of troops at Blanja, by a detachment of Seikhs, who, in turn will be relieved by Malay police when that body is organised. I can also make arrangements, as I have already informed your Lordship in my telegram of 16th September, for the return of the second battery of Artillery to India forthwith. After Blanja, the next station from whence the military will be withdrawn is Kinta. The removal of the military detachments from other stations should be effected gradually, and guard and police substituted, according as the organi- sation the latter is accomplished.

18. It may perhaps be remarked that the numbers of police and guard which I have proposed are small, when regarded in relation to the strength of the military detach- inents now in Perak, altogether about 640 strong, added to the existing Seikh police, chiefly in Larut, and about 350 in number.

As I have already informed your Lordship, however, a great number of these last are of low caste and inferior character, and I propose only to keep the best of them to form the Resident's guard. As regards the strength of the several military detachments, I think that, under existing circumstances, it is in excess of what is requisite; but irrespective of objections raised by the Major-General commanding to a reduction in numbers of any of the detachments, there is no doubt at present a difficulty in arranging for the accommodation of additional troops to any considerable extent in these settlements.

All things considered, I am of opinion that the force I have proposed will fully suffice for the maintenance of order and the support of the Government of the State. The people of Perak are friendly to us, and the Rajabs are not likely to be hostile. Most of the malcontent chiefs have been removed from thence on account of evidence against them of participation in the late outbreak; it is probable that these will not again return, and I have no reason to apprehend disturbances.

19. In this Despatch I have as yet confined my proposal to the State of Perak as being the most important, and that upon which the arrangements for the withdrawal of the additional troops in the Straits mainly depend.

As regards Salangore, no troops have ever been sent there. A body of about 200 Malay police, under a European Superintendent formerly in the 10th Regiment, already exists there, and suffices for all requirements.

With respect, however, to Sungie Ujong, and the adjoining States of Sri Menanti and Jumpole, a force of about 150 infantry, including a detachment of artillery, has been quartered in those States. I found a detachment of troops stationed in Sungie

Ujong on my arrival in this Colony, and when the disturbances occurred last year I was obliged to increase it. Subsequently, as your Lordship is aware, I found it necessary to place detachments in Sri Menanti and Jumpole.

The surrender of Tunku Antar has, however, decidedly tended to the restoration of order in those States, and I am happy to inform your Lordship that the Datu Moar, another of the principal hostile chiefs, and who, I am informed, was the main adviser of Tunku Antar in his attack upon Sungie Ujong, has also quite recently submitted. This Datu states:-" And the information is corroborated from other sources, that the mal- " contents are now confined to a nest of robbers, only about 50 strong, at a place called

Emas, near Jumpole."

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I have therefore withdrawn the detachment, about 50 strong, from Jumpole, and for the present I have substituted a body of police there for the protection of the district. I soon hope to be able also to withdraw the detachment from Sri Menanti, but I expect that for some time to come it will be necessary to retain a small body of troops in Sungie Ujong.

20. I am considering the question of our position with respect to the States adjacent to Sungie Ujong, as requested in your Lordship's Despatch, No. 196, of 19th August,' but whatever the policy to be adopted may be, I do not anticipate that there will be any necessity for the maintenance of a large body of police for service in those States. I will report further on this point.

21. As regards the troops to be hereafter stationed in the Straits, I consider that in order that a sufficient force may be available to furnish detachments to meet contin- gencies which might render necessary the employment of troops in the Peninsula, the one regiment quartered in these Settlements should not be less than 1,000 strong, and the battery of artillery should be kept up to its full strength.

I have, &c. (Signed)

The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon,

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&c.

&c.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS.

APPENDIX.

POLICE FORCE.

District.

Stations.

Object of stations.

Force to be stationed.

Total.

Cost par

Bemarki.

annum

Coast stations

Larut

Inland do.

Blanja

-

Qualla Kangsa

Kinta

Prevention of smug- gling. Collection of excise dues. Mainly to keep order Amongst large Chinese mining population.

Qualla Kangsa Residency and gene-

Bandar Bahru

ral purposes.

Central station be- tween Qualla Kangsa and Ban- dar Babru, Sup- native port of authority. Chinese mining population in neighbourhood. Support by native authority. Assistant, residency, and general pur- poses. Chinese

population.

mining

Custom house at mouth of Perak river.

85 non-commission-

ed officers and

men. 165 non-commission-

ed officers

men.

and

60 non-commission-

ed officers and

40 non-commission-

men.

ed officers and

men.

1 assistant superin- tendent, 50 non- commissioned off- cers and men.

1 inspector, 50 non- commissioned offi- cers and men. 80 non-commission-

ed officers and

men. 20 non-commission-

ed officers and

men.

Batang,

Pa-

Bandar

dang, and

Bru

Bidor.

Kota Stia.

• No. 57, of Eastern No. 20.

sioned

officers

and men.

1 inspector,

1 aset, superintendent,

100 non-commission- 1 inspector,

1 asat. supt.,

2 inspectors,

ed officers and men. 150 non-commissioned officers 250 non-commis- and men.

29,282

18,144

11,124

$68,500

The superintendent to be the superintendent of the Resident's guard.

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