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inspectors, and four Sergeants, Europeans,

und. I imagine

donia a

it wou

arrangement

ld

be necessary for granting them pensions after a term of 10 years' service, and allowing them have to visit their families

periodically-

suggestion is the best and safest in every

respect, if it be not open to objections with which. I am.

of

14.

as is the custom, in the Indiase

f, day evera

army,

every

three

y

years,

when they

: would require to be conveyed to and from

-

Ave

Madras at Government expenser - 2:5 mon (after the 1st three years) being permitted this rudulgence annually. might perhaps under such- arrangements

better description of Indians than

obtain

we

Q

in ber

of

have at present Police, all whom have been obtained from the shipping,

and are of an inferior grade. Accompanying

is d

Schedule

showing

the cost to

3 Government of this my second proposal,

J

which I have - submitted in compliance

with the wishes of Your Lordships, feeling at the same time that the first

2°5

κατια

acquainted potions

Your Lordship will observe

that the 100 additional Policemen

fully as much

would cost fully

as a

Company:

of Rifles, and as there would also be additional Company of Europican Froops,

if Policemen be employed, I would urgently recommend the detention Detachment of the Rifles, instead.

15.

an

of a

In conclusion I key to inform Your & Lordship that the present Military Establishment crets the brown £63,894.3.2

per

annuin.

proposed. by

The reduced. Establishment

me in the first instance,

and shown in Schedule A, amounts to £49, 483 - 14.11, tarchy exhibiting a

saving of

£

14,410.8.3; and my

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