CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3] — Page 211

in the mind of

of a

Lith

A

for

using his arms to effect In addition

this purpose.

the Officer who ordered them

to patrol is much to blame for not having himself accompanied them

of or not having sent a European

Officer with them when

on such a

proceeding

on such

6.

duty. That the Sikhs from

their peculiar organization

look to their Commanding

Officer as

the sole authority

to whom they

are responsible

and from whom they

receive Punishment, and they

are

totally ignorant of the Forms

of English Courts of Law, the penalties they

incur from the commission of offences against that

Law.

I

am

that in

the case of a European and

under similar circumstances

the Punishment awarded would have been extremely lenient, but the ideas and habits

of

Sikhs

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