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2. I am in receipt of your No. 184, of the 7th instant, and have authorized Mr. Creagh to visit other districts, at his own expense, to select such men as may be willing to proceed to Hong-Kong, and appear suitable for Police duty in that province.
From Major G. Hutchinson, Inspector General of Police, Punjab, to C. V. Creagh Esquire No. 540, dated 11th February 1867.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your demi-official communication of the 7th instant, and to forward for your perusal a copy of a letter this day addressed to the Secretary to Government regarding passage rates from Calcutta to Hong-Kong.
2. I return the original letter of the Hong-Kong Colonial Secretary to your address, after preserving a copy for record in my office.
3. I authorize you to visit, at your own expense, any district in the Punjab to which you may find it necessary to proceed in order to obtain recruits for the Hong-Kong Police.
4. You must report your departure, destination and probable period of absence to Colonel Tronson, to whom a copy of this letter has been furnished.
From Major G. Hutchinson, Inspector General of Police, Punjab, to the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Lahore Circle No. 817 dated 13th March 1867.
I have the honor to forward for your perusal a copy of the correspondence regarding the enlistment of policemen for service in China.
2. I request you will, after preserving a copy, pass on this letter and enclosures to Major Bamfield.
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3. Mr. Creagh has been authorized to enter into provisional arrangements with men who may be willing to go to Hong-Kong on the terms mentioned in the enclosures. request that District Superintendents may be instructed to render him duc facilities for making offers to the men; but an undue number must not be allowed to volunteer from any one district, or that district would be crippled from having a number of recruits.
4. The men should have the terms of service very distinctly explained to them, and be given explicitly to understand that by volunteering they forfeit their past service and commence afresh.
From T. H. Thornton Esquire, Secretary to Government Punjab, to Major G. Hutchinson, Inspector General of Police Punjab, No. 423 dated 16th March 1867.
In continuation of No. 184 dated 7th ultimo, forwards for communication to Mr. Creagh, Assistant District Superintendent of Police, Mooltan, copy of a letter No. 2247 dated 6th instant, from the Government of India, Home Department, with enclosures, regard- ing the terms of service of the Sikh Policemen required for the Hong-Kong Police, and requests that he will have the arrangements at once proceeded with in the spirit of the instructions received from the Government of India, and that he will report what arrange- ments he recommends in respect to Mr. Creagh.
From B. C. Bayley Esquire, Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department, to T. II Thornton Esquire, Secretary to Government, Punjab, No. 2247, dated 6th March 1867.
In continuation of my letter of the 7th January, No. 127, I am directed to for- ward, for the information of His Honor the Lieutenant Governor, the annexed copy of a letter * with its enclosures, from the Hon'ble the Colonial Secretary at Hong-Kong, which affords the information asked for by the Govern- ment of India in regard to the terms of service of the Sikh Policemen required for that Colony.
No. 51, dated the 28th January.
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2. These terms appear to the Governor General in Council to be generally reasonable and sufficient, with the exception, perhaps, of the condition of forfeiture of return-passage in the event of the dismissal of a Policeman for grave misconduct. His Excellency in Council desires that these conditions may be most fully and carefully explained to the men before they leave the Punjab; and if they are willing, after having been made to understand them thoroughly, to engage themselves for service in China, the Governor General in Council requests that His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor will be good enough to take the necessary steps for enlisting them, and for forwarding them to the port of embarkation,-timely infor- mation being sent to the Government of India of the probable date of their arrival in Calcutta.
3. With regard to paragraphs 8 and 9 of the Colonial Secretary's letter, I am directed to say that the Governor General in Council would be glad if His Honor could make any arrangement, in communication with Mr. Creagh, that would meet the wishes of the Hong-Kong Government, as there can be no doubt that the Punjab Police would be more easily managed and be more efficient, in a foreign country, when under the control of one of their own officers who can speak their language, and "is acquainted with their customs and prejudices."
4. I am to add, with reference to paragraph 4 of your letter of the 24th January, which has been forwarded for the consideration of the Hong-Kong Government, that the question of enabling the policemen to assign a portion of their pay to their families in India will be settled in the Financial Department on the completion of all the other arrangements.
From the Colonial Secretary, Hong-Kong, to E. C. Bayley, Esquire, Secretary to the Government of India, No. 51, dated the 28th January 1867.
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt this day of your Despatch No. 126 of the 7th instant, referring to His Excellency Sir Richard MacDonnell's letter of the 30th November last, addressed to His Excellency the Governor General requesting assistance to procure a body of 100 Sikh Police for service in Hong-Kong.
2. I have laid that communication before His Excellency, and am now desired to express his acknowledgements to the Governor General for his readiness to afford all practi- cable aid consistent with the circumstances of the case.
3. Sir Richard MacDonnell regrets that he was unable to make an earlier communi- cation on the subject, but he had been previously obliged to consider the comparative advan- tages offered by the various possible means of recruiting the Police Force, whether from Bombay, the West Indies, or North China.
4. On determining that the best apparent chance of obtaining the class of men re- quired lay in the direction of Scind, be felt it expedient to institute some preliminary inqui- ries as to the chances of procuring recruits there, with the sanction of the Indian Government. 5. All these inquiries necessarily occupied considerable time, and finally the Gover- nor deemed it best to rely altogether on the good offices of the Indian Government to assist this Colony in a matter so critical, and he is happy to find that the result has justified him in so doing.
6. I now proceed to answer your inquiries seriatim:--
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