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exceptional position of the Police Force

in regard to pensions

was not Calculated

to pramate the Public interests,

and

therefore determined to alter the

system.

I thought it advisable, harvever, to institute

an

inquiry into the pubiject-

and

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enclose copy of the Meme in which I Enclosure 3

herecorded

my

reasons

for appointing a

Commision to investigate the pubject. I

Also transmit Copy of the Pepart furnished Candles

· by that bemmision. It is chiefly compiled

i

by M. lexcil Smith then licking bolonial

Secretary

and is a

very

clear documente-

which places the subject

basis

on aw

intelligible

and quite disposes of the idea

that the distant prospect of a pension the first instance promote

does really

in th

the enlistment of good

farce.

q

men in the

The enclosed Ordinance has been

introduced to

give effect to the puggestions

of the bammision, which can be better done by thequlations hereafter to be

framed by

the

Gosemar

in banncil. Those

Regulations, therefore, when framed

and

Sanctioned, will replace the old law,

and although it

be true that

may

Section 1 of the former Ordinance

declared that a man

five years

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who had sewed

was at liberty to engage of

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himself for mother term of five years-

that privilege in the opinion of the

degisbutive launcil

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not meant

and could not be construed to overide