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engaging constables for Short Briods during which they will be Probation and, if found to perform their Duties satisfactorily, they then be enrolled in the Regular

Force.

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The Ordinance under which

the Police Dorce is established (N.9 of 1862) provides for the enlistment of

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for a Period of Five years, they

at certain specified salaries, and become entitled to a Bouns and a

Pension.

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Some of them occasionally turn out worthles constables and are a Burden to the Colony. Under this new Ordinance it is

believed that a meet useful auxiliary Force will be rapidly collected

at a small cost to the Colony, which will form an excellent " nucleus " from which to select efficient men to fill the Vacancies in the Regular Force. It will be observed

that men enlisted under this

Ordinance will, in the event of their being drafted into the regular Dore, have the advoitage of their time of Service in the

Force, in the Computation

auxiliary Force,

for.

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Bonns or à Pension.

The Ordinance was

pased with unanimous approval,

and

There is

every

reason

to believe