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to the advantage of the colony to...

enlist men to let it be understood that re-enlistment

for five years only and

at the end of that period would be the exception and not the

6.

rule.

I think also that the bonus which is now paid at the expiration of each term of 5. years service should be discontinued for all future enlistments, and that a return passage should be

-paid only when a constable actually

home; or a goes home;

вожно

if

he

chooses

chooses to remain in the Colony

after retering. The Captain Superintendent of Police however does not agree

with

me as to this recommendation, as

will be

seen

by reference to his lettere annexed, though he approves

of the proposed extension of the period qualifying for a pension.

The last and not the

7.

least important recommendation that I have to make is that no ~

married constables should in

future be enlisted, and that

constables who choose to

marry.

should