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rates of salary of the Indian Police

because I was not clear how far you

yourself approved of the other recom-

mendations.

3. Assuming, however, as I do

from your despatch under acknowledgment

!

that you are in general accord with the

retrenchment committee and with the

Captain Superintendent, I have already

informed you in my telegram of the 19th

instant, that, as regards pensions and

bonuses, you should be guided by my

despatch No.279 of the 14th of Decem-

ber 1892, to the terms of which I still

adhere.

4. I am not prepared to insist

upon compulsory commutation of pensions

in any case, as suggested in the 189th

and 201st paragraphs of the retrenchment

committee's report.

5.

I accept the proposed scale

of