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would satisfy the Petitioners.

3.

It has now been represented to me

by the Acting Captain Superintendent of Police that the

difficulty caused by the enhanced cost of food to the

Indian Police, has not been overcome and that owing to the

increased and increasing cost of food a third class Indian

Constable has no balance left out of his pay when the

deductions for rations have been made, since he always

insists on having the full amount of half of his pay set

aside for remittance. Such a condition is obviously un-

-desirable.

4.

The last readjustment of the

emoluments of the Indian Police was made in 1901 as a

result of the representations made in Sir Henry Blake's

Gov 19844 Despatch No. 179 of the 8th. May in that year. It was then

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so arranged that a third class Indian constable should

have 75 cents a month, and a second class Indian Constable

$1.50 a month, to spend after paying for his rations and

setting aside half of his pay for the half-yearly remit-

-tance. It is not obligatory that the full amount of half

of his pay should be remitted, but as has been previously

explained the Indian Police regard it as a right to remit

to