Mutiny records correspondence

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13IUTINT RECORBS.

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3their own corps, under officers whom I shall select for the

4purpose. They will bo taken entirely from the lines of their

5corps and encamped by themselves in a convenient spot near the

6Artillerv Lines.

770 . . From Captain B. R. James, Ofg. Secretary to the Chief

8Commissioner, Punjab, to Brigadier Innes, Co,nmanding

9at Ferozepore,—dated Raxeulpindee, 3rd June 1857.

10I AM directed to inform you that a report has reached tho

11Chief Commissioner of certain disbanded sepoj'S at Ferozepore

12having demanded the liberation of their comrades who are im-

13prisoned in the jail.

142. Such a demand, after tho circumstances which liave

15taken place, appears to the Chief Commissioner to amount to

16mutiny of an aggravated kind.

178. Notwithstanding tlmt mutiny, arson, and every mili¬

18tary crime has been committed at Ferozepore, he is not aware

19of a single man having been capitally punished. Ho consid¬

20ers this line of policy to be fatal.

214. The Right Hon^ble the Governor-General has in¬

22structed the Chief Commissioner to act in this crisis with¬

23out reference to Government; and, as his representative in the

24Punjab, he calls upon you to put in force the Act of the 1 Ith

25ultimo, and to try by Court Martial the mutineers now in

26prison and those who liave dared to demand their liberation.

27And any men subsequently acUng in a similar manner should

28be dealt with in .the same way.

295, The Mutiny Act prescribes the punishment of death

30for such ofFfmees, and if such sentence be pas.scHl by the court,

31and confirmed by yourself, it should be carried out on the

32spot- It is such men as these who tvro hamiKTing our arrange¬

33ments, and, in the event of troops being required to act, will

34occupy their attention.

35Instructioug

36to Brifradicr

37lunos for tho

38puuislmieut

39of mutmoors

40at Perozoporo.