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2 of waste and hill, where there are but few inhabitants of any kind. The
3 Police Charges, Military and Civil, of the British Government, amount to
4 only Rupees 24,77,442 or £247,744 per annum. For such an area and
5 population the amount seems moderate.
6 24, The organization of the Police Force is gradually progressing.
7 Gaacis : The Military Police are thoroughly disciplined and
8 rganization, uniform,
9 ‘and equipment of the are hardly inferior to the best Irregular Troops.
10 nee For the Civil Police, including the Regular Estab-
11 lishment, the Town and Village Watchmen, a standard uniform and
12 equipments are prescribed. At every Police post and village throughout
13 these Territories the Police are dressed and armed alike. The dress
14 is plain, of a drab colour ; the arms are asword and carbine for the Regular
15 Police and a staff and spear for the Watchmen. Such _ externals
16 of course conduce to the maintenance of system. The State is put
17 to no expense thereby, for every man finds his own uniform The
18 Regular Police are subjected to drill, and the Watchmen are inspected.
19 It is not desired to turn these men into Soldiers, but only to render
20 them physically efficient, while possessing that local knowledge and
21 aptitude which is so essential to real Police Service. Endeavors are
22 also made to infuse an esprit de corps into the Civil Police by regulating
23 their promotion and by placing checks on their dismissal, so that
24 & man on entering the Force may feel that he belongs to an incorporated
25 Service and has a fair opening for gradual advancement. In some parti-
26 cular places where the Police were formerly defective, such as Pesha-
27 wur and Mooltan, there has been a most gratifying improvement. A
28 River Police has been organized on ghe Indus to check the marauders
29 who cross the water on inflated skins. The general and permanent
30 location of the Police all over the country on the great lines of road
31 and at other posts has been completed.
32 25. The Import duties levied in Towns to pay the Watchmen continue
33 Town duties levied to 0 flourish everywhere. They are preferred by
34 pay the City Watch. the townsfolk, who will indeed tolerate “no other
35 kind of tax. This cess has now been substituted for the house tax in all
36 Towns within these Territories, and many large villages, with non-agri-
37 cultural residents, have, at their own request, been placed in this re-
38 spect, on the same footing asthe Towns. The largest amount thus levied
39 is at Umritsur, where during 1854 Rupees 49,450 or £4,945 were raised,