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2 and during 1855 Rupees 53,265 or £5,326. It has been explained in
3 former Reports that the tax, after paying the Watchmen, yields a surplus
4 for local improvements. Elsewhere it will be seen what large sums
5 “have been thus obtained at the two Capitals Lahore and Umritsur.
6 26. The disarming edict throughout the Punjab still remains in
7 The public’ carrying of force. Arms now are nowhere to be found.
8 arms prohibited on the During 1855 it was deemed that the time had
9 Breer. . arrived when the wilder population on the Trans-
10 Indus Frontier, while permitted’ to possess arms in their houses for the
11 defence of their lives and property, might be prohibited from carrying
12 ' them in public, unless covered by a Pass from the Magistrate. The
13 prohibition was proclaimed and carried out with complete success in all
14 places except Kohat. Not a murmur was heard, and the result has beena
15 diminution of bloodshed and of crimes attended with wounding. In Kohat
16 our subjects are so encircled with Independent Tribes, hostile to them and
17 to the British Government, that the carrying of all arms at all times has
18 been authorized there. With a view also to aid the pacification of the
19 Frontier, the transport of Saltpetre from our Terri-
20 Transport of Saltpetre ; : ie ;
21 beyond the border pro- tories across our border is prohibited, as it was
22 Advi found that this article is used by the Independent
23 Tribes for the manufacture of gunpowder, which might at any time be
24 used against our subjects .
25 27, The Punjab Thuggee Establishment is maintained. Its imme-
26 diate superintendence is added to the duties
27 of the Captain of the Military Police for the
28 Lahore Division, A considerable nymber of Thugs (perhaps 400) are
29 still at large. But their devices are utterly confounded, and they
30 find themselves so tracked, that they cannot practise their dark | pro-
31 fession. Murder by Thugs is extremely rare. An Industrial Institution
32 for the employment of the Thug approvers and the education of their
33 children has been established at Lahore. The members of the Muzabee
34 caste, to which the Thugs belong, are kept under surveillance. A similar
35 Police supervision has been temporarily established over certain vagrant
36 and criminal Tribes, known to havé committed systematic crime in the
37 North-Western Provinces (such as Bowreahs, Sansees, Harnees, and the
38 like) ; at present they must not leave ‘their homes without passports, or
39 " tickets of leave.
40 Thuggee Establishment.
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