366 MAJOR W. HODSON. 



spoken of by the moonshee certainly occurred, but it dated 

 from the 29th of August, when Lieutenant Hodson went 

 on leave ; and the pay statement and notice of retrench- 

 ment only having been received in February 1854, Lieu- 

 tenant Hodson knew nothing about it till that date. His 

 pay was only then held in abeyance for a confirmation of 

 his leave. 



37. With regard to the three sums claimed by Nujjuf 

 AUee, two claims seem to have been grounded in truth and 

 were settled. The third, for a sum of 270 rupees, would 

 not, I think, be gained in a civil court ; but were it so, the 

 money would have to be recovered from Dr Lyell, to whom 

 it has been paid, and to whom it appears to have been due 

 by account. 



38. Nujjuf Alice's fourth allegation sounds serious ; but 

 it amounts to this, that proper records of the estates of de- 

 ceased men and deserters and of fines had not been kept 

 up, so that the money received remained in the undefined 

 balance of the chest, while dismounted sowars had, until 

 orders were received for a different course, invariably re- 

 ceived full pay. In both these instances all that can be 

 said is that Lieutenant Hodson had failed to improve upon 

 the hitherto prevailing custom of the regiment. It will be 

 remembered that one of Feroze Khan's causes of discontent, 

 mentioned by him to Moonshee Nujjuf AUee, was that he 

 heard that he was to receive dismounted pay for the time 

 he had been looking for a horse, which had not hitherto 

 been the custom ; as it was, I believe he was about the 

 last that received full pay for the period during which he 

 was dismounted under the old system. During Lieutenant 

 Hodson's command the casualties were very few in number. 

 While Nujjuf Allee was in charge of the accounts, (6) six 

 casualties by decease and desertion occurred, and (7) seven 

 instances of fines, some of which latter were remitted. 



39. It is hardly necessary to notice the fifth point, as in 

 the only instance in which Nujjuf Allee particularised an 

 entry as not his own, the competent natives who had con- 

 demned his book before the court of inquiry decided dis- 



