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fectly successful as to have required little alter- 

 ation even in the details. 



'' In the Ionian Islands also, I believe, he 

 first enforced his disarming Act, by forbidding 

 persons to carry arms without a licence. The 

 wisdom of this measure, and the absolute neces- 

 sity to any efficient system of protective police, 

 is now very generally acknowledged, though 

 two years ago its ]Dracticability, or at all events 

 its expediency, would have been very generally 

 contested in every Province in India. It 

 apjoears to me quite essential to such a system 

 as the Sindh police, and was one of the first 

 measures Sir Charles adopted after the conquest. 

 It is to be observed that he never ordered or 

 permitted any search after arms. 



'' The separation of the police from the magis- 

 terial authority, and their independence of each 

 other, are the features of the Sindh system which 

 at present strike most Indian officers as open to 

 objection. Few deny that, if the officer who is 

 to prevent crime, and to pursue and detect the 

 criminal, be separate from him who is to sit in 

 judgment, and if necessary to convict and 

 punish, it is probable that more crimes will be 

 prevented and detected, and that justice will be 



