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clined him to be either more of a policeman or 

 more of a judge. 



"It will be observed that the appeal from 

 either department in Sindh lies to an oincer, the 

 commissioner, who is equally interested in the 

 prevention or detection of crime, and in the 

 administration of justice, while he is not per- 

 sonally concerned in either way with the case 

 which may be laid before him in appeal. 



''I have found it of great advantage that an 

 officer should serve as deputy magistrate before 

 he becomes lieutenant of police : such officers 

 are always less liable than others to clash with 

 the magistrate and his subordinates. 



" Practically, if the magistrate is a reasonable 

 and zealous officer, the lieutenant of police 

 becomes to him much the same as an extra 

 assistant for police purposes; and all goes on 

 smoothly. It is chiefly when the magistrate is 

 unreasonable or indolent that the lieutenant of 

 police is obliged to look to the captain of police 

 for that support and direction which his own 

 position as a junior and subordinate officer may 

 render necessary, and which the captain of 

 police, being, like the magistrate, in direct com- 



