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Such certainly are the military and civil servants of 

 Government ; and these servants, and this country, 

 are under the greatest obligations to our late deeply 

 lamented Viceroy, for the consistency and zeal with 

 which he advocated the policy of allowing- the former 

 to acquire property in the soil. In regard to Military 

 Officers there seemed neither reason nor justice in 

 maintaining 1 a restriction of the kind, for after the 

 transfer of India to the Crown, Military Officers 

 serving 1 in India, should naturally preserve the pri- 

 vileges as British subjects they enjoy elsewhere. In 

 regard to Civil Officers too, there seemed some slight 

 inconsistency in the prohibition. All over the world, 

 it is especially land-holders, as those most deeply 

 interested in the maintenance of order, that Govern- 

 ments endeavour to enlist in the magistracy and 

 other similar departments of the Service of the State. 

 Lord Canning- had long- been of opinion that it was 

 a serious defect in our Indian system, that it did not 

 admit of such Zemindars as the Raja of Burdwan, 

 and other less wealthy land- holders, in some way 

 taking- part in the Government of the Country ; and 

 as a beginning* he invested certain talooqah-dars in 

 Oude and the Punjab, with magisterial powers. In 

 the spirit of this policy, also, the Secretary of State 

 added native Members, large landed proprietors, to 

 the Council of the Governor-General. It was dis- 

 tinctly ordered, again, that the restrictions regarding 

 the holding of property in the soil, were not to be 

 made applicable to the native and uncovenanted; but 



