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native or European, may be, no native suitor will 

 dream of bringing- any suit into Court, in which the 

 presiding- authority is supposed to have the slightest 

 personal interest. No amount of argument no 

 number of examples, will convince a native, that a 

 judg-e, under any circumstances, could decide a case 

 contrary to his bias, much less his personal interest. 

 This certainly is a serious perhaps a fatal objection 

 to Civil Servants holding- property which is liable to 

 be the subject of dispute in courts over which they 

 preside ; but it is plain that it applies equally to 

 covenanted and uncovenanted, European and Native 

 Servants. Its cure lies, like that of many others to 

 which India is heir, in education, especially female 

 education ; and until education has done its work, 

 existing- restrictions can hardly be removed. The 

 objection, it is true, applies only to^the district in 

 which a civil Officer is employed ; but, as the service 

 is at present constituted, it never would do to hamper 

 the Government, as to the employment of its civil 

 Servants in whatever part of a presidency their 

 services may be most required. 



At the same time, looking- at the question from 

 the Capital, and many other points of view, it seems 

 to me, that it is extremely desirable to encourag-e 

 by all legitimate means, the acquirement of property 

 in the soil, by both military and civil Servants in 

 India ; and to attain the desired end, that property 

 must be acquired while they are in the service of 

 Government, not when they have left it. Men 



