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Servants holding property which is liable to be the 

 subject of dispute in courts over which they 

 preside : but 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; 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 Officr 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 encourage 

 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 Go- 

 vernment, not when they have left it. Men while 

 so situated may invest their savings in agricultural 

 and other speculations, and when they have made 

 sufficient progress to be enabled to see their way, 

 they may retire from the service of Government, 

 with the view of settling on their estates and 

 managing them. But, should they be prohibited 

 from investing their savings in this manner, they will 



