156 Appendix. 



13. Damage done to arms, &c., when not on duty, is to be made 

 good by the Member in whose possession they may be. 



14. Drill will commence on the I5th of October of each year and 

 last till the I5th of March. Within these dates members will be 

 liable to be called out after the I5th of March to the I5th of October. 



The Drill Instructor will proceed to certain convenient localities in 

 the Mofussil, where members, residing within a circle of ten miles, 

 will have to attend. 



15. For all ordinary expenses, such as clearing and protecting the 

 Drill and Practice grounds, keeping Arms, Target, Bugles, &c., in 

 repair, each Member to pay a monthly subscription of Rs. 2. 



1 6. A copy of these rules to be furnished to each Member of the 

 Corps. 



(Sd.) JAMES FORLONG." 



To this loyal petition the Government replied in terms of sanction 

 and compliment, under date I7th September 1862 ; the only item in 

 which the Rules forwarded did not obtain the unqualified sanction of 

 the Government was the Terry's Rifle, which, not being in store, the 

 Corps were supplied with Sharpe's Breech-loading Carbine. 



In 1870, the Officer Commanding the Corps brought to the notice of 

 Government that there was a strong feeling amongst members in 

 favour of carrying the Lance instead of the Arms which they had hitherto 

 borne. To this the Secretary to the Government of India replied 

 through the Bengal Government as follows : 



" From Colonel H. K. BURNE, Secretary to the Government of 

 India, Military Department, to the Secretary to the Government 

 of Bengal, General Department, (No. 513, dated Simla, the 

 26th July 1870.) 



SIR, With reference to your letter No. 655, dated Qth March 1870, 

 bringing to notice the wish of the Members of the Behar Mounted 

 Volunteer Rifle Corps to be allowed to carry Lances instead of their 

 present Arms, I am directed to acquaint you, for the information o 

 His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor, that the Right Hon'ble the 

 Governor-General in Council does not consider the proposed change 

 would at all conduce to the efficiency of the Corps. His Excellency 

 in Council considers that the Behar Volunteers are much better armed, 

 as at present, with Enfield carbines and swords than they would be 

 with lances and swords, as, if ever they are called upon to act, it will 

 be very possibly as infantry, and not as cavalry, and lances would, 



