244 FOREST LIFE AND SPORT IN INDIA 
ance of a system—it required the filling in of details ; 
and this caused reference to Local Governments, and 
prolonged correspondence that was not completed 
till the issue of the Secretary of State’s orders in 
1906. The result was a marked improvement in 
prospects, but not contentment; for though the 
pay was raised so that each officer attained a 
salary of £1,000 a year in the twentieth year 
of his service, while his average pay amounted to 
about £600 during that period, yet administra- 
tive officers were not placed on an _ equality 
with those of corresponding responsibility in other 
departments, while the head of the department 
received no increase of his maximum salary. Such 
matters, together with those affecting pension, will 
no doubt be righted when future representations are 
sympathetically considered. The fact that the rules 
of the so-called ‘‘ Uncovenanted” Services were 
originally drafted with the intention of recruiting 
these services in India from Indians, and that they 
are now for the most part manned by officers 
appointed under covenant in England, who possess 
as good an education and attainments as any in the 
country, must some day be more fully acknowledged ; 
in short, it is not so much equality in emoluments 
that is aimed at, but adequate payment for the 
higher attainments now insisted upon, and thereby 
a more practical distinction between the men for 
whom the ‘“Uncovenanted” Service rules were 
drafted and those who are now invited to enter that 
service from Universities, colleges, and other institu- 
tions, in England. 
It was inevitable that great improvements should 
