VOLUNTEER POLICE FOR PROVINCE WELLESLEY. ily gas 
wise disqualified. They have no systematic arrangements among 
themselves and with the villagers for united action in emergencies. 
The effect of this was seen during the recent disturbances in 
town, when a requisition by the Lieutenant-Governor to the.De- 
puty ‘Commissioner of Police to send 300 Malays to town under 
the command of one of the Pénghilu Bésar and to hold other 300 
in readiness at the coast villages under the other Ptnghfilu Bésar 
was answered by only about 120 being sent over without the Ping- 
hfilu Bésar, but with so many Pénghilu Mukims that among the 
men from my neighbourhood there wasa Pénghtlu for every seven, 
while some Pénghi lus had only one or two followers. The Pénghilu 
Mukims should have been left, as was intended, in their villages 
to watch them and send in more men to the Péng hilu Bésar. The 
Malays were everywhere, so far as | went among them, willing and 
ready to obey the order of Government, but they were kept ‘back, 
as they alleged, by orders from the local heads of the paid Police, 
the Pénghilu Bésar, who seem to have considered it necessary to 
keep some 10,000 male adults at their homes, or marching in bands 
up and down the country, to look after a few hundred Macao 
coolies. 
The Malays on my lands are ae by an article in their leases 
“to conform to such regulations as the landlord may, from time 
to time, make, in aid of the observance and enforcement of the law 
and for sanitary purposes within the limits of the estate.’ These 
men and the Malays of the villages and ampongs adjoining have 
asked me to arrange with them a plan for their protection against 
gang robbers and for their more systematic action on the occur- 
rence of disturbances among the Chinese, but | do not think that 
any such plan could be efficiently carried out without the sanction 
of Government. If it should be thought that my knowledge of the 
inhabitants and constant visits to different parts of the districts 
along the Muda and the Kreh, would be useful in introducing and 
bringing into working order such a plan, my services are entirely 
at the disposal of the Lieutenant-Governor. 
I would suggest the following :— 
Plan for the Police Protection of the Muda Districts. 
The experiment of a Volunteer Police to be triedin the Districts 
staiie the Muda and the Kreh, which are at present without Police 
and are with ditheulty accessible by the Police from their distance 
from Police Stations and want of roads. 
