180 VOLUNTEER POLICE FOR PROVINCE WELLESLEY. 
even of those portions that are in the vicinity of Police Stations, 
for it cannot be expected that half a dozen Policemen can beat 
off or arrest armed bands of 20 to 70 men unless they are aided 
by the Hue and Cry, which has been proved by the recent gang 
robberies in the south of the Province as well as by many in 
former years in the north, to be wholly ineffective when the Posse 
Comitatus is not thus organized. The mere knowledge that the 
villagers are everywhere prepared to resist gang robberies will, 
it may be anticipated, have the effect of making them less frequent. 
I intended to arrange with the Muda villagers a system of signals 
by beat of wooden drums such ag are used by the Police of Java, 
but I think it would be better if you were to introduce such a 
system for general adoption both by the regular and the Volun- 
teer Police. 
I have the honour to be 
Sir, 
Province Wellesley, Your most obdt. servant, 
- 15th October, 1867. J. R. LOGAN. 
ows 
The Hon’ble Colonel Anson, 
Tieut.- Governor, 
P. W. Island. 
Sir, 
1. Referring to the Memo. which I submitted to you on 
20th August last on the subject of the organization of the Malay 
villagers of the Muda and Kreh districts, under headmen, for 
their mutual protection against gang robbers and other purposes, 
and to your Memo. thereon, dated 30th August, approving of the 
experiment and requesting that I would name the Pénghilus to 
be appointed, I have now the honour to forward lists of Pénghtlus 
and rolls of the volunteers... Acting on your suggestion, the 
Pénghilus and Katuas have been appointed “ additional constables ” 
under Section 21 of the Police Act of 1856 on a formal applica- _ 
tion made by the villagers and myself to the Commissioner of 
Police. 
2. Instead of selecting the headmen myself, I thought the 
better course, for reasons which I shall presently give, would 
be to visit the different villages, talk over the matter with the 
Malays, arrange with them the most convenient division of the. 
eroups of population into Kampongs or villages and of these mto 
Dairahs-or districts, and then leave it to the villagers to name 
