182 VOLUNTEER POLICE FOR PROVINCE WELLESLEY. 
population the risk of an office being abused increases with area 
over which its influence extends. It is necessary, for the con- 
venience of the officers of Government and the marshalling of 
the Volunteer Police when required to act in large numbers, that 
there should be Pénghtilus of divisions over the Katuas of villages, 
but although I have, in most cases, limited the numbers under 
them to from 100 to 159 and trust much to the Katuas to protect 
their fellow-villagers from malpractices on the part of the Péng- 
halus, the latter, if retained, will require to be carefully guided 
and watched. In the course of the selection of the heads I have 
been more and more impressed with the expediency of regarding 
the village organization as the basis and safeguard ot the system, 
and confirmed in the distrust I have long entertained of the plan 
of placing large districts under Malays of leading families. They 
acquire a degree of influence which is neither safe for the Govern- 
ment nor for the people. They ally themselves with the profes- 
sing doctors of theology. They strengthen themselves by getting 
their relatives made heads of Jumahas.* They cultivate an 
intimacy with members of the Malay royal families on the one 
side and with the native subordinates in the Government offices 
on the other. ‘This is but natural, and the influence they usually 
succeed in establishing is, on occasions, useful to Government, 
but I have hardly known one who has not yielded to the immense 
temptations so powerful a position holds out to ordinary Malays, 
among whose most prominent failing is a greediness for money, or 
money’s worth, got without toil. Dangerous as it has been found 
to employ Europeans of the lower ranks as Police Inspectors among 
a Malay population, | believe that there is a more insidious danger 
in giving to Malays the position of salaried Inspectors of the re- 
* For instance, Haji IBRAHIM, a younger brother of the Pénghtiu Bésar of 
Téluk Ayer Tawar, is the head of one of the three large Jumahas of North 
Province Wellesley. About two years ago the Pénghfilu having, very properly, 
procured the dismissal of the Kali for malpractices, it was at first intended by | 
the family and their friends that IBRAHIM should succeed him. But it was 
thought this would not look well after the part the Pénghilu had taken, and’ 
it was arranged that an old Kali, who, several years before, had resigned the 
office, should resume it for a time, until Haji IsRAHIM could be installed with 
less risk of proveking invidious remarks. A daughter of the Pénghflu, for- 
merly married to the Province Land Surveyor, AMIN UD DiN (an elder bro- 
ther of the present Assistant Surveyor SAIBOO) and afterwards to a Malay ~ 
gentleman of Kedah in the Raja’s service, about a yearagoeloped with Tunku 
JUSOH, a brother of the Raja and Governor of the District behind Province 
Wellesley, who brought her to Penang. With much difficulty a divorce was 
arranged, and she is now the wife of the Tunku, thus cementing the intimacy 
that has always subsisted between the royal family and that of the Pénghtlu, 
