VOLUNTEER POLICE FOR PROVINCE WELLESLEY. 201 
altogether, or, if saluted by him in the usual mode, returning the courtesy by 
the least respectful of the several modes of salutations practiced by Mahomedans. 
Minute on Mr. J. R. Logan’s Seheme for forming a Volunteer 
Village Police in Province Wellesley. 
The subject of a Volunteer Village Police has frequently 
engaged my attention, and I have often discussed the question 
with Mr. Logax, who has long advocated its adoption in the pub- 
lic prints. The plan seems peculiarly well suited to our posi- 
tion in Province Wellesley, which possesses an irregular jungle 
frontier, where marauders can aiways find shelter and conceal- 
ment and can threaten our villages at all points with perfect im- 
punity so far as the Municipal Force is concerned. ‘The whole of 
the N. E. and E. frontier may be said to be entirely without 
Police protection, and any scheme that promises to enlist the 
assistance of the villagers in aid of order and to supply the place 
of a Police Establishment should, in my opinion, be cordially 
welcomed and supported by Government. 
A village Police will not only be useful against external marau- 
ders, but also in the case of internal commotions caused by the 
Secret Societies, when, sometimes, large gangs roam over the 
country uncontrolled, until a hasty collection has been made of 
the rural population, which, if properly organised on the system 
proposed by Mr. Logan, would certainly prevent any serious 
collection of rioters, or at any rate be well prepared to cope with 
them if they should venture to take the field. There is another 
incidental advantage attending the establishment of a Village 
Police, which would be of vast benefit in giving a support to 
numbers of Malay and other inhabitants who are now intimidated 
into joining the Secret Societies by their isolation. If they could 
count on the support of the village chiefs and their brethren as- 
sociated with them in the service, they might bid defiance to all 
threats of the heads of Jumahas or Hoeys who would be afraid 
to play an open game where they might be speedily brought to 
account. 
If I remember rightly, Mr. Logan had gained the adhesion in 
the North Division of the Province of about 3,500 Malavs and 
others in favour of his proposed plan. I am surprised and great- 
ly regret that a trial was not made of it. The expense attending 
it was trivial, while it supplied a palpable want which has little 
chance of being otherwise met. 
