OBSERVATIONS REGARDING 



ofFence can be traced to the e ail ward, through the di drills of 

 Saren znd 1'irkut. In the detailed report on the ilate of the police, dix. 

 ring the lail yeir, in the jarifdidion of the joint magiflrate of G/fes'^wr,. 

 a cafe will be found dated, in which it appeared^ from themagillrateV 

 cnquiricp, that a fraternity of gofains- bad long been eilabliffied in that 

 quarter, who Were faid to enrice travellers to fojourn at their mo-^/^, 

 particularly fepoys, and to murder them; It is not dated what means 

 of dedm 61 ion are u fed by thefe people; but in the examinations taken 

 before Mr. CracrofTj the zemindars would appear to be concerned^' 

 with the go/ains in thefe nefarious practices ; and it is dated' by a wit« 

 jie^s, that numbers of travellers have, for years, been made away with^. 

 m this quarter* The edabiiiliment of chokies, on the highways pnn<» 

 Gipally infefted by thefe mifcreants, and the employment of the village 

 watch in aid of thefe chokies, are, in every re fped:, the mod certaia 

 and efficient arrangemeats which en be devifed for the fuppreiUon' oB 

 this crirnCc, 



