1849.] 



Remarks on the Abstract Tables, ^c. 



crimes, in the code of the 7th October,! 845, it is only on 20 of them, 

 or less than the fourth part, that the discharges have been awarded, 

 viz. : 



Mutiny, 



Violence to superiors, 

 Disobedience of lawful command, 

 Desertion, 



Drunkenness on duty. 

 Gross insubordination in the ranks, 

 &c. 



Breach of arrest or confinement, 

 False statement, &c. to obtain pen- 

 sion, 

 Malingering, 

 Selling or injuring Arms, 

 Embezzlement, 

 Disgraceful conduct. 



Quitting or sleeping on post in 



time of peace. 

 Accepting bribes to procure leave, 



&c. 



Quitting guard or picquet in time 

 of peace. 



Absence from parade, 



Absence without leave or over- 

 staying leave. 



Absence from cantonment after 

 hours. 



Selling, losing, or wasting ammu- 

 nition, 



Crimes not specified (to the pre- 



judice of good order,) &c. &c. 

 If it be established by farther experience that these twenty classes 

 of crime are of most frequent occurrence, the importance of direct- 

 ing considerable attention to their prevention or repression must be 

 obvious. 



Some of the above classes of crime were of more frequent occur- 

 rence than others, and it may be useful to allude to them individual- 

 ly : the first of them is 



Mutiny. 37 Native soldiers are recorded to have been discharged 

 for mutiny, in the five years, six of whom were Hindoos, and thirty- 

 one Mahomedans ; in this period the average strength of the Madras 

 native army was 44,129,* from which it appears that in the five 

 years the number of discharged mutinous soldiers was, 8*3 in every 

 10,000; being, only, I'G per 10,000, annually. 



It will be observed from the table that there were none discharg- 

 ed for mutiny in 1842-43 ; 1843-44 ; or in 1845-46 ; but that, of the 

 37 individuals, 31 were dismissed in 1844-45, and six in 1846-47, 

 and those who combined appear to have been all Hindoos or all Ma- 

 homedans. 



* See Appendix No. IV. In this stz-engtli is included oulj tliose soldiera whose 

 names tire inserted iu the dischar^red rolls. 



