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in England, these thirty rupees per month, and this trifling salary, 
are to be the sole dependance of an unemployed civilian for all 
the necessaries of life. In this statement we have omitted the 
allowance you were pleased to make for house rent, to those who 
could not be furnished with apartments by the Company, because 
it is rather a deduction than an increase: as you must well know, 
Gentlemen, there are no habitable houses to be hired at so small a 
rent as forty rupees, per month. 
It would be necessary to apologize to \’our Honourable Hoard 
for the detail we have been led into on this occasion, had not the 
reason for it been before assigned. From what has been advanced, 
one evident conclusion, we think, may be drawn, viz. that, in com- 
mon with other gentlemen in their service, the Honourable Com- 
pany alwaj^s meant and understood, that their civil servants should 
possess adequate means of subsistence, proportionably to the rank 
they bore by the course of the service; if was so formerly: but by 
the number of servants, and the late contraction of the system 
here, speculation and fact are in this case at variance; and we 
who now address you, after having laboured in the service of the 
Company from twelve to upwards of fourteen years, are worse than 
expelled from it, as to the present; for we are left without ade- 
quate means of subsistence from our employers; and precluded 
from benefitting by the opportunities that offer to those who are 
not in their service. 
We beg leave to observe here, that the Honourable the Court 
of Directors foresaw the distress that many of their servants would 
infallibly be involved in, by the new modelling of this presidency. 
That from a feeling for this distress, they pointed out what 
