deflecting on the mode of effecting this, it occurs to me, that of 
the share of the Dewannee revenue, with which the Honourable 
Company have been pleased to favour the members of the board 
and the field officers, there remains now unappropriated the sum 
of seventy thousand rupees; it seems but just and reasonable, 
that the unappropriated part of a sum intended for the benefit 
of their servants at Bombay, should be applied to the relief of 
the gentlemen who have now requested relief from us. I there- 
fore propose, that from the first of this month they receive an equal 
share of the Dewannee. from this unappropriated fund with a lieu- 
tenant-colonel; which, considering all things, will render their 
receipts but adequate to their expenses. 
“ It becomes not me to dictate to my Honourable employers 
the degree of bounty they should confer on their civil servants; but 
I cannot help observing, that, by the contraction of the system here, 
there must at all times be some senior servants at the presidency, 
who will have only their stated receipts from the Company to 
depend on: and that these receipts should (as in other cases) bean 
some proportion to their time of service, considering also that 
senior merchants of from twenty to thirty years standing in the 
Company’s service may be in this predicament; and that the pro- 
posed addition will render their receipts no more than adequate to 
their real wants, it seems to me but just and reasonable, that all 
such as may hereafter be in the situation of the present gentlemen, 
and are found deserving, should at least be entitled to this relief: 
particularly as some of them, but for the reduction of the number 
of the members of council, might have been strictly entitled to this 
share of the Dewannee. 
