Country. Resumption of the Lands of Paicks, Chokedars, and other Watchmen.-The bad footing on which this Establishment is placed, and the well-known Connivance of the Watch- men with Dacoits and Thieves.-Want of a Fund for Rewards.-Want of a more general Continuation of the Causes of Delinquency.-Fa- cilility of Acquittal while under Trial, in the first instance, before the Magistrate, and after- wards before the Court of Circuit.-False Evi- dence easily obtained.-This arises from the to- tal disregard which the Natives have for Truth, Continuation of the Causes of Delinquency,-de- fective Management of Jails in India,—where, instead of Improvement and Conviction, the Criminal meets with encouragement, and the best instruction from experienced Teachers in CONSIDERATIONS ON THE STATE OF INDIA. CHAP. IV. CONTINUATION OF THE CAUSES OF DELINQUEN CY, WANT OF A SUPERINTENDING BOARD OF POLICE. RECEIVERS OF STOLEN PROPERTY NOT SUFFICIENTLY PUNISHED. -METHODS PRO POSED FOR THEIR DETECTION,—AND CONVICTION. THE ALLOWING FELONS, AND OTHERS WHO HAVE ESCAPED FROM THE JAILS, OR HAVE BEEN SUMMONED ON OTHER TRIALS, AND THEN ABSCONDED, TO REMAIN AT LARGE IN THE SEVERAL DISTRICTS.-WANT OF EMPLOYMENT FOR RELEASED PRISONERS. In order that Government should at all times be aware of the extent of criminality VOL. II. B in in their several districts, and should have before them proofs of the efficacy or inefficacy of the remedies which, from time to time, are applied towards checking the rapid strides of vice in general, or the increase of any particular species of crime, it is absolutely necessary that there should be a Superintending Board of Police, in which shall centre the reports from all the districts, and whose members, by becoming acquainted with the state of police in all the districts, and by comparing the merits of the different systems and plans of the Magistrates, shall be enabled to recommend a more general use of those which have proved successful. The reports which should be forwarded from the different Magistrates to the Board of Superintendence of Police, are now furnished to the Sudder Dewany Adawlut; but, instead of being bare lists of criminals confined-sentenced,-on trial, punished, &c. |