had been reduced at the same rate, from twenty-seven eight annas a-month to fourteen, and their owners received the same order.

All villages near the roads along which the troops and establishments move are plundered of their bhoosa, and all those within ten miles of the place, where they may be detained for a week or fortnight, are plundered in the same way.
The Telinga corps and Frontier Police are alone provided with tents and hackeries by Government.

The Nujeeb corps are provided with neither.

The Oude Government formerly allowed for each four-bullock hackery thirty rupees a-month, from which _two rupees and half_ were deducted for the perquisites of office.

The owners of the hackeries were expected to purchase bhoosa and other fodder for their bullocks at the market price; but they took what they required without payment, in _collusion with_ the officers under whom they were employed, or in _spite_ of them; and the Oude Government in 1845 cut the allowance down to seventeen rupees and half, out of which _three rupees and half_ are cut for perquisites, leaving fourteen rupees for the hackeries: and their owners and drivers have the free privilege of helping themselves to bhoosa and other fodder wherever they can find them.