They receive five rupees eight annas a-month pay, and batta, or extra allowance, when marching; and the same pay as our own sipahees of the line (seven rupees a-month) when serving with them.

But the commandants cannot get recruits equal to those that enlist in our regiments of the line, or those that enlist in the corps of the officers above named.

They have not the rest and the licence of the one, while they have the same drill and discipline, without the same rate of pay as the other.

They have now the privilege of petitioning through the Resident like our sipahees of the line, and that of the pension establishment, while Barlow's, Bunbury's, and Magness's corps have neither.

They have none but internal duties--they are hardly ever sent out to aid the King's local authorities, and do not escort treasure even for their own pay.