Do you not think that in your Courts the final sentence might be left to the European functionaries, and the verdict only left to the Punchaets?
The greater part of those already convicted in these Courts will have to be released soon, and all who are so will certainly return to their trade; and the system will continue in spite of all our efforts to put it down.

I have just been at Jubulpore, and the bearing of the Bagree decoits, sent from Ajmeer by Buch, is quite different from that of those who have had a sentence of imprisonment for life passed against them in other quarters, and is very injurious to them, for they get so bad a name that no one will venture to give them service of any kind.

Do, I pray you, think of a remedy for the future.

The only one that strikes me is that above suggested, of leaving the final sentence to the European officers.
I need not say that I was delighted at your getting the great Douger Sing by the means you had yourself proposed for the pursuit--sending an officer with authority to disregard boundaries.
Yours sincerely, (Signed) W.S.SLEEMAN To Col.

Sutherland.
______________________________ Jhansee, 4th March, 1848.
My Lord, I had the gratification to receive your Lordship's letter of the 7th of January last, at Nursingpore, in the valley of the Nerbudda, where I commenced my Civil career more than a quarter of a century before, and where, of all places, I should have wished to receive so gracious a testimonial from such high authority.