منشور رقم ٤٢٩١ الخاص بإيرادات إدارة الأقاليم من السكرتير المفوض لحكومة قلعة بومباي، تشارلز إدوارد فرايزر تايتلر، إلى المقيم في الخليج العربي [ظ‎‎٣‎٠] (٢٤/٦)

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one great reason of the comparatively low standard of honesty among the lower grades,
and I think that more can be done towards raising this standard by the introduction
of some system of promotion which may tend to encourage a feeling of independence,
and teach the service that they have rights as public servants, irrespective ot the
favour of individuals, and by which every man will know that by good conduct and
long service he must rise to certain height of advancement, than by any other measure
that can be adopted. With this impression, I would propose for adoption the following
Rules :—
7. All candidates for public service to be examined, as at present, and to enter the
service in the rank in which they stand. I think, that with the qualifications these men
must possess, and the knowledge of the mode of conducting business that they will soon
acquire, we may presume that they will be competent to fill all the situations up to a
certain height. This limit I propose to be the 18 rupee situations : up to that point the
promotion should go by seniority. When a man attains a 20 rupee situation, he be
comes the Second Karkoon in a Mamlutdar's, and First Karkoon in a Mahalkurry's
Cutcherry, and it may happen that he will be called upon to conduct the duties ot
either of these offices during the temporary absence of his superiors. 1 propose, there
fore, that after a man has risen to Rs. 18, he be examined, and unless pronounced by a
Committee competent to fill the higher offices, he remain at Rs. 18, the junior men who
may be pronounced competent being promoted over his head. The Committee to con
sist of the Collector, his Assistants, and Dufturdar, and the examination to take place
once a year, in the rains.
8. The men who are examined and found fit will be promoted to the higher offices
as they become vacant by seniority, and should it afterwards appear that any man,
notwithstanding his examination, prove by experience to be unfit for the higher offices,
he will be put down to the 18 rupee rank, from which he will not emerge.
9. It will be easy to draw up the precise Rules to be observed after the principle is
sanctioned: the above contain the essentials, which are security for every man being
promoted to a certain height, and an opportunity of showing whether he is capable of
filling the higher offices of Mahalkurry and Mamlutdar. A corrected lithographed list
of the service to be published once or twice a year ; a copy to be furnished to every
Cutcherry from the Petty Supply Fund, and to be sold to any one who chooses to
buy them at a price to cover the expense of paper and ink.
10. It is absolutely necessary that the Rules, if established, be most strictly enforced,
and that not the slightest deviation, except in the cases of very meritorious persons,
allowed ; but every such case must be reported to Government, and sanction obtained for
every proposed deviation. This must be insisted upon most rigidly : no Rules will be
observed without it. The necessity of writing a report will prevent the Rules being
broken without good reason ; while in a case of extraordinary merit, it is to be hoped that
no one will grudge the trouble of writing to obtain the means of rewarding it.
11. The servants on the Hoozoor establishment to form exceptions to these Rules.
Their duties are peculiar, and only to be acquired by long practice ; but in the case of
a Iloozoor Karkoon being sent to the districts, he will, if drawing higher pay than
Rs. 18, have to undergo an examination, and if not pronounced competent to fill the
higher appointment, to be reduced to the 18 rupee rank, until he can qualify himself;
if in the receipt of lower pay than Rs. 18, he will take his place according to his length
of service.