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1*2. • Should you agree in the propriety of the principle of the above Rules, I propose
to submit them for Government sanction without delay.
I have the honour to be, &,c.
(Signed) W. A. GOLDFINCH,
First Assistant Collector in charo-e.
Dharwar, Collector s Office, \th February 1851.
No. 54 of 1851.
To W. A. GOLDFINCH, Esq.,
First Assistant Collector in char ore.
Sir,
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 176, dated 4th instant, in which
you do me the honour of requesting my opinion on certain Rules for regulating promo
tion among the Native servants of this Collectorate, which you are desirous of seeing
introduced, and contemplate submitting for the approval and sanction of Government.
2. In reply, I beg to express my cordial concurrence in all your views, which, if
fully carried out, will, I am satisfied, prove of the utmost service in raising the character
ol our Native revenue servants.
3. I can add little to the clear and conclusive reasons adduced in your letter in
support ot the Rules you suggest for adoption ; but as, in the course of my duties, I
have seen a great deal of the district establishments, both in this province and in the
Deccan, and had good opportunities of learning something of their feeling as to their
position and prospects, it may not be superfluous to state my conviction that there is a
very general or rather universal conviction among them, that their advancement does
not depend so much on the manner in which their duties are performed, as upon their
being able to secure the favour of some Native official, who is supposed to exert the
greatest influence over the Collector, or Assistant Collector, as the case may be.
4. The existence of this general feeling is not only destructive of all independence,
and often of honesty too, in those actuated by it, as fully illustrated in your letter, but
is at same time highly prejudicial to the general management of the Collectorate, by
substituting, for the ostensible governance of the European Collector, the indirect but
not the less felt rule of an irresponsible Native official. Though the latter be honest, the
hurtful effect of his influence is not thereby averted ; but if he be dishonest, it spreads
like a corrupting virus through the whole circle of the district Native officials, none of
whom hopes to brave such an influence without risking his own reputation with the
Collector, and thenefore, however honestly inclined, does not attempt to do so. The
whole fabric of the Collector's authority may be thus undermined, while the exterior
seems to him fair and sound, and there seems to be as little reason for questioning the
evils of such a state of things as the fact of their being in great measure due to the
manner in which promotion among the members of the Native establishments is now
effected.
5. The Rules you suggest seem well calculated to remedy these evils, and I do not
see how they could fail of placing the members of the district establishments in a position