. 12.0 7.0
A Havildar, or sergeant . . . . 14.0 7.0
A Jemadar, subaltern commissioned officer 24.8 13.0
Subadar, or Captain . . . . 67.0 25.0
Subadar Major . . . . . 92.0 0.0[a]
A Subadar, after forty years service . 0.0 50.0
A Subadar Bahadur of the Order of British
India, First Class, two rupees a day
extra; Second Class, one Rupee a day
extra. This extra allowance they
enjoy after they retire from the
service during life.[b]

a. I presume this means that no special rate of pension was fixed for
the rank of Subadar Major.

b. The monthly rates of pay and pension now in force for native
officers and men of the Bengal army are as follows:

_Rank_ _Pay._ _Pension._

_Ordinary._ _Superior._ _Ordinary._ _Superior._
_Rs._ _Rs._ _Rs._ _Rs._

Subadar 80 100[c] 30 50
Jemadar 40 50[c] 15 25
Havildar 14 -- 7 12
Naick (naik) 12 -- 7 12
Drummer or Bugler 7 -- 4 7
Sepoy 7 -- 4 7

c. Half of this rank in each regiment receive the higher rate of pay.

The circumstances which, in the estimation of the people, distinguish
the British from all other rulers in India, and make it grow more and
more upon their affections, are these: The security which public
servants enjoy in the tenure of their office; the prospect they have
of advancement by the gradation of rank; the regularity and liberal
scale of their pay; and the provision for old age, when they have
discharged the duties entrusted to them ably and faithfully.[l0] In a
native state almost every public officer knows that he has no chance
of retaining his office beyond the reign of the present minister or
favourite; and that no present minister or favourite can calculate
upon retaining his ascendancy over the mind of his chief for more
than a few months or years. Under us they see secretaries to
government, members of council, and Governors-General themselves
going out and coming into office without causing any change in the
position of their subordinates, or even the apprehension of any
change, a