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19 and customs, more particularly if, as often happens they are connected by blood or marriage with the Indians. It is a fact well ascertained during the war that a number of influential chiefs were in the direct employment and pay of the British Indian Department I merely state these facts without observation to assist in forming a correct opinion upon this subject. 3. Another source of their influence will be found in the prodigal and gratuitous distribution of goods to the Indian How far we ought to imitate their example will hereafter be considered. It is sufficient that this distribution is here enumerated as one of the causes to which their influence may be attributed. Its consequences are too direct and palpable to require much consideration. The Indians notwithstanding their constitutional and habitual indisposition to exertion as the means of acquiring property, and notwithstanding their improvident wastes of it, when impelled by their passion for gaming and their appetite for spirituous liquor and yet venal and avaricious. The British have gratified them in this important (unclear), and the consequences which have resulted require no elucidation. Activity and energy have been given to these and to other secondary causes, which it is not now important to enumerate by the manner in which the British Indian Department is organized and its business conducted. Their Department is military in its constitution, the Agents and Interpreters have certain provincial rank and are subject to martial law