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consequent on your instructions and the additional assignment. The arrangements of the
Lieutenant-Governor indicate a very careful disposition of the means placed at his disposal,
and an intelligent appreciation of the great importance of the whole subject.
5. I cannot conclude without an expression of my cordial satisfaction with the careful
and complete manner in which Your Excellency has dealt with a question surrounded with
so many difficulties, and so intimately connected with the best interests of a very large and
influential portion of Her Majesty’s subjects in India.

No. 3, dated Fort William, the 5th January 1874.
Endorsed by the Home Department.
Copy forwarded to the Government of Bengal for information, with reference to their
endorsement No. 2679, dated the 29th July last.