'Post of Indian Assistant and Assistant Political Agent' [‎37r] (73/152)

would be coming up for appointment aa a probfitioner sty f bout a yepr
hence. I could tr.uin him in tho work required during the next few months
& he would relieve me of « lot of routine work.Sncodlng ^ decoding wires
slone t- kes up c lot of time .Normally thrt v ^ould not mfitter.but with
all the reform work on hand the routine work is really now more than I
can cope with, ouch an officer would gain a lot of useful exp rience 4
learn Arabic. He could be well 'vetted 1 as to his suitability for
subsequent appointment as a probationer & when the time coaos to appoint
him, say next year.he would then go off for his training His experience
& loc^l knowledge together with n knowledge of rabic he will h^ve
acquired might well fit hia for ?.A. here 1 iter on f when his local
knowledge acquired during the introduction of th 1 reforms would be
^n c -sset. There must be sever? 1 such young Military Officers on the
list of the P & P. from whom • likely ir n could be selected & doubtle
he would Jura > - t the chance of gaining exp rience i the opportunity
of shev ing wh' t he wrs worth as he would be sura to be subsequently
appointed to the Department if he had done well.
To be u seful he should be appoint d ver^ soon ,30 that by next cold
werther he will have found his feet & leJ've rae to get on with the
more i portant work.
Among other things I was going to suggest,^ which if approved I vant
to get on with during th hot weather, is the preparation f in ar^bic
of a simple Criminal Procedure Code & Civil Code f for use in the
Low^r & Higher courts. Hemad feels the need of this badly.I would
suggest that it be based on the Indian codes would in fact merely
be t transl tion of the most important articles into arabic mad e
as sitap^e ? s possible . It might be necessary to add , 4 ust a few
articles in refemnce to particular local matters which do not
come under Indian Law but are based on long est'-blished custom.It
would not,of course be introduced until approved, it present cases
are decided by Hamad by the light of mture only,or in dif iGu ?-t
cases he generally consult s rae & asks whet the law is as it would b
applied in the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Court. It seems e:3senti«l f bo th for him & for
his subjects that it should be laid down in Arabic what, for instance
are the limits of punishment for specified offences.Particular^y the,
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