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of State for India should have ' all such or the like powers over all officers appointed or continued under this Act as might or should have been exercised or performed by the East India Company.'

The following table gives the total number of troops, both royal and Indian forces, employed in British India, in each of the ten years — ending April 30 the first seven, and March 31 subsequently — from 1860 to 18G9 : —

Indian Forces

Years

Royal Troops, Europeans

Europeans

Natives

1860

72,1.58

20,708

213,002

305,868

1861

62,120

22,174

184,672

268,966

1862

67,545

10,629

125,913

204,087

1863

71,074

5,011

121,775

197,860

1864

70,674

4,287

121,060

196,021

I860

65,901

5.979

118,315

190,195

1866

62,451

4,363

117,095

183,909

1867

61,498

3,969

117,681

183,148

1868

58,288

3,609

119,169

181,066

1869

60,969

3,889

120,000

184,858

In the above table, the East India Company's troops appear under the head of 'Indian Forces' in the year 1857, after which the Europeans and natives are Her Majesty's Indian forces, distinct from royal troops employed in India.

In the army estimates laid before Parliament in the session of 1870, the strength of Her Majesty's British Forces in India for the year 1870-71 was given as follows : —

British forces

Officers

Non-com- missioned officers

Rank and File

Royal horse artillery Cavalry of the line . Artillery and engineers . Infantry of the line .

Total

200

225

1,016

1,500

253

424

795

3,262

2,680

3,762

7,936

41,000

2,941

4,734

62,963

The total cost of the Indian army in 1857, the year before the mutiny, with 45,522 European and 232,224 natives on the pay-rolls, was 13,874,950/., while in the financial year 1868-9, when there were 64,858 Europeans, and 120,000 natives on the pay-rolls, the charges amounted to 16,044,061/. The Secretary of State for India, when submitting the Indian budget, for the year 1869-70, to ParUa-

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