ਕਾਵਨ ਤੇ ਫ਼ੋਰਸਾਈਥ ਨੂੰ ਸਜ਼ਾਵਾਂ
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ਹੋਵੇ।* ਪਰ ਪਿੱਛੋਂ ਕਾਵਨ ਦੀ ਤੇਈ ਸਾਲਾਂ ਦੀ ਨੌਕਰੀ ਦਾ ਖ਼ਿਆਲ ਕਰ ਕੇ ਸਰਕਾਰ ਹਿੰਦ ਨੇ ੩ ਮਈ ਸੰਨ ੧੮੭੨ ਨੂੰ ਆਪਣੀ ਡਿਸਪੈਚ ਨੰਬਰ ੧੫੨ ਏ. (ਫ਼ਾਈਨੈਨਸ਼ਨ ਡੀਪਾਰਟਮੈਂਟ) ਰਾਹੀਂ ਉਸ ਨੂੰ ਤਿੰਨ ਸੌ ਰੁਪਇਆ ਮਹੀਨਾ ਪੈਨਸ਼ਨ ਦਿੱਤੇ ਜਾਣ ਦੀ ਸਫ਼ਾਰਿਸ਼ ਕੀਤੀ ਜੋ ਸੈਕਰੇਟਰੀ ਔਫ਼ ਸਟੇਟ ਫਾਰ ਇੰਡੀਆ ਨੇ ਮਨਜ਼ੂਰ ਕਰ ਦਿੱਤੀ।*
*22. xxx His Excellency is under the painful necessity of affirming that the course followed by Mr. Cowan was illegal, that it was not palliated by any public necessity. and that it was characterised by incidents which gave it a complexion of barbarity. That course was commenced in opposition to the spirit of instructions received from superior authority, and, in the absence of sanction, involked but not awaited; it was prosecuted to completion in contravention of positive orders.
23. Under all these circumstances, His Excellency in Council is compelled to direct that Mr. Cowan be removed from the service. He does so with deep regret, as Mr. Cowan's previous character and conduct have been uni xc ptionable, and as he acted with promptitude in conceiting measures for the repression of the movement.
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30. His Excellency in Council cosiders that Mr. Forsyth's conduct will be adequately dealt with by bis removal from the Commissionership of Ambala to a position in another province in which he will not have to superintend the judicial proceedings of any native State, and by an expression of the opinion of the Government of India that he ought not in future to be placed in a position in which he would be called upon to exercise similar control and superintendence.
[Secretary to the Government of India, Home Dept., to the Officiating Secretary to Govt. of the Punjab, No. 857, dated 30th April 1872.]
*ਸਕਰਿਟਰੀ ਔਫ ਸਟੇਟ ਦੀ ਸਰਕਾਰ ਹਿੰਦ ਜਗ ਡਿਸਪਚ ਨੰਬਰ ੩੨ ਜੁਡੀਸ਼ਲ), ੧੮੭੨।
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