Report on the Military Expenditure of the Honorable East India Company

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Excerpt from Report on the Military Expenditure of the Honorable East India Company: Addressed to Major-General the Honourable Sir John Malcolm, G. C. B. K. L. S., GovernorThe effects of its operations for some time must be looked forward to, and a successful result anticipated, as the labour and talents applied to its execution by the subordinate officers on a simpler plan for action, affords every reasonable prospect of such a conclusion. On this footing I take it, and will advert in the proper place to those savings that are gradually effecting from the alterations, one of the leading features of which is the plan of making supplies by contract. The advantages the Government derives from this mode are the position of check or controller for the Government, instead of that of supplier, that it places the Commissariat officer in, the dispensing with numerous and expensive establishments, the prevention of delay, and the ascertained price at which the Government are sure the supply will be made, and the total amount of the ultimate expenditure. The reduction of price also appears a matter of course, and if success attends similar attempts elsewhere, a cheerim prospect from analogy presents itself to us, as to equal results attending our own plans, as f can state, from the most authentic source, that the introduction of the contract system at Madras, for the supplies to the engineers, occasioned a fall of 24 per cent. In the price of materials. Method, no doubt, and great discrimination of the capability of the means of the contractors, are indispensable qualities in the conduct of such a plan, and the comparative ease, as a novel or new experiment, with which it appears to be working, affords a pleasing presage of its ultimate success.In Bengal and Madras, the Commissariat was more confined to military purposes, making but few supplies out of its own line, until those for the hospitals were thrown into it. The equipments, however, for the Governor-general and civil officers of Government travelling on duty in Bengal, are made by it.Hardly any of the materials required in the manufactories of gunpowder and gun carriages, and for the erection of buildings in the military line, for the engineers, are furnished by the Bengal Commissariat, though at Madras this rule does not obtain, and those for the engineers, as stated, are mostly by contract through the Commissariat.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.