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Rh zation, and he resolved that they should if possible be trained to the highest point of efficiency. As he had, when himself a district officer, carefully instructed all his subordinates, European and Native, obeying always his superiors, so he would now instruct all the district officers who had come under subordination to him. He justly hoped that, by his practical acquaintance with all details of the work, he would induce them to value his guidance, not only from the necessity of official obedience, but from a sense of loyal obligation. He held that the most important part of their duties related to the land revenue and the various matters connected therewith; which duties were divided into two groups, the first relating to the collection of the land revenue, the second relating to the assessment of the land tax and the registration of landed tenures, — all which bore the generic name of Settlement. He would thoroughly instruct them in each of these main groups separately. His instruction was not to consist merely of isolated directions or of orders issued from time to time; it was to be combined, classified and codified. There were highly qualified Secretaries, of whose talents and knowledge he fully availed himself in a hundred ways. But this work of consolidated instruction he would personally undertake. Accordingly he prepared, mostly with his own hand, two concise though weighty manuals, one entitled 'Directions to Collectors,' the other 'Directions to Settlement Officers.' By these publications he fully set forth