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Relations with Tributary States and Frontier Affairs |
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65. Early in 1898, Captain Cole at that time Officiating Deputy Commissioner of the Naga Hills, reported that the number of guns, licensed and unlicensed, had attained considerable proportions and recommended that steps should be taken to withdraw all guns not required by the people for the protection of their persons and cultivation against wild animals and to gradually reduce the number of guns to a fixed maximum per tribe. The Chief Commissioner after consulting the most experienced frontier officers of the province, directed that in future no new licenses should be issued to any Angamis or Kukis except as a reward for special services. It was added that a license should invariably be withdrawn in every case in which the holder comes under the displeasure of the authorities, that confiscation of a license should be part of the penalty in every case of punishment, and that whenever the gun for which a license has been granted becomes unserviceable, or whenever the holder of the license dies, the license should not be renewed in the ordinary course, and that when it is renewed in such cases the special reason for so doing should be placed on record. |
