[42] One Thomas Holloway appears in the Annual Register as “High Constable” in 1827.

[43] The Supreme Court supplanted the Recorder’s Court in 1823, and was opened in 1824.

[44] F. D. Drewitt, Bombay in the days of George IV.

[45] P. B. Malabari, Bombay in the Making, p. 283.

[46] Times of India, September 22, 1894.

[47] Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island, Vol. II, p. 224 (note 2.)

[48] Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island, Vol. II, p. 146-7.

[49] S. T. Sheppard, The Byculla Club, p. 5.

[50] Mrs. Postans, Western India in 1838, Vol. I, p. 27. The Pagis received about Rs. 7 a month for prowling about the compounds of houses by night.

[51] Ibid., Vol. II, p. 222.