[9] "Lord George Hamilton himself instigated disregard of his own command by sanctioning the repeal of the law which had embodied it, upon a pretext so grotesquely irrelevant that an admission of its ingenuousness is tantamount to a charge of imbecility against the sanctioning Minister."--_The Shield_, November, 1897. [10] Lady Henry Somerset addressed a letter to Lord George Hamilton, January 27th, 1898, withdrawing these propositions. But alas! such a tardy withdrawal cannot undo the mischief wrought to the native girls of India by the repeal of the Cantonment Acts Amendment Act of 1895 (see Appendix C). [11] Additional colour was given to this, later, by Lady Henry Somerset placing the name of Lord Roberts (author of the "Infamous Circular Memorandum," the history of which we have given in chapters 1 and 5) on the Advisory Board of the Duxhurst Inebriate Home of the B.W.T.A., at the Annual Conference of the Association in June, 1897. APPENDICES. A. FAC-SIMILE REPRODUCTION OF THE CIRCULAR MEMORANDUM ISSUED BY LORD ROBERTS. B. FAC-SIMILE OF A REGISTRATION TICKET. C. LETTER TO LORD GEORGE HAMILTON. Appendix A. [Transcriber's Note: The following text is the transcription of a page of a multi-part document.] _The photographic reduction of the following document was originally issued by the Friends' Association for Abolishing the State Regulation of Vice. It is here reproduced by their permission._ The Names of the Commander-in-Chief and of the Quartermaster-General who were in office on the date of issue of each of the Circular Memorandums mentioned in the following Parliamentary Return. _According to the Indian Army and Civil Service List, 1870 to 1876; India List, 1877 to 1886._ --------------------+-------------------+------------------------------- Date of Circular. |Commander-in-Chief.| Quartermaster-General. --------------------+-------------------+------------------------------- 20th July, 1870 |LORD NAPIER[*] |COL. P. S. LUMSDEN. 20th November, 1871 | Ditto | Ditto. 23rd August, 1872 | Ditto | Ditto. 30th September, 1873| Ditto |{ Ditto or | |{MAJOR-GEN. E. B. JOHNSON. 8th July, 1875 | Ditto |COL. F. S. ROBERTS. 8th May, 1876 |{ Ditto or } |MAJOR-GEN. F. S. ROBERTS. |{SIR F. P. HAINES} | 19th August, 1876 |SIR F. P. HAINES | Ditto. 28th February, 1878 | Ditto | Ditto. 24th November, 1880 | Ditto | ---- 23rd April, 1883 |SIR D. M. STEWART |MAJOR-GEN. SIR C. M. MACGREGOR. 26th November, 1883 | Ditto | Ditto. 12th July, 1884 | Ditto | Ditto. 17th June, 1886 |SIR F. S. ROBERTS |MAJOR-GEN. E. F. CHAPMAN. --------------------+-------------------+------------------------------- [*] Lord Napier of Magdala