They were hired to protect their employer, big land owner against invaders and feudal enemies, and also to control their slaves and indentured servants.
After that, the memorandum said, the benefit of annual increment beyond the pay scales as personal pay was allowed to all the government servants w.e.f.
A high percentage of the population were labourers/servants, and middling sorts, while a very low percentage of the population were employers or professionals.
