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NETHERLANDS INDIA
TRADE, NAVIGATION,
Riouw, Macasser, Menado, Kema, Ternate, Amboina, Kajeli, Banda and Koepang are free ports. The other ports are open either for general trade or only for native coasting navigation. Entrepôts, where goods can be stored and sold, and from whence they can be exported without payment of import or export duties, are established at Batavia, Cheribon, Semarang, Soerabaia, Padang, Siboga, Baros and Singkel.
The value of imports in 1897 was in Java and Madoera in the other islands
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Total...
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117,498,408 guilders
64,207,140
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181,705,548
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The value of exports in 1897 was from Java and Madoera..... 142,197,962 guilders and from the other islands
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Total...
68,216,316
210,414,278
The mercantile marine of Netherlands India consisted in December, 1897, of 2,090 ships, of which 8, were steamers, with a tonnage of 249,065 cubic metres..
In 1897 there arrived from abroad
3,887 steamers
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tonnage 4,179,710 cubic metres
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373,215 135,088
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206 European sailing vessels... 1,632 native sailing vessels
Total... 5,725 vessels with a tonnage of
and in the same year departed
4,688,013
3,786 steamers
tonnage
4,004,735 cubic metres
197 European sailing vessels... 1,518 native sailing vessels
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361,105 129,457
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5,501
4,495,297
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Import duties are imposed in Java and Madoera, the West coast of Sumatra, Acheen (excepted the isle of Way), Bencoolen, Lampongs, Palembang, Banka, Billiton and S. E. Borneo, but not in the islands of the Riouw residency, in the Government of Celebes and in the Residencies Amboina, Ternate and Timor. The import duty is fixed ad valorem or according to the weight or the dimensions, most of the goods being separately mentioned in the tariff. Most of the metals, machinery, raw materials, as lime and wood, horses and cattle, and articles of art and science are free of import duty. Export duty is only paid on a few articles according to value or quantity, for instance, hides 2 per cent., birds'nests 6 per cent. of the value, coffee f.1, tin f.350, indigo f.10 for 100 kilogrammes. Transit cargo is free.
An excise is charged on liquors of 5 per cent., on alcohol, on kerosine oil (f.2.50 per hectoliter), on matches f.0.7 per gross and on tobacco.
Commercial intercourse is much advanced by the Steam Navigation Company "Koninklyke Paketvaart Maatschappij," possessing 31 steamers plying across the whole Archipelago. These steamers have splendid accommodation for saloon passengers.
PUBLIC WORKS.
There are now 1,731 kilometres of railway in Java and 3125 kilometres in Sumatra ; and 6675 kilometres of tramway in Java. The telegraphs extend over 6,833-88 kilometres, the telegraph cables over 1,672:53, together 8,506'41 kilometres. The net receipts of the Post and Telegraph services amounted to f.475,561,51; the number of stations was 344 for Java and Madoera and 93 for the other islands.
DIRECTORY
BESTUUR VAN NEDERLANDSCH-INDIE
Gouverneur Generaal-W. Rooseboom.
Adjudant van Z. E.-J. J. Staal, Luitenant Kolonel der Genie, tevens
intendant der Gouvernements hôtels
Do. -J. B. A. Jonckheer Luitenant-ter-zee der 1ste klasse Do. ---J. Ph. Weitzel, Eerste luitenant der Infanterie