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SELANGOR
cultivation are doing well in various parts of the State, and to encourage pioneer planters, large grants of land have recently been made, on special terms, for the planting of sago, pepper, and gambier.
The principal exports are tin, hides, garmwood, tapioca, canes, rattans, and gutta percha. The principal imports are opium, salt, salt-fish, rice, oil, tobacco, and tea. At the commencement of the year 1885, all duties were abolished, with the exception of those on tin, opium, and spirits. The export duty on tin in 1902 amounted to $3,109,647, the total value of the metal exported being $21,990,993, which is the highest value ever yet attained.
There is frequent and regular communication, by means of coasting steamers, between the Straits Settlements and Selangor, and from Kwala Lumpor a system of cart and bridle roads extends to the boundaries of Perak, Sungie Ujong, and Pahang. A line of metre gauge railway, to connect Kwala Lumpor and Klang (a distance of 22 miles) was formally opened by Sir F. Weld on the 15th Sept., 1886, and an extension to Kwala Kubu was opened on the 6th October, 1894, and a branch line from Kwala Lumpor to Sungei Besi on the 28th February, 1895. Eighty-three miles of line were open for traffic at the end of 1898. This has since been increased and the railways are paying well.
In connection with the railway a line of telegraph has been erected and extended to Malacca mid Sungie Ujong, where it is connected with the cables of the E. E., A. & C. Telegraph Co. There is also inland telegraphic communication between the principal towns. At the end of 1899 there were 321 miles of metalled and gravelled cart road.
The revenue of the state in 1901 was $6,562,317, just double what it was in 1894.
DIRECTORY
GOVERNMENT
Sultan-His Highness ALLH EL DIN SULEIMAN SHAH
British Resident-H. CONWAY BELFIELD
H. H. The Sultan, president
The British Resident
COUNCIL OF State
The Secretary to Resident, Kwala Lumpur
Raja Muda
Chan Sow Lin, Kwala Lumpur
KWALA LUMPUR
RESIDENCY AND SECRETARIAT
British Resident- H. Conway Belfield
Secretary to Resident-R. G. Grey
do. -J. R. O. Aldworth
Asst. Secretary to Resident-E. C. H. Wolff
Acting
Acting
do.
-A. S. Jelf
Office Assistant-C. H. C. Buchanan
Personal Clerk-F. L. de Rozario Chief Clerk-G. A. St. Maria
First Clerk-M. Jacobs
Clerks A. R. de Souza, P. de Gracias, Tan Ong Goon, Tan Wee Lian, A. Vallupillay, Chia Bah Chee, M. Sundrampillay, Koh Kiong Hin
gom.Se
Malay Writer-Raja Othman
CADETS
Passed Cadets-H. C. Eckhardt, A. S. Jelf, A.K. Peck, T. W. Clayton, S. H. Langston, H. A. Kennedy, F. E. Taylor Unpassed Cadeis-G. C. Valpy, P. T. Allen, H.S. Sircom, E. Macfadyen, M. B. Shelley, L. McLean
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Raja Hassan, Klang
Raja Haji Bôt, Kwala Lumpur G. Cumming, Kwala Lumpur Saiyid Mashhor
COURTS
Senior Magistrate's Court
Senior Magistrate-A. L. Ingall
Magistrate-O. F. Stonor
Acting Magistrate--C. Severn
Second do.
-N. Walker
Acting do. -M. H. Whiteley Registrar A. B. Voules
Chief Clerk--F. C. Perera
Clerks C. de Mello, D. J. Abeyaratne, S. Karthigasu, C. Arasaratnem, F. Nonis, V. Thumboo
Bailiff and Auctioneer-S. N. Chetterji Chinese Interpreters-Lim Teow Chong,
Lim Moh Seng, Teh Ah Wang Tamil do. -M. Coomarasami Pillai,
C. Tambapillai
Hindustani do.-A. C. Chetterjee
Native Magistrate
Raja Laut, Raja Bôt, Loke Yow
OFFICE OF Secretary FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS, FEDERATED MALAY STATES Sec. for Chinese Affairs-G. T. Hare, c.M.G.
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