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quantity, for instance, hides 2 per cent., birds' nests 6 per cent., damar, benzoin, rattan 5 per cent. (S. E. Borneo 8 per cent.), of the value, tin £.3.50 for 100 kilogrammes. Transit cargo is free.
An excise is charged on liquors of 5 per cent., on alcohol, on kerosene oil (f.2.50 per hectoliter), on matches when each stick has only one head £0.70 per gross boxes each box containing no more than seventy-nine sticks (1,905 per gross boxes more for each additional number of five sticks or part therefrom), when each stick has two heads f.1.40 per gross boxes, each box containing no more than seventy-nine sticks (f.0.10 per gross boxes more for each additional number of five sticks or part therefrom) and on tobacco exported from Java to Borneo,
Commercial intercourse is much advanced by the Steam Navigation Company "Koninklyke Paketvaart Maatschappij," possessing 42 ocean-steamers plying across the whole Archipelago, and 4 wheelboats for the inland trade. These steamers have splendid accommodation for saloon passengers.
PUBLIC WORKS
On the 1st June 1906 there were 2,116 kilometres of railway in Java and 302 kilo- metres in Sumatra: 1,962 kilometres of tramway in Java and Madoern and 481 kilometres in Sumatra. The telegraphs extend over 8,88104 kilometres, the telegraph_cables over 5,221.27, together 14,102.31 kilometres. The balance of revenues and expenditures of the Post and Telegraph services showed a deficit of f.1,303,883:52; the number of stations was 436 for Java and Madoera and 157 for the other islands,
DIRECTORY
BESTUUR VAN NEDERLANDSCH-INDIE.
Gouverneur-Generaal J. B. VAN HEUTSZ
Adjurlant van Z. E.– C. M. Kan, Kapitein der Artillerie, tevens intendant der Gouvernements-hôtels
Do.
—-G, J. J. do Neve, Luitenant-ter-Zee der Iste klasse
Do. —H. L. H. Baron van Esselmuden, Iste Luitenant der Infanterie
RAAD VAN NEDERLANDSCH-INDIE Vice-President- Jhr. O, van der Wijek Leden Mr. S. J. Lagerwey, Mr. C. H. Nieuwenhuys, F. A. Liefrinek, C. J. de Jaager
Secretaris-- W. Brouwer
ALGEMEENE SECRETARIE
- - Algemeene Secretaris D. F. W. van Rees Eerste Secretaris Aan het Gouvernement-
J. Hulshoff Pol
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Secretarissen van het Gouvernement
G. J. Staal (à la suite), Jhr. Mr. A. C. D), de Graeff (verlof), Mr. Dr. M. S. Koster, E. Moresco (tyd. wd.)
ALGEMEENE REKENKAMER Voorzitter-H. M. la Chapelle Leden --W. A. P. F. L. Storm van's Gravesande T. Rinses, (verlof), F. A. Leclerq de Courcelles, A. Suermondt (verlof), A. J. G. A. Wiemans (tyd.), H. W. | Kloos, Mr. J. Paulus (tyd.) Secretaris B. Th. W. van Hasselt
DEPARTEMENT VAN JUSTITIE Directeur Mr. A. L. E. Gastmann Secretaris Mr. J. H. Carpentier Alting
RECHTSWEZEN
HOOGGERECHTSHOF VAN NED, INDIE President--Mr. W. C, Berkhout, Vice-President - Mr. J. Reepmaker Raadsheeren-Mrs. P. J. van der Zweep, 1. A. Nederburgh, P. H. Fromberg, A. J. Andrée Wiltens, H. Radier, S. J. Hirsch, F. J. E. A. Bade, H. Schuyten Procureur Generaal-Mr. B. H. P. van der
Zwaan
Advocaat Generaal-Mr. A. J. A. Kollmann Grittier Mr. A. J. van Buuren
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RADEN VAN JUSTITIE
Batavia
President -- Mr. J. Loudon Vice-President—Mr. W. L. Borel Leden-Mrs. J. F. Engelbrecht, J. W. C. Cordes, J. C. Hubregtse, P. L. A. Collard, G. André de la Porte, G. L. Mens Fiers Smeding
Officier van Justitie-Mr. M. L. Andrée
Wiltens
Substituten do. Mrs. J. Dupare, M.
M. Taytelbaum, J. S. Thieme Grither---
Semarang
President Mr. J. H. Meis