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chief imports are cottons for native clothing, kerosene, tobacco and sundry odds and eids used by the Malay country people. In 1910 the State Council abolished the niscellaneous import duty of 3 per cent. on all imported goods not specifically mention- el, and now the only duties raised are on spirits, beer, wine, tobacco and kerosene. The miscellaneous export duty of 5 per cent. on all goods not specifically mentioned (uch as tin and guano) has also been abolished. In 1917, there were 195 tons of tin ce exported against 210 tons in 1916.
Many of the lime-stone hills of Perlis contain caves rich in guano deposits.
The chief native cultivation is padi. Rubber is represented by a few native planta- tons which exported 8,920 pounds in 1916, and 38,189 pounds in 1917, but this form of altivation is rapidly extending.
DIRECTORY
MEMBERS OF STATE COUNCIL
H. H. Raja Syed Alwi, president H. C. Eckhardt, acting adviser Syed Hamzah
Datoh Wan Teh Haji Mohamed Nor
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
Adviser-H. C. Eckhardt (acting) Commissioner of Lands-Ché-Mahmud Judges-Ché-Mahmud, Haji Mohamed,
Wan Ahmad Commissioner
Arshad
Customs
Mohamed
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