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PERLIS
1369
(corresponding partly with 1923) the revenue was $397,187 and expenditure $342,698, as compared with $369,187 and $315,587 in the previous year. With the transference of suzerainty a debt of $495,394 was taken over by the F.M.S. The debt now stands at $400,000.
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There is very little to be said of the trade of Perlis. In Kangar there is one street of shops, whose proprietors besides selling sundry goods also export padi-the staple product of the country-as well as ducks and fowls for the Penang market. The chief imports are cottons for native clothing, kerosene, tobacco and sundry odds and ends used by the Malay country people. In 1910 the State Council abolished the general duty of 3 per cent. on imported goods and now the only goods taxed on import are spirits, beer, wine, tobacco and kerosene. The general duty of 5 per cent. on exports has been abolished and replaced by duties on tin-ore, rubber, jungle produce and -other specific products. In 1341 (Mahommedan reckoning), 350 tons of tin-ore were exported. 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 plantations which exported 1331 piculs in 1341.
DIRECTORY
MEMBERS OF STATE COUNCIL
H. H. Raja Syed Alwi, C.B.E., president
The British Adviser
Syed Hamzah, vice-president
Syed Idrus
Haji Mohamed Nor
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
Adviser-J. W. W. Hughes
Commissioner of Lands-Syed Idrus Judges-Haji Ahmad, Syed Hussein and
Syed Mustapha
Collector of Customs-Mohamed Arshad Treasurer-Wan Ahmad