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Secretary of the Straits Settlements for the time being shall appoint. And the decision or decisions of the persons from time to time appointed as aforesaid shall be final and binding on both parties. In witness whereof the said parties have hereunto set their hands at Malacca the day and year first before written.
Signature of the Viceroy,
(Signed)
DIA UDIN BIN ZINURRIFHEED, Quedah. C. F. M. M. DE GELVES, by his Attorney,
RICHARD BARKER.
J. G. DAVIDSON.
Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of,
(Signed) ALFRED R. ORD, Actiug Lieutenant-Governor, Malacca.
Gentlemen,
Inclosure 2 in No. 26.
Office of Secretary for Native Affairs, Singapore, March 10, 1875.
THE subject of the Concession by Tunku Dia Oodin, Viceroy of Salangore to the Count de Gelois and Mr. J. G. Davidson, of certain mining privileges in the territory of Salangore, has been under the consideration of this Government, and I am directed to state that, while the Governor disapproved of any Concession bearing on the face of it exclusive privileges, his Excellency has been fully alive to the advantages likely to arise to Salangore by encouraging the expenditure of European capital, and the introduction of European machinery and labour into the country on such terms as will, while being beneficial to Salangore, induce capitalists to invest their money.
With this principle in view, communications have been made to the Sultan of Salangore, through the British Assistant Resident at bis Court, and, after much consider- ation, an arrangement has been come to with the Sultan for confirming the Concession, and I am now to forward to you a copy of a proposed confirmation for communication to the parties interested in Europe.
Since the original Concession was granted, Mr. Davidson has been appointed Her Britannic Majesty's Resident at the Court of Salangore, and it will doubtless strike you that gentleman's name should not appear in the confirmation, leaving it to him and the others interested to make such arrangements as will be required for relieving Mr. Davidson from all interest in the future of the Concessionaires or of any Company to be formed under their directions.
In a matter of this importance, where the parties may have been led to entertain hopes of a character which could not be encouraged by Government if it should prove that the terms on which the confirmation is now offered are not entirely to the satisfaction of the parties interested, I am to state that his Excellency will be prepared to consider any modifications of the Confirmation you may propose on the basis of non-exclusiveness, and of giving to the Concessionaires only so much land as the amount of capital and labour to be expended will justify, and placing them on a footing of equality as to taxes with other persons in Salangore.
I have, &c.
T. BRADDELL, Secretary for Native Affairs.
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to advise and assist the Sultan of Salangore in the government of the territory of Salangore; and the said parties of the second part have applied to the Sultan of Salangore to ratify and confirm the agreement entered into as above set out, and the Sultan of Salangore, `under the advice of the British Government, is willing to ratify and confirm the said agreement, if the same is divested of its exclusive character, and to prevent monopoly in the said territory, and otherwise is willing to ratify and confirm the said agreement on such terms as will hold out a fair and reasonable inducement to the parties of the second part, and to any company which may be organized by them for the purpose of carrying on mining operations in Salangore:
Now these presents witness that the Sultan of Salangore does hereby for himself, bis heirs, and successors, as Sultan of Salangore, ratify and confirm the said agreement, s copy of which is hereunto attached, sealed with the seal of the Sultan of Salangore, in token of its being a true copy, but the said ratification and confirmation of the Sultan of Salangore hereby given, are given under the condition that no exclusive privileges or monopoly, are thereby given to or obtained by the parties of the second part, or any company to be organized by them, and that nothing in the said agreement or in this ratification and confirmation are to be held to prevent the Sultan of Salangore, his heirs, and successors, from granting to other persons similar privileges, so long as the same do not infringe on the privileges now ratified and confirmed as herein prescribed, and under the further condition that the parties of the second part shall, within one year from the date of the execution of these presents, mark out such lands as they may desire to use for mining purposes, and shall, within two years, work the same in such reasonable proportion of capital and labour as may be decided on between the parties to the said agreement, and that the rate of tax on tin produced by the parties of the second part, or any company to be organized by them, shall not be raised without the consent of the parties of the second part, or any company to be organized by them, but that the taxes to be paid otherwise by the parties of the second part, or by any company organized by them, shall be such as are chargeable and payable by other persons in Salangore for similar works and purposes; and provided that any differences or disputes which may at any time arise between the Sultan or Government of Salangore, and the parties of the second part, shall be referred to the award and determination of the Governor of the Straits Settlements for the time being.
No. 27.
Governor Sir Andrew Clarke, K.C.M.G., C.B., to the Earl of Carnarvon.—(Received April 24.)
Government House, Singapore, March 23, 1875.
My Lord,
I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith a Report from Mr. F. A. Swettenham, Her Majesty's Acting Assistant Resident of Salangore, which cannot but be considered as showing how satisfactory appear to be the relations which exist between that officer and His Highness the Sultan of Salangore.
I have, &c. (Signed)
A. CLARKE.
Inclosure in No. 27.
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Tin Mining Company, Limited.
Inclosure 3 in No. 26.
WHEREAS on the 8th day of March, in the year 1873, an agreement under scal was entered into between Tuanku Kudin, Viceroy of Salangore, on the one part, and Count Charles Frederick Theodore Marie Maur De Gelois of Ngadiradgo in the Island of Java, and James Guthrie Davidson of Singapore, on the other part, by which in certain consideration, the said Tuanku Kudin granted to the said parties of the second part certain exclusive privileges for mining purposes in the territory of Salangore; and whereas since the date of the said agreement, Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, &c., has, at the request of the Sultan of Salangore, assumed a protectorate over the State of Salangore, Her Majesty has, at the request of the Sultan of Salangore, appointed officers as Resident and Assistant Resident of Her said Majesty in Salangore,
Sir,
Report of the Assistant Resident with the Sultan of Salangore.
Langat, December 18, 1874, IN reply to your letter of August last, conveying to me instructions on my proceeding to Langat for a temporary residence with His Highness the Sultan of Balangore, I have the honour to inform you that from that date up to the present time I have heard of no case of piracy in or near Selangor; the trade of Langat has considerably increased, and the Chinese shopkeepers here tell me that whereas in past times they lived in terror of their lives and subjected to the grostest oppressions they now have a feeling of security hitherto unknown to them.
I am convinced not only by the Sultan's own frequent assurances but by numerous extraneous circumstances, that His Highness is very glad to have a Resident British Officer with him; indeed, he says that until I came he never knew what it was to live free from fear and anxiety.