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SELANGOR.
Sultan in Council. The Police Force consists of a superintendent, two European ins pectors, and 305 native non-commissioned officers and men, chiefly Malay.
According to a census taken during the year 1884 the total population of the State amounted to 46,568 persons, and in 1887 was estimated at 97,106, of whom 73,155 are Chinese, 21,584 Malays, 1,261 Indians, 950 Sarkeis (aboriginal tribes), and 156 Europeans.
The principal industry of the State, and from which it derives the largest portion of its revenue, is alluvial tin mining, on which a duty is charged of $12 per bhara (three piculs). The export in 1887 amounted to 131,392 piculs.
In addition to its mineral resources, the State, however, possesses large tracts of land well adapted for agricultural purposes, and the recent removal of restrictions on the free importation of Indian coolies into the Protected Native States renders it possible for European planters to obtain cheap labour and to open estates on a large scale. Small plantations of Coffee, Cooca, and Pepper have already been successfully commenced, and Rice, Sugar, and other products of the Peninsula under native 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 following table shows the total annual revenue and expenditure of the State since the year 1880:-
1880. 1881. 1882. 1883. 1884. 1885. 1886. 1887. 1888.
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1889. Estimated.
$
$
$
$ $ $ $ .
$ Revenue 215,614 235,227 300,423 450,664 494,483 566,411 689,4011,153,896 1,072,890 1,505,652
Expenditure 202,806 234,383 259,081 448,703 314,948 826,526 683,876 885,931 1,053,000|1,431,961
The principa sports are Tin, Hides, Garmwood, Tapioca, Canes, Ratians, and Gutta Percha. !! 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 and Opium.
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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), has been constructed, and was formally opened by Sir F. Weld on the 15th Sept., 1886. In connection with the Railway a line of Telegraph has been erected between the same terminal stations and extended to Malacca via Sungie Ujong, where it is connected with the cables of the E. E., A. & C. Telegraph Co.
GOVERNMENT.
DIRECTORY.
Sultan-His Highness Abdul Samat bin Abmerhom, Rajah Abdulla, K.C.M.G. H.B.M. Resident F. A. Swettenham,
C.M.G.
Member-The Chief Magistrate Kwala
Lumpor
Rajah Sleman (Raja Muda)
Raja Kabar, Kajang
-Yap Ah Shak, (Capitan China)
do.
do.
do.
Kwala Lumpor
MEMBERS OF STATE COUNCIL.
do.
Raja Hassan, Klang
President-H.H. The Sultan
do.
Raja Laut, Kwala Lumpor
Member-The Resident of Selangor
do.
Syed Ziu, Klang