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Enclosure 3. in No. 144.

From RAJA MUDA Yusur to MR. MAXWELL.

Dated 12 Dalhaja 1292, January 9, 1876. I INFORM my friend that if at the present time he is going to seek for bad people in any place, I would like to be informed in order that I may go also with my friend. Should I be incapacitated in any way I will send my sons with my friend, for in my opinion if neither I nor my sons were to go with my friend, I should certainly get a bad name with the Governor. Even if the evil disposed persons in Perak should do me some injury, nevertheless I should like to go with my friend to whatever place he may

True translation,

(Signed) W. E. MAXWELL,

go.

January 10, 1876.

1693/76.

Enclosure 4. in No. 144.

PROCLAMATION.

Deputy Commissioner.

By his Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Colonel in the Corps of Royal Engineers, Governor, Commander-in-Chief and Vice-Admiral of the Colony of the Straits Settlements, &c.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS.

&c. &c.

(Signed)

Whereas British troops have been sent into the country of Perak, in order to punish the murderers of the late Mr. Birch, and those who were engaged in armed resistance to the force employed to secure the punishment of the murderers :

And whereas the troops so sent have surmounted all obstacles and have destroyed Passir Sala, where the murder was committed, after defeating those who vainly attempted to oppose them, and now, notwithstanding the opposition offered, hold the chief places on the Perak River and the town of Kints, command the roads and rivers of the country, and are in military occupation of the whole State of Perak, but the said murderers and others engaged in armed resistance have not yet been captured and punished:

And whereas a notification was issued on the 22nd day of November 1875 directing all

who could furnish information as to the parties concerned in the said murder persons, and outrages, to communicate such information to Government, and an ample reward was offered to those who might procure the arrest of any parties concerned in such outrages as aforesaid:

And whereas information has reached the Government that the under-mentioned parties (amongst others) were engaged in the said murder and outrages, and it is expedient that the amounts to be paid for their apprehension should be definitely and respectively fixed:

Now we do hereby offer for the apprehension of the said persons the following sums, viz.:-

For Pandak Adam Maharajah Lela

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Datu Sagor

Pandak Indut -

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6,000

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3,000

3,000

And we do hereby assure all the chiefs and people of Perak that the pursuit of the murderers and perpetrators of the outrages before referred to, will not be relaxed until justice is fully satisfied by the infliction of adequate punishment on all those concerned.

And we do hereby earnestly exhort the people of Perak to return to their houses, to put an end to all dissensions, to respect and obey the laws, and for the future to live at peace amongst themselves and with their neighbours, so that anarchy and discord may cease and peace may prevail throughout the land.

Given at Penang this 18th day of January 1876.

By his Excellency's command,

A. E. H. ANBON,

Lieut.-Governor, Penang.

(No. 18.)

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No. 145.

GOVERNOR SIR WM. JERVOIS, K.C.M.G., C.B., to the EARL OF CARNARVON. (Received February 14, 1876.)

MY LORD,

Government House, Penang, January 14, 1876

IN paragraphs 6 and 7 of my Despatch, No. 373, dated 30th December 1875,*; informed your Lordship that the strong stockaded position held by hostile Malays in the Bukit Putoos Pass had been taken with little loss, mainly owing to a gallant surprise effected by Captain Channer of the 1st Goorkhas, added to the effect produced by a wide flank movement through the jungle, by which the position was turned.

In paragraph 8 of the same Despatch I mentioned that the forces which had been engaged in this operation would advance into Sri Mananti and Datu Moar on the 24th ultimo by two roads, and that upon completion of the march they would return to Sungie Ujong.

2. I now enclose, for your Lordship's information, two reports by Lieutenant-Colonel Clay and Lieutenant-Colonel Hill, of the 1st Goorkhas, who were in command of the front and flank movements respectively.

Eselosures

i and 2.

Dec. 23 and 24

I also forward a report by Captain Channer, descriptive of the surprise and capture of Encore a the stockades at the entrance of the pass.

I enclose also two plans of this pass, with the position of the stockades shown thereon. Your Lordship will observe from these plans that the position taken up by the Malays was a most formidable one, and that it would have been almost impossible to have taken it by an advance in front.

3. On the 24th ultimo Lieutenant-Colonel Hill, with a party of the same strength as that which had made the flank march by Pantay, started from Terrachee, and after some skirmishing, the enemy retiring before him, he passed Gumatic (a place which bears a bad reputation as the resort of the worst characters of the neighbouring States) and stopped for the night at the campong of the Datu of Moar, who was one of the principal Chiefs who invaded Sungie Ujong territory. On the following morning Lieutenant- Colonel Hill started from this campong after destroying all the property belonging to the Datu of Moar, and the same day effected a junction, without opposition, with Lieutenant-Colonel Clay's column at the campong of the Datu of Sri Menanti.

4. Lieutenant-Colonel Clay, after leaving a small guard at Terrachee, started from that place with the remainder of the force, soon after the departure of Lieutenant- Colonel Hill's column, and arrived at Sri Menanti towards the evening of the same day. Here he discovered a stockade on a small hill which was taken possession of without opposition. In this stockade were found six guns, a quantity of small arms, powder, &c. The whole of the population upon either route had abandoned their homes and taken to the jungle.

5. The distances to the campongs of the Datus of Moar and Sri Menanti having been found much less than had been anticipated, it was decided to push a lightly equipped force to occupy the campong of the Datu of Jumpole, who had sent men to assist the forces of the Datus of Moar and Sri Menanti when invading Sungie Ujong.

Accordingly, on the morning of the 26th ultimo, a party consisting of 80 1st Goor- khas, I officer and 12 non-commissioned officers and men Royal Artillery, and 1 officer Royal Engineers, under the command of Captain Rankin, 1st Goorkhas, started from Sri Menanti, and after marching a distance of 12 miles, halted for the night within six miles of Qualls Jumpole.

This place was found evacuated the following morning. One gun was found in this place and destroyed. After burning the campong, Captain Rankin returned to his bivouac of the previous night, and on the 28th ultimo he again joined the head quarters at Terraches without having experienced any opposition.

I enclose a plan marking the routes taken by the respective columns in the movement from Sungie Ujong to Qualla Jumpole.

6. The march through the hostile States having been accomplished, a force consisting of 1 officer and 12 men Royal Artillery with 1 7-pr. gun, 1 officer and 50 non-commis- sioned officer and men 10th Regiment, and 1 officer and 100 non-commissioned, officers and men 1st Goorkhas, together with a medical and commissariat staff, were retained as a temporary garrison at and about Rassa, the remainder of the troops being transferred

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