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SUNGEL UJONG-SELANGOR.

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LAND REVENJE DEPARTMENT. Collector of Land B-venue-A. W. O'Sul-

livan

Clerk-F. M. Frederick

PUBLIC WORKS AND SURVEYS. Superintendent-John Locke Assistant Surveyor-Alex. Fraser

-R. J. Jacob

Second

do.

Clerk--R. W. de Vos

GENERAL HOSPITAL.

Apothecary in Charge-J. R. Forsyth Dresser-J. do Rozario

OTHER RESIDENTS.

Durnford, F. G., contractor and surveyor,

Pengkalan Kampas

Hill and Rathborne, contractors

H. F. C. White, manager

S. B. Terry, assistant

SELANGOR.

This is one of the native states of the Malayan Peninsula, and lies between the Dindings and Sungie Ujong on the Straits of Malacca. Its boundaries are not accur ately defined. The government is administered by the Sultan, Abdul Samat, with the assistance of H.B. M.'s Resident, who has a staff of English officials. The population of the state was estimated in 1883 at 42,000, of whom 30,000 are Chinese, and is increasing. The temperature ranges from 57 to 103 deg. Fahr. in the shade; the average annual rainfall is 91 inches. The chief imports consist of rice, salt, opium, tobacco, tea, and oil; while the exports are tin, garu-wood, hides, salt fish, sago, canes, and rattaps. The revenue for 1883 amounted to $450,664 and the expenditure to 448,703. The value of the imports in 1883 amounted to $1,526,614, and of the exports to $2,253,639, giving the total value of trade as 83,780,258. The imports shew an increase of $338,198 over the value of imports in 1882, and the exports of $546,308, giving a total increased value of trade amounting to $884,806. In exports the principal increase was in Tin, of which 71,814 piculs were exported in 1888 aa against 56,970 in 1882.

DIRECTORY,

GOVERNMENT.

Sultan-His Highness Abdul Samat bin

Almerhum, Rajah Abdulla

H.B.M. Resident-F. A.

Swettenham

Acting do.

(absent) J. P. Rodger

MEMBERS OF MIXED COUNCIL. President--H. H. The Sultan, Jagra Langat Member-The Resid. nt of Selangor Member The Chief Magistrate Kwala

Lumpor

do. Raja Kahar, Kajang

do. -Tunku Panglima Raja, Kau-

chong

do. Yap Ah Loy, (Capitain China)

Kwala Lumpor

do.

-Raja Hassan, Klang

do.

Raja Laut, Kwala Lumpor

do. -Syed Zin, Klaug

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RESIDENCY. Kwala Lumpor.

Resident-F. A. Swettenham (absent) Acting Resident J. P. Rodger Secretary-

Clerk-A. W. Fenner

Second Clerk-

Chinese Clerk and Inter.-Chan Ah Thong SUPREME, POLICE, AND GENERAL COURTS, Kwala Lumpor.

Judge-The Resident Chief Magistrate-J. P. Rodger, barrister-

at-law (acting Resident)

Acting Chief Magistrate H. Conway Bel-

field, barrister-at-law, B. A. Oxoń Magistrate-Rajah Laut

do.

do.

-Yap Ah Loy, (Capt. China) -Yap Ah Shac

Malay Interpreter-

Chinese do. -Yeo Boo Seng

Tamil do.

and Clerk-K.Dorasam

Pillay