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while the Malays number about 50,000. The country is rapidly increasing in im- portance, and for its further development the Railway is being introduced.

The only duties levied on exports are a royalty of $10 per bhara (400 lbs.) on tin, and a royalty of one-tenth on timber, ataps, and other jungle pro-luce :--The value of the trade in 1884 was as follows:-Imports, $6,091,402; exports, $5,394,787. Tin is the principal export, and its value has increased yearly until 1884, when there was a fall in price; most of it is produced in Larut. The revenue in 1884 was $1,532,487, and the expenditure $1,481,470. There is daily communication by trading steamers between Penang and Larut.

Government.

COUNCIL OF STATE.

Rajah Muda Yusuf, Regent

H.B.M. Resident

The Assistant Residert

Rajah Idris

Datu Tumunggong

S eik Mohamed Tahib

Rajab Mahkota

Chang Ah Kwee

Tan Ah Yam

THE RESIDENCY,

DIRECTORY.

Sir Hugh Low, K.C.M.G., H.B.M.'s Re-

sident

,scretary

Hoch Charles Clifford, cadet Thomas Keyt, chief clerk

F. Light, scond clerk

G. E. Cropley, third clerk L. S. Jayesuria, f urth clerk C. Epbraums, fifth clerk

Chinese el rk a d interpreter

Abdullah, native writer

SUB-TREASURY AND POST-OFFICE BRANCH.

Brian Gaynor, sub-treasurer Joo Haw, postal and telegraph clerk

THE ASSISTANT RESIDENCY. C. V. Creagh, H.B.M.'s Assist. Resident B. Purtinan, assist. magistrate and land

officer

G. Welman, second

T. A. Pereira, second do.

do.

do.

H. W. Bristow, chief clerk

Mahomed Kassim, clerk of court and

Tamil interpreter

No Swee Cheong, Chinese Abdul Sabahan, Hindostani

Inchi Mat, Malay writer

Li Yin Fali, Chinese do.

Othmansah, bailiff and process server

LAND BRANCH.

F. dos Remedios, chief clerk

J. Ferrao, second clerk

Abdulrahaman, registration clerk Sheik Said Bagdali, do. do.

TREASURY (THAIPING).

E. M. Marples, trasurer

W. W. P. Hall, as istaut treasurer

F. J. Rade iff,

clerk

W. C. Epbraums, do. Cheng Ghee, shroff

Mutiusamy Pillay, assistant shroff

POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT. T. Fred. Loft, superintendent

P. D'Aranjo, chief telegraph and post-

master

H. Lang Taylor

Mahomed Kassim

do., Parit Buntar

do., Por Weld

M. Kanthayah, sub. do., K. Kangsar A. P. Nad:r,

sub. do., Matang

Malom d Ibrahim, clerk

L. d'Aranjo,

do.

V. Aroonasallam,

do.

J. P. R. Pereira,

do.

do.

R. Jeremiah,

AUDIT OFFICE.

H. L. Ranking, auditor of State accounts H. Vane, assistant auditor

C. Trotter, clerk

E. Tranchell, clerk

UPPER

COLLECTOR AND MAGISTRATE, Upper PERAK.

do.

do.

C. F. Bozzolo, e llector and magistrate C. R. Mackie, clerk