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SELANGOR.

697

The following table shows the total annual revenue and expenditure of the State since the year 1877:-

1877. 1878. 1879.

1880. 1881. 1882. 1883. 1884.

1885.

1886. Estimated.

$

$

$

$

$

$ $

$ $ $ Revenue 226,853 189,897 184,387 215,614 235.227 300,423 450,664 494,483 566,411 637,405

Expenditure... 232,900 187,624 185,729 202,806 234,383 259,081 448,703 514,948 826,526 566,988

The principal exports are Tin, Hides, Garmwood, Tapioca, Canes, Rattans, and Gutta Percha. The principal imports are Opium, Salt, Salt-fish, Rice, Oil, Tobacco, and Tea, and from the commencement of the year 1885, all duties have been abolished, with the exception of those on Tin and Opium. The value of the trade of the state in 1885 was $4,820,345 as against $3,949,166 in 1884.

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 also been erected between the same terminal stations.

GOVERNMENT.

DIRECTORY.

Sultan-His Highness Abdul Samat bin

Abmerhum, Rajah Abdulla

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

(absent)

Acting do. -J. P. Rodger

MEMBERS OF STATE Council.

President-H.H. The Sultan

Member The Resident of Selangor

do. The Chief Magistrate Kwala

do. do.

Lumpor Rajah Sleman

-Raja Kahar, Kajang Member-Tunkur Panglima Raja, Kan-

chong

do. Yap Ah Shak, (Capitan China)

Kwala Lumpor

do. --Raja Hassan, Klang

do.

-Raja Laut, Kwala Lumpor

do.

Syed Zin, Klang

KWALA LUMPOR.

RESIDENCY.

SUPREME, POLICE, AND GENERAL COURTS. Kwala Lumpor.

Judge-The Resident

Chief Magistrate-J. P. Rodger, barrister-

at-law (acting Resident)

Magistrate-H. Conway Belfield, barrister- at-law, B. A. Oxon., ac*. chief magistrate Magistrate-Rajah Laut

do. -Yap Ah Shak (Capt. China) do. -Teo Ah Yok

Chief Clerk-A. W. Harper

Malay Clerk-Mahomed Noor Chinese Interpreter-Yeo Boo Seng Tamil do. and Clerk--K. Dorasamy

Pillay

LAND OFFICE.

Commissioner of Lands-J. P. Rodger (ac-

ting Resident)

Acting do. -H. Conway Belfield Collector of Land Revenue-H. Conway

Belfield

Resident-F. A. Swettenham, C.M.G.. Inspector of Mines-Fenton W. Hill

(absent)

Acting Resident---J. P. Rodger

Chief Clerk-A. W. Fenner

Second Clerk-J. C. Pasqual

Third do. Ho Koh Leng

Chief Clerk-J. W. Bristow 1st Surveyor-S. B. R. Reyne 2nd Surveyor -D. G. Campbell 3rd Surveyor-W. T. Wood Draughtsman-W. H. de Silva

Chinese Clerk and Inter.-Chan Ah Thong Clerk-Heng Seng Cheok