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SELANGOR

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.

$

1889.

1889.

$

$

$

$

$

S

$

$ Revenue .... 215,614 235.227 300,423 150,664 494,483 566,411 689,401 1,153,896 1,072,890 1,828,427

Expenditure 202,806 234,383 259,081 448,703 514,948 826,526, 683,876 885,9311,053,000 1,394,181

81448,703514,948

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. At the commencement of the year 1885, all duties were abolished, with the exception of those on Tin and Opium.

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.

DIRECTORY

GOVERNMENT

Sultan-His Highness ABDUL SAMAT BIN ALMERHOM, RAJAH ABDULLA, K.C,M.G.

H.B.M. Resident-W. E. MAXWELL, C.M.G.

COUNCIL OF STATE

H. H. The Sultan, president The Resident of Selangor

The Chief Magistrate Kwala Lumpor Rajah Suleiman (Raja Muda) Raja Kahar, Kajang

KWALA LUMPOR

RESIDENCY

British Resident-W. E. Maxwell, C.M.G. Secretary Julius Hay French (acting) Chief Clerk-Gerald H. Leembruggen First Clerk-Chan Ah Thong Second Clerk-F. L. D'Rozario Third Clerk-F. J. A Goonting Fourth Clerk-J. D. Rozario Chinese Clerk and Interpreter-

AUDIT DEPARTMENT

Auditor-W. H. West Assistant do.-H. Laugher Chief Clerk-C. P. Anchant

Clerks A. W. Pereira, M. Rangasamy Pillay, G. Neubronner, F. Thomas, L. V. Govindasamy Pillay

BOTANICAL GARDEN

Superintendent-Alfred R. Venning

EDUCATION

Inspector of Schoools-

Head Master-R. M. MacIntyre

Yeap Kuan Seng (Capitan China) Kwala

Lumpor

Cheow Ah Yeok (Magistrate), K. Lumpor Raja Hassan, Klang

Raja Laut, Kwala Lumpor Kaja Haji Bột, Kwala Lumpor

Master Malay School-Inchi Ibrahim Master Chinese School--Fu Ngan Theam Master Tamil School-Nataraya Chitty

LAND OFFICE

Commur, of Lands-H. Conway Bellfield Act. Collr. Land Revenue-G. W. Welman Inspector of Mines-Fenton W. Hill Chief Clerk-J. W. Bristow Second Clerk-R. B. Stewart Third Clerk -V. A. Pinto

Chinese Clerk-Joh Ah Weng

Surveyors-J. Wellford, T. W. Raymond,

G. M. Stafford, F. W. Irby, O. E. Jansz Draughtsmen-W. T. Wood, W. H. de Silva,

B. Armstrong

MEDICAL

Residency Surgeon, Health Officer, Me- dical Officer for India Immigrants, and Registrar of Births and Deaths-A. W. Sinclair, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., L.M., EDINR. Apothecaries-R. M. Keun, M. Foenander Clerks R. Goonting, J. N. Nunis, S. de

Cruz, E. da Silva