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NETHERLANDS INDIA
TRADE, NAVIGATION.
Riouw, Macasser, Menado, Kema, Ternate, Amboina, Kajeli, Banda and Koepang are free ports. The other ports are open either for general trade or only for native coasting navigation. Entrepôts, where goods can be stored and sold and from whence they cañ be exported without payment of import or export duties, are established at Batavia, Cheribon, Semarang, Soerahaia, Padang, Siboga, Baros and Singkel.
The value of imports in 1897 was in Java and Madoera in the other islands
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117,498,408 guilders
64,207,140
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Total...
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181,705,548
The value of exports in 1897 was from Java and Madoera..... 142,197,962 guilders and from the other islands
Total...
68,216,316 29
210,414,278
The mercantile marine of Netherlands India consisted in December, 1896, of 2,122 ships, of which 84 were steamers, with a tonnage of 247,815 cubic metres.
In 1897 there arrived from abroad
3,887 steamers
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206 European sailing vessels... 1,632 native sailing vessels
tonnage 4,179,710 cubic metres
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373,215 135,088
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Total... 5,725 vessels with a tonnage of
4,688,013
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and in the same year departed
3,786 steamers
tonnage
4,004,735 cubic metres
197 European sailing vessels... 1,518 native sailing vessels
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361,105 129,457
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5,501
4,495,297
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Import duties are imposed in Java and Madoera, the West coast of Sumatra, Ben- coolen, Lampongs, Palembang, Banka, Billiton and S.E. Borneo, but not in the islands of the Riouw residency and in the Eastern part of the Archipelago, viz., Celebes, Moluccos and Timor. The import sluty is fixed ad valorem or according to the weight or the dimensions, most of the goods being separately mentioned in the tariff. Most of the metals, machinery, raw materials, as lime and wood, horses and cattle, and articles of art and science are free of import duty. Export duty is only paid on a few articles according to value or quantity, for instance, hides 2 per cent., birds' nests 6 per cent. of the value, coffee f.1, tin f.3:50, indigo f.10 for 100 kilogramines. Transit cargo is free. In the East coast of Sumatra the import duty is not so high and more
articles are free.
An excise is charged on liquors of 5 per cent., on alcohol, on kerosine oil ( f.2 per hectoliter), on matches f.0.1 for 144 small boxes, and on tobacco,
Commercial intercourse is much advanced by the Steam Navigation Company "Koninklyke Paketvaart Maatschappij," possessing 31 steamers plying across the whole Archipelago. These steamers have splendid accommodation for saloon passengers.
PUBLIC WORKS.
There are now 1,725 kilometres of railway in Java and 3125 kilometres in Sumatra : and 6675 kilometres of tramway in Java. The telegraphs extend over 6,833-88 kilometres, the telegraph cables over 1,672:53, together 8,506:41 kilometres. The net receipts of the Post and Telegraph services amounted to f.475,561,51; the number of offices was 344 for Java and Madoera and 93 for the other islands.
DIRECTORY
BESTUUR VAN NEDERLANDSCH-INDIE
Gouverneur Generaal-JoNkheer ('arel HERMAN AART VAN DER WIJCK Adjudant van Z. E.- J. J. Staal, Luitenant Kolonel der Genic, tevens
intendant der Gouvernements hôtels
Do. -J. B. A. Jonckheer Luitenant-ter-zee der 1st klasse
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--J. Ph. Weitzel, Eerste luitenant der Infanterie
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- C. M. Kan, Eerste luitenant der Artillerie
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