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NETHERLANDS INDIA
In a great many places private persons can be admitted into the military hospitals, while in the large towns general hospitals are maintained for poor natives and Chinese and other hospitals for infectious diseases. Asylums for the insane are maintained at Buitenzorg, Soerabaia, and Semarang.
TRADE, NAVIGATION
Riouw, Bengkalis, Macasser, 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 can be exported without payment of import or export duties, are established at Batavia Cheribon, Semarang, Soerabaia, Padang, Sïboga, Baros, Singkel, Menado and Corontalo. The value of imports in 1901 was in Java and Madoera 150,241,461 guilders in the other islands
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Total...
78,987,608
22,229,069
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The value of exports in 1901 was from Java and Madoera..... 174,912,468 guilders and from the other islands
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Total...
80,329,246
255,241,714
The mercantile marine of Netherlands India consisted in December, 1901, of 2,383 ships, of which 170 were steamers, with a tonnage of 330,968 cubic metres.
In 1901 there arrived from abroad
3,476 steamers
145 European sailing vessels... 1,933 native sailing vessels
Total... 5,554 vessels with a tonnage of and in the same year departed
tonnage 5,324,328 cubic metres
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158,762 169,306
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5,852,396,,
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3,418 steamers
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tonnage
147 European sailing vessels... 1,899 native sailing vessels
5,363,020 cubic metres
125,770 "1 163,513
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5,464
5,652,303
Import duties are imposed in Java and Madoern, the West and East coast of Sumatra, Acheen (except the isle of Way), Bencoolen, Lampongs, Palembang, Banka, Billiton, S. E. Borneo, W. Borneo, E. Coast of Sumatra, Indragiri, Lombok and Menado, but not in the islands of the Riouw residency, in the Government of Celebes and in the Residencies Amboina, Ternate (except Banggaai) and Timor. The import duty 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., damar. benzoin, rattan 5 per cent. (S. E. Borneo 8 per cent.,) of the value, tin f.3:50 for jo kilogrammes. Transit cargo is free.
An excise is charged on liquors of 5 per cent., on alcohol, on kerosene oil (f250 per hectoliter), on matches f.0 70 per gross boxes, each box containing no more than seventy-nine sticks (f.005 per gross boxes more for each additional number of five sticks or part therefrom) and on tobacco exported from Java to Borneo.
Commercial intercourse is much advanced by the Steam Navigation Company "Koninklyke Paketvaart Maatschappij," possessing 40 steamers plying across the whole Archipelago. These steamers have splendid accommodation for saloon passengers.
PUBLIC WORKS
There are now open 1,914 kilometres of railway in Java and 3125 kilometres in Sumatra; and 1,705 kilometres of tramway in Java and Madura. The telegraphs extend over 7,750-17 kilometres, the telegraph cables over 2,156:51, together 9,906-08 kilometres. The net receipts of the Post and Telegraph services amounted to f.178,555702; the number of stations was 391 for Java and Madoera and 106 for the other islands.
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