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NETHERLANDS INDIA
The export of the principal articles in 1905 amounted to:
Rice (bras)
Do. (paddy)...
Coffee
Sugar Tea
Pepper, white Pepper, black Tobacco..
Nutmegs
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44,245,274 kilo
516,578 33,069,961
1,049,910,182
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18,904,376
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83,992,815
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11,858,642 2,061,697 10,920,017 49,025,172 2,752,317 8,614,368 6,886,578
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17,270,394
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1,906,564
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Indigo... Chinchona Gom damar
Gom kopal Gombenzoin
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Caoutchouc
Gutta percha
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Different sorts of Gutta
Pinang nuts
Djarakkernels
Caco-nuts
Rattans
Petroleum
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Benzine
Residium
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3,322,614 118,107 650,157 4,579,995 17,640,327
3,186,969
563,165
Diamonds are found in Borneo, gold in Sumatra, Celebes, Borneo, and Timor, plati- num in Borneo, silver in small quantities in Sumatra and Borneo, copper in Java, Timor and Borneo, iron in Celebes, Sumatra, and Borneo, tin of excellent quality and in large quantities in Banka, Billiton, and Singkep, and of inferior quality in some other islands, lead in Sumatra and Borneo, zine in small quantities in Java and Sumatra, coal in Borneo, Sumatra, Java and in Batjan, jodium and naptha in Java, saltpetre in Java, marble in Java and especially in Sumatra. Salt of excellent quality is produced in Madoera and also in the other islands, by evaporation of the sea water. Kerosene oil is produced in abundance in Java and Sumatra, gives enormous profits, and is also found in Borneo.
The possession of the soil by the natives is strongly protected by law. As a gene- ral rule the ground cannot be sold to foreigners, not even to Dutchmen, nor to their descendants who are born in India. The Government is authorized to dispose of un- cultivated grounds and grant parts of them for a certain period to foreigners (erfpacht). On the 31st December, 1900, the stock of cattle in Java and Madoera consisted of 2,436,031 buffaloes, 2,654,809 other horned cattle, and 418,100 horses (ponies).
REVENUE, FINANCES
The revenue of the colony is derived from different taxes, viz., export and import duties, excise, ground tax, licences, poll tax, succession duties and stamp duties, the rent of farms (opium, gambling-houses, pawn-brokers' shops, etc., etc.), monopolies (opium, salt, pawnhouses), tin mines, forests, railways, mining, and agricultural concessions, the cultivation of coffee, and sundry petty articles. In former years the cultivation of coffee was the principal source of revenue, but of late years there has been a constant decrease. In the residencies ia Java (except Batavia, Bantam, Cheribon, Rembang, Soerabaja, Banjoemas, Soerakarta and Djokjakarta), where the ground is suitable for the cultivation of coffee, a certain number of natives are obliged to plant every year a number of coffee trees, to take care of the plantations, to dry the fruit, and to deliver it into the Government godowns. They are therefore free of ground tax and receive a remuneration at the fixed rate of fifteen guilders per picul.
In nearly all the residencies of Java and Madoera, in Sumatra (except Acheen and dependencies), in Banka, Billiton, and Borneo, private persons are not allowed to make nor to import salt. Fine table salt, salt för medicinal use and salt wanted for packing preserves, can be imported on payment of a duty. The large bulk of the
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