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NETHERLANDS INDIA
have they a synagogue. The Government does not interfere with Mahommedan worship, but pilgrims to Mecca require to take out passports. Chinese religion is as free as all
other kinds of public worship.
The Educational Departinent sustains a great many schools for Europeans and natives. At Batavia, Samarang, and Soerabaja are schools for higher education; Batavia and Soerabaja have also a school for mechanical engineers, etc.; and Batavia one for craftsmen. There are, further, 143 Government schools and 29 private schools in Java, and 41 Government schools and one private school in the other islands, having on the 31st December 1905, 19,149 pupils, among whom were 4,460 native children. Five colleges are devoted to the instruction of native schoolmasters, four to the instruction of sons of native officials and one (at Batavia), to the education of native physicians, while 675 Government vernacular schools and 1,256 private vernacular schools give instruction to upwards of 162,000 pupils. The greater number of these private schools are managed by missionaries, In Djokjakarta, Soerabaja and Samarang are private schools for mechanical engineers and handicraft. In Buitenzorg is an agricultural school for Europeans and natives.
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 and Lawang.
TRADE, NAVIGATION
Riouw, Bengkalis, Singradja (Bali), and Sabang are free ports. The other ports are open for either 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, Soerabaja, Padang, Siboga, Baros, Singkel, Menado, Gorontalo, Ternate, Amboina Neira (Banda) and Macassar
The value of imports in 1905 was in Java and Madoera
In the other islands
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131,711,026 guilders
64,458,781
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Total...
196,169,807
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The value of exports in 1995 was from Java and Madoera... 184,174,756 guilders
and from the other islands
...
107,895,724
>>
Total...
292,070,480
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The mercantile marine of Netherlands India consisted in December, 1905, of 2,636 ships, of which 183 were steamers, with a tonnage of 382,357 cubic metres.
In 1905 there arrived from abroad
4,240 steamers
54 European sailing vessels... 1,883 native sailing vessels
Total... 6,177 vessels with a tonnage of
and in the same year departed
4, 113 steamers
tonnage
"
...
8,171,361 cubic metres
117,533 257,145
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8,546,039
57 European sailing vessels... 1,938 native sailing vessels
6,408
12
8,298,576 cubic metres
tonnage
160,582
**
251,028
8,710,186
"
Import duties are imposed in Java and Madoera, 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, Menado the Residencies Amboina, Ternate and Timor, and in the Government of Celebes, but not in the islands of the Riouw residency, the isle of Bali and in the Assistant Residency of 8. New Guinea. The import duty is fixed 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
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