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metals, machinery, raw materials, as lime and wood, and articles of art and science are free of import duty. Export duty is only paid on a few articles according to value of quantity: f.i. hides 2 or 5 per cent., birds' nests 6 or 10 per cent., or f.2.25 for 1 K. G. birds' skins 10 per cent. caoutchouc, getalı-pertja, damar, benzoin, camphor, and other kinds of gum and resin, and rotan, 5, 8 or 10 per cent. of the value, tin f.3.50 for 100 kilogrammes. Transit cargo is free.
An excise is charged on inland arrack (only in Java and Madoera), kerosene oil, gasoline and benzine (f.2.50 per hectolitre), on matches of all kinds when each stick has only one head f.0.70 per gross of boxes each box containing no more than seventy- nine sticks (f.005 per gross of boxes more for each additional number of five sticks or part thereof), when each stick has two heads f.1.40 per gross of boxes, each box containing no more than seventy-nine sticks (f.0.10 per gross of boxes more for each additional number of five sticks or part thereof) and on tobacco exported from Java to Borneo.
Commercial intercourse is much advanced by the Steam Navigation Company- "Koninklyke Paketvaart Maatschappij," possessing 70 ocean-steamers plying across the whole Archipelago, and 4 wheelboats for the inland trade. splendid accommodation for saloon passengers.
PUBLIC WORKS
These steamers have
On the 1st Jan., 1911, there were 2,230 kilometres of railway in Java and 323 kilo- metres in Sumatra; 2,024 kilometres of tramway in Java and Madoera and 602 kilometres in Sumatra. The gross earnings during the year 1910 were: (in millions of guilders) Government railways 23.2, Government tramways 0.7, Private railways 6.7, Private tramways 11 2. The Government telegraphs extend over 9,838.16 kilometres, the Govern- ment telegraph cables over 5,328.43, together 15,166.59 kilometres. Government telephone systems were in operation on the 1st January, 1911, in the districts of Batavia, Semarang, Soerabaja, Soekaboemi, Tjiandjoer, Bandoeng, Garoet, Taikmalaja, Djokja- karta, Soerakarta, Madioen, Djombang, Modjokerto, Pasoeroean, Probolinggo. Djambi and Palembang. The balance of revenue and expenditure of the Post and Telegraph services showed a deficit of f.17,081.08,5; of the Government telephony it showed a profit of f. 362,098.29. The number of stations was 487 for Java and Madoëra and 230 for the other islands. The number of Government telephone-exchanges was 55, and that of the subscribers 5,534, with 6,403 telephones.
DIRECTORY
BESTUUR VAN NEDERLANDSCH-INDIE.
Gouverneur-Generaal---A. W. F. IDENBURG
Adjudant van Z. E.--C. M. Kan, Luitenant-Kolonel der Artillerie,
tevens intendant der Gouvernements-hôtels
Do
-D. A. de Ronde, Luitenant-ter-Zee der 2 de klasse
Do. --V. F. J. Boumeester, 1st Luitenant der Infanterie.
RAAD VAN NEDERLANDSCH-INDIE
Vice-President-D, F. W. van Rees
Leden--Mr. C. H. Nieuwenhuys, Mr. J. G. Pott, R. H. Ebbink A. J. Baron Quarles de Quarles
Secretaris--O. A. Uhlenbeck
ALGEMEENE SECRETARIE
Algemeene Secretaris-G. J. Staal
Eerste Secretaris van het Gouvernement-
Jhr. Mr. A. C. D. de Graeff Secretarissen van het Gouvernement
Mr. H. A. Kindermann, G. R. Erdbrink
ALGEMEENE REKENKAMER Voorzitter-H. M. la Chapelle
Leden F. A. Lecleryde Courcelles, A. Suermondt, H. W. Kloos, A. J. G. A. Wiemans, B. Th. W. van Hasselt, W. J. C. van Bennekom Secretaris--W. Brouwer
DEPARTEMENT VAN JUSTITIE Directeur- Mr. J. Reepmaker Secretaris-Mr. W. Sonneveld
RECHTSWEZEN
HOOGGERECHTSHOF VAN NED. INDIE President---Mr. A. J. Andrée Wiltens Vice-President-Mr. S. J. Hirsch
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