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KELANTAN
tan and the Duff Development Company, and the resumption by the Government of the sovereign powers conceded to the company over nearly two-thirds of the State,
A new working agreement is being prepared under which the Government of Kelantan undertakes to pay to the company a sum of £300,000 sterling and to grant to them the following rights: (a) The sole right to select_blocks of land for agricultural purposes, amounting in the aggregate to not more than 50,000 acres; (6) the sole prospecting rights for minerals over the area of the concession; and (e) the sole prospecting right over an area of approximately 78 square miles in the Sokor district, and the right to take up mining leases and certain other rights.
According to the Census of 1911 the population is 286,751. There is a police force
of 232 men.
In 1909, the Revenue amounted to $370,959 and the expenditure to $377,0962. In 1910, the Revenue had risen to $419,327 and the Expenditure to $403,552. The public debt at the transference of the suzerainty was $150,000, upon which Siam charged 6 per cent. This debt was taken over by the F.M.S., interest being reduced to 4 per cent. The total value of the trade in 1916 was $3,003,935 against $2,648,571 in 1909. The principal imports were: Cotton piece goods, kerosene, opium, tobacco, salt and woollen goods. Shipping amounted to 206,560 tons. There is regular steamship communication with Singapore.
About 124.200 acres were under cultivation in 1910. This comprised 95,000) aeres devoted to pudi, 18,250 to coconuts, and 5,400 to rubber. Rubber planting is spreading, and 61,550 acres were alienated in 1910 for this purpose mostly to European countries, 63.204 piculs of copra, and 7.261 head of cattle. 1, 480 sheep, 115,044 peultry and 451 pigs were exported to Singapore. Arrangements are being made to improve the breed of cattle and sheep. The revenue from land in 1910 amounted to $104, 174- a large increase on the collection under the Siamese régime, A sago factory was installed at Kota Bahru in 1919. Many unworked mining concessions were cancelled in that year. dredging operations for alluvial gold in the Galas, Nenggiri and Lebir rivers were scarcely so successful in 1910 as in the preceding year, the gold won amounting to 3,698 oz. against 8,507 oz. in 1909. On the other hand, the output of tin-ore, though smail, showed an increase - 399 pieuls against 67 in 1909,
The
GOVERNMENT
DIRECTORY
Ruler His Highness the Sultan Mahomed
IV bin Almerhum Sultan Mohamed British Adviser to the Government of
Kelantan J. S. Mason
Assistant British Adviser to the Govern-,
ment of Kelantan T. W. Clayton (act.)
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MEMBERS OF THE STATE COUNCIL. President-- H. H. the Sultan Members The British Adviser: The Assis
tant British Adviser: H. H. the Raja Negri bin Sultan Mohamed IV; H. H.| the Raja Muda, Tuan Zoinal, Abidin Almerhum Sultan Mohamed: Tungku Temenggong bin Abnerhum Sultan! Ahmat; Tungku Seri maha Raja bin Almerhum Sultan Ahmat; Tungku Seri Pekerma Raja bin Almerhumi Sultan Ahmat: Tungku Besar Tian Yusof bin Almerhum Sultan Ahmat: Tungku Ben- dahara bin Almerhum Sultan Ahmat; Tungku Chik Penambang bin Raja Muda Penambang: Inche Hassan bin Mohamed Salleh,” Datoh Mentrie; Haji Wan Musa, Mufti
Clerk to Council Dato Bentara Stia
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TREASURY
Treasurer Raja Negri bia Sultan Mo
hamed IV
Assistant Treasurer Inche
bin Haji Mohamed Amin
Abdulkadir
AUDIT OFFICE State Auditor J. W. W. Hughes Chief Clerk - M. Jacobs
LAND OFFICE
Officer-in-Charge Tungku Bendahara Superintendent C. W. Bresland Assistant Collector of Land Revenue - T
Khatib Haji Mohamed Sa'id
DISTRICT OFFICES Baru Mengkebang
District Officer–A. J. Starrock Chief Clerk
Inche Abdul Hamid
PASIR PUTEH
Asmail
District Officer –Inche Abolul Latif Chief, Clér) Ing zed by
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