KEDAH
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PRISONS
Supdt. Prisons-Dr. A. L. Hoops Acting Supt. Prisons Dr. A. Ã. Woods Chief Goaler-Wan Muhammad Amin
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT State Surgeon Dr. A. L. Hoops Acting State Surgeon Dr. A. A Woods
VETERINARY DEPARTMENT State Veterinary Surgeon J. J. Fleury
SHAREAB COURT
Chief Kathi Haji Wan Slayınan
EDUCATION
Superintendent -- Abdul Manaf
MARINE DEPARTMENT
Acting Harbour Master--Wan Yahia
LAND OFFICE Director of Lands Syed Mansur Aljafiri Instructor G. E. Shaw
SANITARY BOARD
Chairman - H. H. Tunku Ibrahim Vicc-Chairman Dr. A. L. Hoops Secretary J. J. Floury
PERLIS
This is the smallest of the Malay States, the area being about 300 square miles. It is situated to the north of Kedah, and its conditions are practically identical with those of Kedah. Mr. Meadows Frost, the British Adviser, has followed the pobey which marks British control in the Federated States, and the active co-operation of the Raja and his Council has led to a great improvement in the internal administration since the assumption of British suzerainty in 1909.
The population comprises 32 746 persons, of whom 29,497 are Malays, 1,627 Chinese 1,388 Siamese, and only 5 Europeans (3 British). The revenue in 1910 was $114,834 and the expenditure $101,193, against $102,552 and $87,310 respectively in 1909. With the transference of suzerainty there was taken over a debt of $174,796 by the F.M.S. In 1910 the debt was reduced by $20,000.
There is very little to be said of the trade of Perlis. In Alor Star there is one street of shops, whose proprietors besides selling sundry goods also export padi--the staple product of the country-as well as ducks and fowls for the Penang market. The chief imports are cottons for native clothing, kerosene, tobacco and sundry odds and ends used by the Malay country people. In 1910 the State Council abolished the miscellaneous import duty of 3 per cent, on all imported goods not specifically mention- ed, and now the only duties raised are on spirits, beer, wine, tobacco and kerosene or other oils used for heating or lighting purposes. The miscellaneous export duty of 5 per cent, on all goods not specifically mentioned (such as tin and guano) have also been abolished. In 1910, there were 2,532 piculs of tin-ore exported against 2,182 in 1909.
Many of the lime-stone hills of Perlis contain caves rich in guano deposits. A company has been formed by some Dutchmen in Penang, called the Straits Guano Company, to work the deposits, and they have obtained a lease of seven hills. The Government retained the best known hill for the use of local cultivators. The company has made two miles of earth road, which opens up good country, where people are anxious to take up land. The quantity of guano exported in 1910 was 838 tons, which paid export duty at the rate of $2 per ton. After a certain date, the company is bound to extract not less than 500 tons per month, and the export duty will be 1 per cent. ad valorem of the market price in Penang.
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MEMBERS OF State COUNCIL
H. H. Raja Said Alwi, president
Meadows Frost, adviser
Tuan Syed Salin
Dato Wan Teh
Haji Mahmoud Noh
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
Adviser-Meadows Frost
DIRECTORY
Treasurer and Commissioner of Lands
Syed Salim bin Syed Mohamed
Chief Judge Vacant
Junior Court Judge-Che Mahmud bin
Dato Yahia
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Collector of Revenue and Customs Tunku
Abdullah bin Tunku,Md. Saman
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