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74 Handbook of the 1770), and in a work published fifty years ago, Selangor is quaintly described as follows :—' of all the Malayan States on the Peninsula, it labours under the heaviest mala fama on the score of piracy, man-stealing, manslaughter, and similar peccadilloes of the code of Malayan morals.' " Of the Malay population of the State at the present date there is little to say, except to emphasize the contrast noted by an eminent authority between ' the frank simplicity and humour, harmonising well with a certain grave dignified self-possession and genuine politeness, which characterise the manner of the Malays of Kedah, and the sinister and impudent bearing of the maritime and semi-piratical Malay of the South.' " There is now a large population of settlers from Sumatra and Java, who are influencing materially the character of the Mohammedan population." The series of struggles between various native chiefs which brought the State under the more immediate notice of the British Grovernment at Singapore, commenced in the year 1867, when Tunku Ziya-ed-Din, a brother of the Sultan of Kedah, married a daughter of the Sultan of Selangor, and was appointed by him to be his viceroy. The authority of Tunku Ziya-ed-Din was not recognised by Eaja Mahdi, a grandson of the late Sultan of Selangor, and a fierce contest was waged between these two Chiefs from 1867 to 1873. The Sultan was powerless to put an end to this prolonged strife, in which not only Malay Rajas, but even Chinese miners took an active part, and the struggle was carried on, with varying success, until 1873, when the Bendahara of Pahang, at the instance of the Grovernment of the Straits Settlements, sent assistance to Tunku Ziya-ed-Din, by means of which he was enabled to obtain a complete victory over the rebels, and at least a temporary cessation of hostilities. The occurrence of an atrocious case of piracy off the Langat River in the following year led to the direct intervention of the British Government, and shortly afterwards, at the request of the Sultan, Sir Andrew Clarke, then Governor of the Straits Settlements, sent Mr. J. Guthrie Davidson, first Resident of Selangor, and Mr. F. A. Swettenham (the present Governor of the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner for the Federated Malay States), an officer of the Straits Settlements, to assist the Sultan in the administration of the Government, since which time (1874) the peace of the State has not been disturbed, and its prosperity has steadily increased.
— Federated Malay States. 75 The total revenue for the years 1899 and 1900 amounted Revenue and to $6,692,830 and $6,303,165 respectively. The principal ^^penditure sources of revenue being Customs, Excise, Railways and Land. The expenditure for the same periods was $3,414,551 and $4,944,160, the principal items being Estabhshments, Public Works and Railways. The balance to the credit of the State on January 1st, 1901, amounted to $6,663,316, including a loan of $3,000,000 to the State of Pahang. The following trade values were recorded in 1899 and 1900 :— Exports Imports 1899. 1900. 20,615,597 17,719,773 21,798,443 18,406,570 The chief exports in 1900, exclusive of tin, of which mention is made elsewhere, were :— Coffee ... 689,309 Grambier 50,150 Pepper 89,468 Blachan and Salt Fish ... 154,887 The chief imports were : Opium ... 1,680,910 Rice ... 3,527,206 Live Stock ... 492,722 SaltEish ... 282,138 Specie and Notes ... 4,833,830 The only import duties charged are those upon opium and spirituous Hquors. The export duty on tin varies from 10'94 per cent, when tin is at $96 per bhara to 13"33 per cent, with tin at $210 per bhara. This duty is payable on alluvial tin only, the duty on lode tin being fixed at half the above rates in consideration of the greater expense in working a lode. The duty is reckoned on the price telegraphed daily from Singapore One pikul=100 catties=:133i lbs. One bhara=:=3 pikuls=400 lbs.
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