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and original institutions o f the people, A competent provision in lands and in money
■has beepi allotted to such chiefs, and it therefore naturally becomes both their duty
and their interest} to encourage industry and to protect the inhabitants.
g. The government ditfafls will be le t generally to the heads o f villages, who w ill be
held responsible for the proper management °£ such portions o f the copntoy as may be
placed under their superintendence and authority. 'They will r,e-lest these lands to
the cultivators, under certain restrictions, at such a rate as shall not b'e found oppress
iv e ; and a ll tenants under government-will b e protected in their just Tights,' so
long as they shall continue to perform their correspondent engagements faithfully;
for it ig. intended to promoterextensive industry and consequent improvement, b y giving
the people,up interest jn the *sbil,- and by instituting' amongst them an acknowledged^
claim to the possession o f the lands, that they may be thug,'induced tojfijM^_for their
own profit and advantage.
* 3 . The system, o f vassalage and’ forced deliveries has been abq^gfcgd generally
throughout the island : but in 'th e Batavian and Preangen Regencies such-a modi-
fication o f 'the former arrangements has been carrifed 'into execution,’ afe-it: was
found -practiritble,' under existing circumstances, to introduce; ahd jfrwisionally
tbe'^BIandong system will he continued to a certain extent in the eeritral Surest
Districts.
4 . To encourage th e cuRivaiidn o f So important an article u f export 'Us 'coffee'
may:becouie, when the trade df Europe and Affilrica may be thrownlifpen to-tree
Competition, government have stipulated to receive any surplus quantity o f that-com-
ihodfty from the cultivators, at a reasonable and "fixed ratej when a'higheri prrieh'for- i f
cannot h e obtained in the market.
'T o extend 'free-trade' and commerce, and to promote a sph^-pfr enfe'r jfrfee'rahd
Speculation amongst the inhabitants, the Bhoom farms Have been'abolished, the duties
upon the principal articles o f export have been taken off, and -it-isintended^-rto modify
and amendhbe custom-house regulations Before th e Tst January next.'5. Th e tolFgates
and transport duties o f th e interior have been diminished as much jaspossible; and in
d ie gradual progression o f improvement they will be finally abolished-
,Jte.' Everyfacility will be afforded tow!ards obtaining teak timber 'forth® construction
o f small craft, and o f such additional tonnage as, upon the improved 'sysfeqj;,: frill be
uhdotibtedly: required.
" 7 . 'Gbvferriment Have taken upon themselves« the exclusive managemdht of the
salt department. I t appears, that the inhabitanls in mOTf pafTs" of tfie 'lSland paid a
very irregular and exorbitant price for this necessary article’ of consumption; frhile
the system-adopted by.the farmers was radically vicious^ and equally oppressive and
vexatious to the people, as it was detrimental to the immediate interests of government.
■ 'Such mn improved system’ for the supply eif%hlt- will be immediately adopted, as may*
dppear advisable; and in this and every other arrangement, the government propose
the
S i l l m motion of the pubhc prosperity of this colony. U r t tag8e , ud ft, P„0.
Given at Batavia, this 15Hx day. of October, 3813. . _
By order of the Honourable the
Lieutenant Governor ’in^puncif," '
, C. A§sky,
By me, the Lieutenant Governor of the
Island of Java and its Dependencies,
T . S. RAFFLES.
iCoujfoir.' Chamber,
-' ■ I’Oct.JSj 181$. - j
S e eT e h if to Government.
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