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All the documents in this volume, except the first and last, are

connected with a committee, appointed in July 1814, to adjust

unsettled accounts in the Eastern District of Java. Reports from

this committee, on Cheribon, Tegal, Pekalongan, Semarang,

Surakarta, Jokyakarta, Besuki, Banyawangi, Sumanep, and Gresik,

occupy the greater part of the volume. All the documents, except

the last, pertain to 1814.

p. 1: Title.

pp. 3˗4: List of contents .

1, pp. 7˗18: Major General M. Nightingall to the Honble

T. S. Raffles. Fort Rotterdam (Celebes), 21st June 1814.

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“My public Dispatches will explain to you very fully all

that has occurred since my arrival here . . . it was quite

impossible to avoid the Rupture which has taken place with

the Rajah of Boni. . . . The Bongese Town has been

destroyed.... The new Town, I have named (in compli-

ment to my friend the Resident) Phillipstown.... I shall

merely advert to a point not noticed in them (the dispatches),

I mean the idea of introducing any part of our Judicial or

Revenue System ... at present it would throw all this part

of the Country into a flame. . .. I expect to receive an

answer from the Boni People in a few days and if they agree

to the election of another Rajah … I shall embark ...

about the 28th Instant and proceed to Somanap from whence

I shall commence by land my military Tour of Java ....”

[Autograph.]

2, pp. 19˗25: (Raffles) to I. G. Bower (Bauer), Esqre,

Accountant General and G. A. Addison, Esqre, Deputy Secy

… Buitenzorg, 1st July 1814. No signature.

This official letter gives instructions to Messrs. Bauer and

Addison, deputed to investigate and adjust unsettled accounts

in the eastern districts of Java, preparatory to the intro-

duction of the new Revenue and Judicial Regulations on

1st August 1814. The instructions relate to˗˗The settlement

of arrears; the state of the revenue settlement of each

district; the state of public institutions at Semarang and

Surabaya; Salt monopoly; the establishment of the Letter

Post (Mr. Ainslie, the new Postmaster-General, to accompany

them); Carimon Java; the Police at Semarang and

Surabaya; &c.

3, pp. 27˗32: Thos. S. Raffles to (? Mr Bauer). Buitenzorg,

1st July 1814. “The object of your proceeding to the

Eastern Districts is to examine into the accounts of the

different Residencies, to adjust all unsettled accounts with

the Regents and others, and generally to make yourself

acquainted with the principles of the New Revenue System,

and the actual Revenues derivable under it.... Mr Addison

. . . has been joined with you in a Commission. . . .

Mr Addison will have separate instructions from me ....

The principles of an entire new System of Political Economy

have been introduced throughout Java since the Establish-

ment of the British Government.... I may perhaps from

being the founder of the new System ... have been led to

judge too favourably of what I consider in some measure a

Child of my own.[See Substance of a Minute… 11^th February 1814.

London, 1814.] I shall be happy to stand corrected by

your more just Estimate....” The official instructions

given in the previous document are summarised, and “Fixing

the Establishments to take effect from the 1st of August” is

to be one their principal duties ....

4, pp. 35˗333: These pages contain 11 separate reports

by Messrs. Bauer and Addison. One of these (x) is a general

report, the others being local. The reports are generally

given in the same form, dealing with the specific points

of the instructions. Statistical tables are added for each

district, under the heads˗˗

General Administration (expenditure).

Abstract estimate of receipts and disbursements.

Native Chiefs who receive land and money . ...

Pensions to Europeans.

The reports are in the form of letters to the Lieutenant-

Governor. Only one of them is signed, but they are all

copies.

(i) pp. 35˗57: Report on Cheribon. 14th July 1814.

(ii) pp. 59˗87: Report on Tagal. 16th July 1814.

(iii) pp. 89˗118: Report on Paccalongan. 9th August

1814.

(iv) pp. 119˗199: (a) Samarang. General Report. 14th

August 1814. (b) Samarang. Report on the Institutions.

15th August 1814. The former deals with “the fixed and

ordinary details of the Residency,” and the latter (b) with

“the Public lnstitutions established in the Town,” e.g. the

European Orphan Chambers which administer the estates

of Europeans dying intestate and other estates confided to the

institution. The Native Orphan Chamber; the Church, &c.

(v) pp. 201˗218: Report on Souracarta. 29th July 1814.

(vi) pp. 219˗244: Report on Djojocarta. 6th August 1814.

(vii) pp. 245˗261: (a) Report on the offer to restore to the

late holder of the Estate of Besuki....[See Blagden’s

Cat. Mack. MSS., Pr.35, 18, and 82, 33 (a) (h).] 29th August 1814.

Enclosure:

“I do declare that I Han Tjan Pit, late Proprietor of

Bisuki and Panaroekan, did of my own free will transfer to

the British Government the Estates of Bisuki and Panaroekan

for the sum of 400,000 Spanish Dollars ....”

(b) (A further report) dated Sourabaya, 3rd September

1814. This gives in detail the conditions of the contract

with Han Chan Pit, and the proposed arrangement with his

creditors.

(viii) pp. 263˗278: Report on Banyowangie. 24th Septem-

ber 1814.

(ix) pp. 279˗290: Report on Sumanap. 26th September

1814.

(x) pp. 291˗309: Extract of a Report . . . from the

Accountant-General and Deputy Secretary [Messrs, Bauer and Addison] . . . deputed to

investigate and to adjust unsettled accounts in the Eastern

Districts of Java, dated Sourabaya, 27th September 1814.

No signature. This is almost wholly concerned with reduce

tions of establishments. “Our first and principal attention

was disected agreeably to your repeated and particular

instructions to the reductions by every practicable means

of the expenses of Civil Establishment . . . the slightest

diminution beyond what has already been effected would be

attended with positive detriment. . . . In short in every

Department we have endeavoured to the utmost to reduce

the scale of Expenditure ....”

(xi) pp. 311˗333: Report on Gressie (Gresik). – September 1814.

5, pp. 335˗337: The Resident at Cheribon to Charles Assey

Esq., Secy to Govt. 17 Novr 1815. The mail coach has been