Mss Eur Mack Private 76

p. i: Table of Contents (in pencil).

1, pp. 3-18: Batavia, 31 July 1809. Translation into very bad English of part of a state paper by Gov(r) Gen(l) Daendels, of which another and rather better translation is given in 4 infra, q.v. The present extract corresponds with the last part of that section, beginning on p. 88 at 1. 33. The two pieces following are appendices to this.

2, pp. 19-38: Extract out the Registre of the Resolution of his Excellency the Marshal & Governor General-Samarang [=Sĕmarang] the l(ste) September 1808. Daendels scheme for the reorganization of North Eastern Java: 82 arts. following on the preamble. Translated from a Dutch original, printed in Van der Chijs, Nedetrlandsch-Indisch Plakaatboek, 1602-1811, (1896), 15(e) Deel, pp. 157-83, under the above date and the title Organisatie van het bestuur over Java's N.O. kust. The translation omits a good deal of the list of figures, &c., of art. 81. For another translation see 5 infra.

3, pp. 39-52: Samarang [=Sĕmarang], 27 September 1808. Instructions for the respective Regents, under the former Government of Java's North east coast. 33 arts. Translated from a Dutch original, printed in Van der Chijs, op. cit., pp. 292-301, under the above date, also in Staat der Nederlandsche Oostindische Bezittingen, onder het Bestuur van den Gouverneur-Generaal Herman Willem Daendels, &c. (1814), Bijlagen, 10 Stuk, Organique Stukken, Java's Noord-Oost-Kust, No. 17. For another translation see 7 infra.

4, pp. 53, 55-100: Batavia, 31 July 1809: Original Translation of Marshal Daendels' Organization' of Java in 1808-9. p. 55: A short Statement of the most remarkable improvements and alterations, which have taken place in the different departments of Government & Administration in Hollands India since the l(st) January, 1808. The chief matters dealt with herein are :- p. 55: Administrative redistribution of the territorial divisions of Java; increase of the power of the Governor-General; appointment of a Lieutenant Governor-General ; other modifications in the central administration and judicature ; p. 60: Reforms in the system under which coffee was delivered to Government; dissolution of the college of superintendents of lands and dikes in the Batavian territories; sale, of lands in the district of Tangĕrang ; p. 66: Abolition of the restriction imposed on landowners which prevented them from charging more than one tenth of the produce as rent; [Daendels' economic ideas are curiously illustrated by the following argument: "The common principle, that an augmentation of taxes, as long as, it does not exceed the means of the subject, will tend not only to raise all branches of industry, but encrease the. welfare of individuals, the produce of their activity and labour, and the revenues of Government, is likewise to be applied to the profits which the proprietors of landed estates will know to draw from their farmers," a naive restatement of the old sic vos non vobis maxim]; various reductions in public expenditure and other improvements in matters of finance and account keeping; strengthening of Military defences; improvements in the medical department; abandonment of the unhealthy castle of Batavia and establishment of new headquarters for Government ; p. 79: Complete reorganization of the administration of North Eastern Java by the suppression of this subordinate government (which is here charged with "neglect, rapacity and oppression") and the redistribution of its former territories under separate prefects, with fixed salaries here stated and forbidden to trade; appointment of an Inspector-General of coffee cultivation to enforce the planting of coffee; creation of a forest department to superintend the supply of timber to Government; improvements in customs and excise (opium and markets) farms; p, 89: Prohibition of the letting of villages by native chiefs to Chinese and others, save in special cases prohibition of the employment by officials of free Javanese as household servants, &c., except with the knowledge of Government and at a wage of 3 rixdollars silver and 40 lbs, of rice monthly [it had been the custom for them to give "either no payment at all or very little"] ; special provisions for services to be rendered by natives in repairing roads, &c. ; prohibition of debt slavery; maintenance of the general principles of the existing revenue system of Java, with provisions against abuses; appointment of the higher native chiefs to be by Government, and fixing of their revenues; suppression of certain oppressive services ; unsuccessful attempt at cotton growing; exemption of coffee cultivators from public services ; freeing of the trade in indigo, cotton yarn and cotton, subject to certain duties ; concession of titular favours to native chiefs, with some other advantages ; advantages accruing to Government from the recognition of the native chiefs as Government servants, the establishment of a native mounted constabulary, and of a system of posthouses ; p. 95: Improvements in the judicial system of North Eastern Java, particularly the establishment of a Court of Justice at Sourabaya [=Surabaya] ; exportation of rice permitted, provided it be purchased from Government ; fixing of the price payable by Government for rice at 17 rixdollars silver per cojang [=koyan], "a price, not fixed too low, when it is considered, that, under the former system of monopoly and forestalling the market, the wretched Javanees received hardly one half of that amount," with freedom to dispose of rice at the public market ; freedom of trade in soft sugar, save in Batavia ; improvement in currency by the issue of a great quantity of copper coinage ; removal of the Government workshop and arsenal from Batavia to Surabaya, on account of the unhealthiness of the former site ; improved relations with the Susuhunan and Sultan. Translated from a Dutch state paper, extracted from the Register of Resolutions of Gov(r) Gen(l) Daendels, and printed by his orders for official and general information. It is entered in Van der Chijs, Proeve eener Ned. Indische Bibliographie (1659-70), p. 44, under No. 25 as [Salis (A. M. T. de)], korte aantooning van de notabelste verbeteringen en redressen, welke sedert den 1 Januarij 1808 in verschillende vakken van regering en administratie, in Hollandsch Indiën zijn ingevoerd. Batavia, 8(o). 184 bladz. (C. Niemandsverdriet, gouvernements drukker).

5, pp. 101-21: Extract of the Register of Resolutions of His Excellency the Marshal and Governor General-Samarang [=Sĕmarang] 1(st) Sept(r) 1808. Another (and rather better) translation of the same original as 2 supra, q.v. This and the following pieces to 10, inclusive, are in the same hand as 4 supra, to which they are appendices, being covered by the first title of 4 supra.

6, pp. 121-30: Samarang [=Sĕmarang], 27 September 1808. Instruction for the Resident at the Eastern-point of Java, and for the Prefects of Samarang, Tagal [=Tĕgal], Paccalongang [=Pĕkalongan], Japara and Rembang [=Rĕmbang]. Trandlated from a Dutch original printed in Van der Chijs, Nederlandsch-Indisch Plakaatboek, 1602- 1811, (1896), 158 Deel, pp. 280-92, under the above date.

7, pp. 131-7: Samarang [=Sĕmarang], 27 September 1808. Instruction for the respective Regents in the late Government of the North East Coast of Java. Another translation of the same original as 3 supra, q.v.

8, p. 138: Extract from the Register of resolutions of His Excellency the Marshal and Governor General. Buitenzorg, 4th April 1809. Raising the price payable by Government for coffee, to the advantage of the native chiefs. Translated from a Dutch original printed in Van der Chijs, Op. cit. p.652 (where however the final executory clause is omitted).

9, p. 138-40: Extract from the Register of resolutions of His Excellency the Marshal and Governor General. Buitenzorg 20(th) [really 10th] May 1809. Modifies the conditions of land tenure contained in art. 76 of the regulation of 1 September 1808 on the North-East Coast of Java, in the direction of substituting service on transport, &c., for the delivery of cotton or money in lieu thereof. Translated from a Dutch original printed in Van der Chijs, Op. cit., pp. 702-5, under date 10 May 1809, where (as usual) the final executory clause is not given.

10, pp. 141-9: Extract from the Register of the Resolutions of His Excellency the Marshal and Governor General Buitenzorg 17(th) May 1809. Forest department regulations, translated from a Dutch original which (with the omission of the beginning of the preamble and a part of the final executory clause) is printed in Van der Chijs, Op. cit., pp. 710-20, under the title Voorloopige regeling van de blandong- diensten.

11, pp. 151-233: Memorie opgesteld voor den Wel Edelen Gestrengen Heer Willem Hendrik van Ossenberch Raad Extra ordinair van Nederlands India, en g'eligeert gouverneur en directeur van Javas Noord Oost Cust en aan Zijn Wel Edele gestrenge overhandigt, door den Raed Extra ordiniar van Nederlands India, en afgaande Gouverneur en Directeur Nicolaas Hartingh op desselfs vertrek na Batavia. Subject to verbal differences, this is a copy of the same memoir as 63. 1 supra, q. v. For a translation see 79. 1 infra.

12, pp. 235-46: Samarang [=Sĕmarang], 1 May 1813. Letter in Dutch from J. Knops to D. Hopkins, Superintendent of Forests, Java, being a report on the forests, comprising statistical tables showing the amount of timber felled, lying and delivered, both as regards Java as a whole and its several districts, under the dates December 1811 and 1812, and also giving particulars of the replanting of teak for the year 1812 in various districts. Apparently a copy certified by the writer of the original.