APPENDIX A.-FEDERATED MALAY STATES-Continued.

(including BULLION and SPECIE) EXPORTED.-Continued.

Trade by the Straits Settlements Registrar of Imports and Exports.]

exchange see Table No. 2, p. 5.

Imports and Exports. They slightly differ, in some instances, from those specially returned by the Protectorate Table No. 11, p. 418.

APPENDIX A.-FEDERATED MALAY STATES-Continued.

(9.) TOTAL VALUE of IMPORTS (including BULLION and SPECIE) from

(10.) TOTAL VALUE of EXPORTS (including BULLION and SPECIE) to

APPENDIX A.-FEDERATED MALAY STATES-Continued.

(11.) QUANTITY and VALUE of TIN and TIN ORE EXPORTED from each of the FEDERATED MALAY STATES in each of the Years 1892 to 1906.

Quantities. Value. Quantities. Value. Quantities. Value. Quantities. Value.

NOTE.-The figures given in the above statement have been specially returned by the local Protectorate Authorities.

(a) The figures show the quantity of Tin in the Tin Ore exported (calculated at 65% of the gross weight of ore to November, 1898; 68% to October 31st, 1904, and thereafter 70%), this being the weight on which export duty is paid. For rates of export duty on tin and tin ore, see Table No. 16, p. 421.

APPENDIX A.-FEDERATED MALAY STATES--Continued.

(12.) POSTAL STATISTICS for the FEDERATED MALAY STATES for each of the Years 1900 to 1906.

(13.) LENGTH of RAILWAYS open for TRAFFIC in each of the FEDERATED MALAY STATES at the end of each of the Years 1892 to 1906, together with the RECEIPTS and WORKING EXPENSES during each of those Years,

(a) The Government Railways in Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan (opened in April, 1903), and Province Wellesley were federated in 1903.

In 1905 the Federated Malay States purchased the Malacca Railway (21 miles in length) at cost price.

(b) The Sungei Ujong private railway was opened in July, 1891.

(c) The receipts include sums received from the sale of sleepers.