CHAPTER VI. 



NOTES ON THE GOVERNMENT OP JAVA ARISTOCRATIC CON- 

 STITUTION OF DUTCH CHAMBERS PRODUCES AN ARBITRARY 

 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT — GOVERNOR-GENERAL AND COUN- 

 CIL — MAATSCHAPPY (COMPANY OR FACTORY) STRICT COM- 

 MERCIAL MONOPOLY — DUTCH POSSESSIONS IN THE EAST 



INDIES INTERNAL GOVERNMENT OF JAVA DIVISION 



INTO RESIDENCIES — SUBORDINATE NATIVE AND EUROPEAN 



OFFICERS PER CENTAGE ON PRODUCE NATIVE COURTS 



OF JUSTICE ADJUSTMENT OF LAND TAX— OTHER TAXES 



FORCED LABOUR RATES DUTIES ON IMPORTS — EURO- 

 PEANS IN JAVA — NO FOREIGNERS ALLOWED TO RESIDE — 

 EFFECTS OF THE GOVERNMENT SYSTEM ON EUROPEANS 

 — EFFECTS ON NATIVES — CHAIN OF CITADELS — PROBABLE 

 RESULTS OF A CHANGE OF SYSTEM — NOTE ON THE SUGAR 

 CULTIVATION. 



1 at one time hoped to have been able to acquire 

 a more complete and well defined notion of the na- 

 ture of the Dutch Government of Java than I now 

 find myself to possess. I had considerable difficulty 

 in acquiring information on the spot, partly from 

 my ignorance of the Dutch and native languages, 

 and partly from the apparent reluctance of most 

 people to talk publicly on the subject. The scat- 

 tered notes which I am now going to lay before the 

 reader are principally the result of many desultory 

 conversations with different people more or less per- 



