170 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Letter dated 18th October, 1748. — Gro veruor- General G-ustraaf 

 Willem, Baron yan Imhoff. 



Order to remove the garrison again on account of the insalu- 

 brity of the place and to send them to Perak. 



I am able too, from the same source, to fix the date of the re- 

 establishment of the post on the Perak river, which I was unable 

 to do in the paper published in the last number ( see " The Dutch 

 in Perak," Journal, No. 10, p. 245). Under the date, October 

 22nd, 1746, it is stated that the under-f actor, Mr. Ary Vererttgge 

 is sent to Perak on a special mission to find out if the King will 

 allow the East India Company to again erect a fort in his country 

 and if he will enter into a contract to deliver all tin to the Company. 



The mission was, no doubt, successful, for the records mention 

 the agreement entered into with the King of Perak dated the 25th 

 July, 1747, by which he undertakes to deliver all the tin produced 

 in his country to the East India Company exclusively at the rate of 

 26 ducatoons ( 1 ducatoon # = 5s. 3d. ) per bhara of 875 lbs., 

 besides two Spanish dollars for duty, and grants permission to the 

 Dutch to build a fort anywhere at the mouth of the river and to 

 require all vessels to call there for the purpose of being examined 

 by the garrison. 



This is, of course, the engagement mentioned in the Malay manu- 

 script as having been concluded in the reign of Sultan Mozaear 

 Shah, ( see Journal, No. 10, p. 258). 



The list of Dutch Opperliooften in Perak ( p. 268a) taken from 

 Valentyn may be added to as follows : — 



1661 — 1661 Adriaen Lttcassoon. 

 1661 — 1668 Johannes Brakel. 



1668 — ( ? ) AdRI AEN VAN LER AVaLLE. . 



W. E. M. 

 Malacca, 28th August, 1883. 



Old pillar-dollars, which are carefully preserved by some of the old inha- 

 bitants in Perak', are still called there ringgit jukatdn. (ducatoon). 



