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AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 



OF THE 



STRAITS 



AND 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



No. 5.] MAY, 1909. [Vol. VIII 



THE LAND LAWS AND LAND ADMINISTRA- 

 TION OF THE FEDERATED MALAY 

 STATES. 



By R. G. Watson, 



Commissioner of Lauds and Surveys, F. M. S. 



GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION. 



The Federated Malay States consists of four Indepen- 

 dent Native States — viz., Perak, Selangor and Negri Seni- 

 bilan on the West Coast, and Pahang on the East Coast of 

 the Malay Peninsula. Since 1896 the Administration of 

 these States has been settled in the following form: subject 

 to the directions of His Majesty's Principal Secretary of 

 State for the Colonies, the Governor of the Straits Settle- 

 ments is also High Commissioner of the Federated Malay 

 States. The 'principal Civil Officer resident in the States 

 is the Resident-General, in whom is invested the control of 

 affairs for the whole Federation. He is assisted by a staff 

 of Federal Officers, to whom is entrusted the supervision of 

 the principal departments of the four States: of these 

 officers it may be sufficient here to mention the Commis- 

 sioner of Lands and Surveys, the Senior Warden of Mines, 

 and the Director of xVgriculture, whose titles indicate the 

 departments with which they deal. 



Subject to the direction of the Resident-General, each 

 State of the Federation is separately administered on be- 

 half of the Native Ruler by a British Resident, assisted by 

 the usual staff of Government officers. 



