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SUNGAI TJJONG. 
The other officers of the Court call for little notice. They 
are juak or attendants whose humble status is hidden under liigh- 
sounding designations such as Sultan Bendahara, Diwangsa, Maha- 
raja, Maharaja Singa, Penglima A wan, Imam Perang Kanan, and 
so on. Some of these titles have elaborate histories attached to 
them ; and all are pesaka or heirlooms in certain families. 
The matter of the dispossessed family of Beranang and Semun- 
yeh deserves attention, if only from the amount of official corres- 
pondence it has caused. The ancient boundaries of the State of 
S'ungai Ujong differed greatly from the modern. The frontier ran 
from Jugra to Mt. Tunggul Si-jaga, thence to Merbok Krawang, 
thence by Ilekok and Subang Hilang, thence to Mt. Perhentian 
Berhimpun in Jelebu. It included the Bukut mukiras — and most 
of the Langat districts of Selangor. But the Bugis ruler of 
Selangor carved out a. kingdom for themselves without reference to 
the rights of the To’ Engku of Klang or the Penghulu Mantri of 
Sungai Ujong. The coast fell into their possession; they held 
Jugra Lukut and even at one time Cape Rachado. They did not 
however penetrate to inland territory much of which remained un- 
occupied by Bugis and Malay. 
The first attempt to colonize Semunveh and Beranang was 
made in the days of the Dato’ Ivlana Saiyid Aman who handed the 
district over to Baja Husain, a waris of Sungai Ujong. This 
chief levied a toll on all settlers in his mukims; but a territory 
cannot be developed in this primitive way, and the country re- 
mained a waste till the establishment of a settled government under 
the British protectorate. 
When the frontier between Selangor and Negri Sembilan came 
to be defined, the mukims of Beranang and Semunyeh were in- 
cluded in Selangor and some portions of the coast district were 
ceded to Negri Sembilan. Baja Husain was offered a choice be- 
tween the position of a Selangor Penghulu and the sinecure office 
of Dato’ Laksamana of Sungai Ujong. He elected to serve under 
Selangor. Unfortunately he was extremely incompetent. After a 
long and patient trial his services were dispensed with, and his 
post was given to one of his relatives. That relative also was a 
failure. The position of Penghulu of Semunveh passed out of the 
hands of Raja Husain’s family; and Raja Husain himself died 
shortly afterwards, leaving a large family to nurse a grievance. 
But it is an interesting point in local custom that Raja 
Husain’s children have no valid grievance over this lost inheritance. 
Raja Husain was a waris of Sungai Ujong through his mother, 
Che’ Angsa; his children (under the law of uterine succession) 
are not waris at all. The adat perpateh of their native country 
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