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9, ENFORCEMENTS OF ENACTMENTS. 
The Secretary reads the following letter : 
The Federal Secretary, F. M. S., 
Kuala Lumpur. nth July, 19 10, 
Sir,— I have the honor to submit that the staffs of those depart- 
ments, which are specially charged with matters closely affecting the 
Planting Industry, do not seem to have been increased in proportion 
with the growth of the latter. 
I would instance the registration of all Tamil Coolies, which 
though legally incumbent on every employer of Tamil Labor, is to 
all practical intents and purposes a dead letter, since the Department 
in charge, viz., the Indian Immigration Department, has apparently 
not got a sufficient number of Officers, to see that the law is carried 
into effect. 
Similarly the enforcement of the Hospital Rules in the case of 
large contractors does not seem to have been attempted, notwithstand- 
ing the notoriously insanitary manner, in wdiich these employers 
house their coolies. 
As a further instance I would mention the registration of rubber 
trees under the Rubber Dealers’ Enactment. At present these records 
are kept at the various Land Offices, although it must be obvious that 
these Officers have not the time, to check and scrutinize the returns 
received by them in the manner intended by the Enactment. 
Under the circumstances, the Members of this Association feel 
that the attention of the Government should be called to the present 
very unsatisfactory and undignified state of affairs and to submit that 
the staffs concerned be strengthened by an immediate and adequate 
increase in the number of officers. 
I have, etc., 
(Sgd.) H. C. E. Zacharias, 
Secretary, 
The Chairman remarks that steps were being taken already to 
establish coolie registration offices throughout the F.M.S. 
10. COMPULSORY GRADING OF AGRICULTURAL 
EXPORTS. 
The Secretary reads the following letter: 
No. 3379 1910. 14th July, 1910. 
Sir,— I am directed to inform you that it has been represented 
that a large amount of the copra exported from the Federated Malay 
States is of an inferior description, and that it is desirable that some 
restrictions should be imposed. 
