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AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 
OP THE 
STRAITS 
AND 
FEDERATED MALAY STATES, 
No. 5.] 
MAY, 1909. 
[Vol. VIII 
K 
THE LAND LAWS AND LAND ADMINISTRA- 
TION OF THE FEDERATED MALAY 
STATES. 
By R. 0., Watson, 
Co ut miss i o tie v of Lauds and Surveys, l 1 . M. S. 
GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION. 
The Federated Malay States consists of four Ind<g)eu- 
dent Native States— viz., Perak, Selangor and Negri Sem- 
bilan on the West Coast, and Pahang on the East Coast Qt 
the Malay Peninsula. Since 1896 the Administration of 
these States lias been settled in the following form : subject 
to the directions of His Majesty’s Principal Secretary o± 
State for the Colonies, the Governor of the Straits Settle- 
ments is also High Commissioner of the Federated Mala> 
States The Principal Civil Officer resident m the States 
is the Resident-General, in whom is invested the control of 
affairs for the whole Federation. He is assisted bv a staff 
of Federal Officers, to whom is entrusted ‘the supei vision of 
the principal departments of the four States: of these 
officers it mav lie sufficient here to mention the Cominis- 
si oner of Lands and Surveys, the Senior Warden of Mmes, 
and the Director of Agriculture, 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 bj 
the usual staff of Government officers. 
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