XIX. 
Order in Council No. 6 of 1890. 
DISCOURAGEMENT OF LADANG CULTIVATION. 
Passed by His Highness the SULTAN of PERAK in Council on the 16th day of 
January, 1890. 
F. A. SWETTENHAM, 
British Resident. 
Preamble. 
What jungle may be 
felled for ladang. 
With the object of discouraging the cultivation of ladang and encouraging 
permanent agriculture, the following Order will be enforced throughout the State of 
Perak : — ■ 
2. On and after the 1st January, 1890, no jungle, except secondary growth of 
not more than five or six years’ standing, shall be felled for ladang cultivation, and, to 
ascertain what jungle may be cleared for this purpose, the following test shall be 
applied: jungle that can be felled with a parang or golok may be cleared, but jungle 
that cannot be felled without the use of an axe or biliong may not be cut for ladang 
cultivation. 
Pee for permit. 
Penalty. 
Penghulu liable. 
Jungle may be felled for 
permanent agriculture. 
3. The fee for a permit to fell jungle for ladang cultivation shall be fifty cents 
for every acre or part of an acre. 
4. Any person committing a breach of this Order or using land for ladang 
cultivation which was granted for the purpose of permanent agriculture shall be liable, 
on conviction before a Magistrate, to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars for every acre 
or part of an acre so felled or cultivated, and any Penghulu who knowingly allows a 
breach of these regulations to be committed in his mukim shall be liable to the penalty 
herein provided. 
5. Nothing in this Order is to be interpreted as prohibiting persons from felling 
jungle for the establishment of permanent cultivation. 
XX. 
Order in Council No. 14 of 1890. 
BENDANG CULTIVATION. 
Passed by His Highness the Sultan of Perak in Council on the 1st day of 
October, 1890. 
F. A. SWETTENHAM, 
British Resident. 
Whereas it is necessary to encourage the cultivation of Bendang Land in the 
State, it is hereby ordered as follows : — 
1. From and after the ist, December, 1890, any registered owner of bendang 
land, or person holding under him, whose growing crops are damaged by fire or by 
vermin, notwithstanding the exercise of due and customary care and precaution on his 
part, shall be entitled to sue and recover damages from the owner of any adjoining or 
neighbouring bendang land, or person holding under him, who shall have neglected to 
clear and burn off his land, in the customary manner, should there be, in the opinion 
of the adjudicating Magistrate, reasonable grounds for the presumption that the 
damage occasioned by such fire or vermin is due, in whole or in part, to the omission 
so to clear and burn off such adjoining or neighbouring bendang land. 
2. Cases brought under this Order shall be heard and determined by a Magistrate 
of the first or second class, assisted by at least one Native Magistrate or Peno-hulu. 
3. The word vermin shall mean and include pigs, rats mice, and insects. 
4. In districts or sub-divisions of districts, when requested to do so in writing 
by a majority of two-thirds of the Penghu lus, or of the padi planters, it shall be lawful 
for the District Magistrate to frame rules prescribing the dates on which the various 
operations of planting and harvesting padi on bendang lands shall take place, and 
imposing penalties for breaches of such rules. 
5. Such rules, after being approved and confirmed by the British Resident, and 
after publication in the Government Gazette , and after being posted up, in the Malay 
language, for the space of a fortnight, on the mosque, or other conspicuous building 
or place in the villages affected thereby, shall have the force of law for twelve months. 
