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launch out further, and as already pointed out, in 1887 the estate was closed, the 
pepper cuttings grown on the estate selling well. 
7. I think then, that this pepper speculation can hardly be looked on as a 
scheme for the introduction of settlers, and if this is allowed, I would submit that 
this amount be deducted from the amount of $7,189.25, and the sum to be actually 
accounted for by me may stand at $4,248. 
No. 2. — Kling Immigrant Padi Planters. 
8. It was originally intended to introduce 100 padi plant- 
ing families from India to Telok Anson. The original cost of 
the introduction of Indian immigrants was ... ... $4,831.35 
and they have refunded, say ... ... ... ... $1,494.40 
Balance due to be refunded secured and recoverable, ... 865.80 
2,360.20 
$2,471.15 
9. This sum is, therefore, what may be reckoned the cost of the introduction 
of the present Indian immigrants. 
10. But from this sum of $2,471.15, there should be a deduction of $1,200 for 
expenses incurred, clearing land, building houses and preliminary expenses according 
to agreement for introducing 25 more Indian settlers who were never sent. This 
sum of $1,200 cannot fairly be brought into account against the cost of the present 
immigrants, for the expenses were incurred for settlers who never arrived, owing to 
the abandonment of the scheme at head-quarters. With this deduction of $1,200 
the actual cost will stand at $1,271.15. 
1 1. For this sum, 24 settlers were introduced, and placed on the land, occupying 
39 acres, the land rent on this at 60 cents per acre would amount to $24, or a little 
under 20 % on the outlay. 
12. In addition to the amount refunded, say, $1,494.40, about $120 has been re- 
ceived for agreements for leases, permits, boundary stones, survey fees, &c., and this 
might go to the credit of the cost of introducing these immigrants. 
13. It is a matter of very sincere regret to me that this experiment of introducing 
Indian settlers was not given a full and fair trial. The original intention was to in- 
troduce 100 families, a less number would not have sufficed to carry out a proper 
clearing of the jungle and a settlement on the land. 
14. Instead of the 100 families agreed to, only 24 were' sent, and I was instructed 
to prepare land for 25 more families, and these were again to be followed by two further 
batches of 25 families each. But the scheme was barely set on foot when it was 
abandoned at head-quarters, and I was left to face the difficulty as 1 best could. It was 
useless to press the conditions of the agreement as against the immigrants, when the 
Government failed in carrying out their portion of the contract, and the immigrants 
were allowed to go their own way, the only thing left to me to do was to recover such 
of the advances as I could, and in time the small balance outstanding will, in one way 
or another, be recovered. 
15. Even under the present disadvantages, there are many hopeful signs which 
make it more regrettable that the scheme was not carried out in its entirety. From the 
time the scheme was abandoned three or four years ago no assistance of any kind has 
keen given to the present Indian settlers , they have been under no supervision, and 
they have been repeatedly called upon to pay up instalments of their advances, yet no 
less than 9 of the original settlers have paid up the whole of their advances to Govern- 
ment, their land is under cultivation, under agreements for leases, representing 17 
acres, which may be valued at $120 an acre or, say, $2,000. Some of the settlers "have 
sold their land, but 1 may say nearly always to Klings who now hold the land. 
16. Of the remaining fifteen, two have died, one of these has transferred his land 
to another Kling, and it is under complete cultivation; two only of the settlers have 
absconded. The remaining 11 settlers are all still on the original land, which is more 
or less under cultivation, and may be estimated at 17 acres valued at $50 per acre, say, 
$850, and these 1 1 remaining settlers are slowly and steadily paying off their advances*. 
17. If the scheme had been properly carried out and not reduced to a minimum 
as it has, the indirect benefit to Government would have been great. The original 
object in introducing Indian immigrants to Lower Perak was that families of Indians 
