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might settle at Telok Anson, The men, after their land was opened and their houses 
erected, might seek employment anywhere in the State or in the neighbouring Colony, 
having earned their money, they would have returned to their families on their hold- 
ings at Telok Anson, put their land in order, and returned to work in the same way as 
the Indian cooly from Madras now does. 
18. The difference would be that the Perak Indian would not return to his 
native land, and the labour and money earned would remain in the country, and it was 
hoped th at this small colony might have developed into a larger scheme of settling 
a permanent population in the State. 
19. That this has been partially done may be seen at Telok Anson by any one 
who will visit the small Kling colony now established there by these few settlers. 
There is a perfect Kling community settled on that portion of the promontory on the 
western side of Telok Anson where the first settlers came, and had the original plan 
been carried out, the whole of the promontory w r ou!d have been occupied by Kling 
families, and the whole promontory, say, 350 acres, could have been irrigated for padi 
planting with little cost or trouble. Even in its present state a visit to the Kling 
community at Telok Anson as now established would, I think, prove interesting. 
No. 3. — Pad i Planters and Settlers at Telok Anson and Setiawan. 
20. This is entered in the statement in one sum — $3,301.31 — but it should more 
properly be divided in two, say, $2,000.46 advanced for Telok Anson, and $1,300.85, 
Setiawan. 
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Both these settlements have repaid their advance, thus : — 
Telok Anson, ... ... ... ... $2,000.46 
Less refunded, ... ... ... ... 1,026.50 
• $964.16 
21. For this sum we have about 250 acres paying land rent for the last four years, 
while taking the value of the land at the very low rate of $30 per acre, we have a 
total of $7,500. 
22. The land revenue collected from this land, from all sources, from the com- 
mencement of the venture to 1891, equals about $1,640. 
23. In 1888 the settlers on these lands paid Government no less than $830 for 
passes to cut gutta ($10 per pass per man), mortgaging their land for this purpose, 
but not $50 in gutta was collected, none being met with. This blow seriously affect- 
ed the progress of the settlement, which it has taken it a considerable time to recover, 
and ruined not a few of the settlers. 
Sungei Setiawan, ... 0 ... ... ... $1,300.85 
Less refunded, ... ... ... ... 072.50 
$ 3 2 8-35 
24. I have not the figures as to Sungei Setiawan before me, and there is nothing 
to be gained in going minutely into the present standing of this settlement. 
25. The settlers have lately paid off no less than $693.80 of advances by con- 
structing a cart-road at Setiawan for the Public Works Department. 
26. There are now some 3,300 acres entered on the rent-roll, and I may add 
that the demarcation of new land, which is now being carried out, will add another 
1,000 or 1,500 more. 
27. The population at Setiawan, which originally could be reckoned as ff nil/ ? 
was by the last Census in 1891 no less than 1,137, but this number has been added to 
by recent arrivals during the past year. 
No. 4. — Settlers at Sungei Nibong and Batak Rabit, ... $652.70 
Refunded, ... ... ... ... ... 167.50 
$485.20 
28. The sum of about $400 was the cost of an attempt to open a padi planting 
at Sungei Nibong at the mouth of the Perak River in 1883; the balance advances 
given to place a few settlers at Batak Rabit on the road from Telok Anson to Utan 
Melintan in Bernam. These small latter advances have been repaid. 
