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7 . Haji Mohammed says that he would not like to guarantee the payment of an 
advance, and would rather ask the Government to exempt cultivators from land 
revenue for a term. The Resident replies that the revenue of the State is contributed 
almost exclusively by the Chinese, and that it must be understood that Malays must 
pay their share, and that payment of land revenue will be insisted on. Imam PRANG 
Perkasa says that his experience is that Malays care nothing for land which costs 
them nothing. If they have to pay revenue they think the land worth cultivating. 
The Resident says that the experience of the last four years in Malacca has shewn 
the truth of this. 
8. Speaking of Jeram, where padi-cultivation suffers from drought, the Resident 
enquires whether it is not possible to make a fresh-water canal from Sungei Buluh to 
the coast, providing a water-gate so as to irrigate the fields. The general opinion is 
that this could be done. 
g. The Resident says that he will refer this matter to His Excellency the 
Governor. 
W. E. MAXWELL, 
British Resident , Selangor. 
REPORT ON LAND SUITABLE FOR PADI CULTIVATION IN THE 
DISTRICT OF KUALA LUMPUR. 
Land Office, Kuala Lumpur, 
4th March , i8g2. 
Sir, — I have the honour, in compliance with instructions contained in Col. Sec. 
No. to forward a report on land suitable for padi cultivation in the District of 
Kuala Lumpur. 
2. The area of padi land already under cultivation in the various mukims of the 
District is as follows : — 
Kuala Lumpur, 
Nil. 
Pataling, 
Nil. 
Setapak, 
700 acres. 
Batu, 
230 » 
Ulu Klang, 
20 „ 
Ampang, 
30 » 
Total, . 
..980 acres. 
3. A great part of the low land of the District is taken up with mining leases, 
many of which are un worked and might be resumed with advantage. 
4. Mukirn of Kuala Lumpur. — In this mukim there is no vacant land which can 
be considered suitable for padi-planting. 
5. Mukim of Pataling. — There are only two pieces of vacant land to my know- 
ledge in this mukim adapted to the purpose. One, a swamp about 30 acres in extent, 
lies on the right of the Pataling-Cheras Road between one and two miles from Pataling 
Station. This is, I am informed by the Penghulu, already being encroached on by 
miners. The other lies to the left of the same road and includes about 40 acres. 
Irrigation can be obtained by the construction of a dam across a small stream in the 
neighbourhood. I cannot, however, say how such a dam may interfere with mining 
sluices in the neighbourhood. The cost is estimated by the Penghulu at about $100. 
6. Mukim of Setapak. — This mukim has always been the great centre of padi cul- 
tivation in this District. 1 his may be ascribed to the fact that it has until recently been 
the policy of the Government to discourage mining in this mukim. Seven hundred (700) 
acres are, as above stated, already taken up, while a dam and tali ayer (water-course), 
now being constructed on the Gombak River, under the supervision of the Penghulu, 
will provide irrigation for about four hundred acres more. In addition to this there are 
about fifty acres of land at present vacant in Ulu Gombak, which can be watered from 
the Sungei Pusuh stream. A part of this, however, is included in a 1,000'acre block 
applied for by Mr. E. V. Carey, from Ceylon, for coffee-planting purposes. 
