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tejhmixck’s general view of the butch 
cassar, and Ternate, there are Cham hers of Orphans which have 
agents in the other residencies comprised under their jurisdiction. 
T he college charge themselves with the administration of all estates 
from which they have not been expressly excluded by will, but they 
do not occupy themselves with insolvent estates, for which there is a 
special functionary under the name of Sequestrator. It remains to 
speak of some other powers established under the authority of the 
Governor General. We shall limit these details to a very succint 
recapitulation. 
The finances with all their ramifications are confided in each pro¬ 
vince to the Resident, who places a certain number of European 
controllers in order to verify the accounts of the Javanese collec¬ 
tors. The secretary of the province discharges the functions of 
treasurer. The general direction is exercised under the authority of 
the Governor General by a Director General of finances officially 
^charged with the administration of the public treasury, and by three 
directors of whom one is for the Ways, Means arid Domains, another 
for the Material service, and the third for Cultures. * These func¬ 
tionaries form, under the presidency of the director general, a council 
* As the exact nature of the functions with which thcDirectors are cloth¬ 
ed does not appear from the text, wc shall give an explanation of them taken 
from the Almanac an JSaamregister voor Ncdevlands Indie for this year. 
The general direction over the domains, goods, monies, receipts and ex¬ 
penditure of Netherlands India is (subject to the surveillance of the Head of 
the Government) entrusted to the Director General of Finances (Directeur 
Generaal der Financien.) 
This chief functionary (Hoofd-Ambtenaar) with the Director of Means 
and Domains (de Directeur der Middelen en Domeinen), the Director of 
Produce and Civil Warehouses (de Directeur der Prodncten en Civielc 
Magazijnen), and the Director of the Cultures (da Directeur van Cultures) 
form jointly the Couneii of the General direction of Finances <£c. (Raadt 
den Generate Directie van Financien). 
Each of them is entrusted with particular duties j amongst the principal 
functions of the Director General are 
a. The General superintcndancc of goods, monies, receipts and ex- 
pences. 
b. The management of the Government Treasury in genera!. 
c. The keeping of the general books. 
d. The preparation of the budget of receipts and cxpences, and the an¬ 
nua! Government account. 
e. The coin. 
DIRECTION OF THE MEANS AND DOMAINS. 
To this direction belongs principally. 
a. The management of the import and export duties in general. 
b. Commerce and Navigation. 
e. The Farms, 
d. The Imposts, 
