140 tkmmisckV general view oe the Dtfrt'H 
himself in communication with the Resident, and to concert with him 
the most appropriate means of providing a remedy. 
A Chamber of Accounts sitting at Batavia is charged with all the 
. details of control. The accounting parties have the power of appeal¬ 
ing from its decisions to a commission named for this purpose by 
the Governor General. 
The colonial treasury provides in a generous manner for the ne¬ 
cessities of public worship. The affairs of the reformed Church and 
the Lutherans are confided to Consistories, those of the Catholics aie 
regulated by a Vicar apostolic. 
These denominations of religion are represented in Java and in all 
the other dominions of the state by ecclesiastics, whose numbei is in 
proportion to that of the laics of each religious community. Batavia, 
Samarang and Surabaya have reformed and catholic churches. •Mis¬ 
sionaries are sent where their presence is deemed necessary, as to 
j^orneo, Sumatra, Ternate, Banda, Timor, Celebes, in the same 
way as to the Moluccas where a great portion of the natives have 
since the I7tli. century embraced Christianity. All the pastors of 
different religions are remunerated in a manner completely equal, and 
truly liberal. Religious toleration appears to be a gift of heaven 
fallen to the lot of this terrestial paradise. The central commission 
©f benevolence, the widows funds, agriculture, the bible society, and 
that of missionskirc so many institutions of public utility with which 
these beautiful regions have been endowed. 
In the residency of Madion there is, at Tegalsari, a college for Ja¬ 
vanese priests. The pilgrimage to Mecca, which very few amongst 
them can undertake, gives them the right of assuming the generally 
’coveted and often usurped title of Hadji. The Mahometan priests 
are maintained by the communes through means of the tithe fpitrahj 
c f the agricultural produce. When the great mosques require re¬ 
pairs exceeding the means of the indigenous population, the govern¬ 
ment provides for them by gifts of-materials. 
It occupies itself solicitously with primary instruction, and schools 
established on the footing of our provincial institutions m Europe.. 
The primary government school at Wcltevreden leaves nothing to be 
desired. The same may be said of those of Samarang, Surabaya, 
Grisse, Macassar, Amboyna, and Banda; Malay schools exist m the 
Moluccas, at Timor &c. The superior direction of instruction is con¬ 
fided to a central commission established at Batavia. The buildings 
and the books are furnished by government. The tutors are paid by 
