t@f> TeMMINCK’S GENERAL VIEW OP THE DUTCH 
vernment which succeeded to this right can then exact it, in such or 
such locality, where the land taxes were paid in sugar cane or in all 
other agricultural produce. 
The actual organization of the territorial impost has given birth 
to the possibility of putting this exaction in perfect harmony with 
the amount due by the contributors. Tile price of labour. being 
known, it has been easy to determine the number of workmen to be 
furnished fey the village to free it from the tax; or rather, to return 
to the example before given, it was equally easy to fix the extent of 
land which the village should plant with rattoons, before obtaining by 
it a similar result. But, from the moment that the rate of this la¬ 
bour goes beyond the value of the debt exigible, the tjatjak obtains 
an acquired right to the equivalent of this surplus of the labour. 
Thus, Government is able to give to the proprietors of sugar ma¬ 
nufactories the certainty that the quantity of canes, required to feed 
their establishment, will be regularly cultivated by the surrounding 
villages. To obtain this end, nothing was needed save the single 
manifestation of the desire of Government in this respect, followed 
by an estimate serving to establish the basis of the calculation, of 
which the result is, that the tjatjah finds himself free from his land 
tax from the time that he has furnished a quantity equivalent to the 
labour represented by the plantations of canes. 
Let us now pass in review the state of the new cultures so largely 
encouraged by Government and which have been ameliorated in a 
remarkable manner. But let us first cast a glance on the state in 
which these cultures were before and in 1830 and that which they 
produced in 1840 always in the hope of increasing prosperity which 
the results have not disappointed. 
By the recapitulation furnished in the remarks on the modern his¬ 
tory of Java, we see the company of the Indies pass successively from 
the condition of simple trading to dominion by means of exclusive 
commerce; led, in order to maintain this system of monopoly, to 
make war, to conquer provinces, and to become finally sovereign of a 
vast extent of country. 
If this Company after having conquered vast provinces had known 
to place itself at the height of the duties which sovereignty imposes 
it would have been necessary to have changed its system of adminis¬ 
tration and to cease to oppress its subordinates in order to em icli it¬ 
self at their expence. It is but too true that it cared very little for the 
people subject to its authority, and it even appears that it never 
knew how to reap all the benefit from its commerce that a wise 
