They are obliged to pay a mulct for leave to enter ands largr one for pennission to quit. besides a poll tax. none of which imposts are lvied on other foreigners. * * 5 There are no women in Java who come directly from China. but as the Chinese often marry the daughters of their countrymen by Javan women. there results a numerousmixed racewbichis often scarcelydistingnishablefromtlne native Chinese. Many return to China annually in the junks. but by n mans in the same numhere as they arrive. They are governed in matters of inheritance and minor affairs by their own laws. adininistered by their own officials appointed by the Dutch governor. ieginng on their anva as coolies and laborers. they soon accumulate enough to work independently. and ninany of them amass large fortunes. They have obtained nearly a monopoly of the native reduce and an uncontrolled command of their Marnket for forsngn commodities. heir industry embraces the whole system of conmmrce. from tie greatest wholesale speculation to the mostminutebranches of the retail trade. In theirhands are all the manufactories. distilleries. potteries &c.. and they have large coffee and sugar plantations.