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Malay States (Siamese) - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Patani and Sai are in telegraphic communication with Bangkok and Singapore, and regular weekly mails are despatched to those places. |
 | | The revenue amounts to about 600,000 ticals, or 45,000 a year, one-third being payable to the rulers as private income for themselves and their relatives, one-third expended on the administration, and one-third reserved for special purposes, but it is usually found necessary to devote the lastmentioned third to the expenses of administration. |
 | | Throughout the 17th century Patani was resorted to by Portuguese, Dutch and English merchants, who had factories ashore and used the place as an emporium for trade with Siam. |
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