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question of supporting the finances of the Protectorate by their own 

 contributions towards its general revenue. 



Mr. Jackson (now Deputy Commissioner for East Africa) became 

 Deputy Commissioner in Uganda, and did much to settle the affairs of 

 that kingdom. Mr. (leorge Wilson rendered the like services in Unyoro. 



Arrangements were then made to divide the Protectorate definitely 

 into provinces (six), and these again into districts. It was laid down as 

 a general rule that a province should ordinarily be under the direction of 

 a sub-commissioner, while the collectors and assistant collectors should be 

 placed in special charge of districts or places. Kecognised native chiefs 

 are sujjposed to deal out justice (reserving matters of life and death) to 

 their own subjects. The sub-commissioner, collectors, and assistant collectors 

 hold generally magistrates' warrants and administer justice to Euro])eans 

 and all })ersons not native to the Protectorate, in addition to their work 

 of collecting the revenues and generally presiding o\er the maintenance 

 of law and order in their respective districts. 



With the aid of Colonel A. H. Coles, D.S.O., and Licutfiiant-Colonel 

 J. Evatt. D.S.O., the reorganisation of tlie armed forces liad proceeded 

 apace. In this connection the ])r()l)h'ni was how to ])rovi(ie at a fairly 

 cheap rate a sufficiently large body of men to keej) order in the settled 

 and administered districts of the Protectorate. After the Sudanese mutiny 

 the P'oreign Oflfice had raised for a time the ])ay of the Sudanese troops to 

 a maximum of twenty rujjees a month. Tlii> was subsequently reduced 

 to eighteen rupees, as that was the maximum given to the trained Indian 

 troops who volunteered from the Indian Army for service in Uganda. But 

 it seemed to the present writer that even eighteen rupees a month was 

 too much to ])ay Negro soldiers whose training, discipline, marksmanship, 

 and valour were not at the same high level as those of our Indian soldiers. 

 He })roposed, therefore, that the maximum pay of Negro soldiers in the 

 Uganda Rifles should gradually be reduced to sixteen rupees a month. 

 Even at this rate, however, the upkeep of a force sufficiently numerous 

 to meet all the requirements of the Protectorate would be too expensive. 

 It therefore occurred to tlie Special Commissioner that the ordinary 

 maintenance of order might be very well carried on by a constabulary, 

 and that the trained troops, consisting of the Indian soldiers, the Sudanese, 

 Baganda, Somalis, and other negro soldiers of worth, miglit be reserved 

 for actual warfare, for expeditions against powerful tribes, or the suppression 

 of serious risings. Consequently, the number of soldiers serving in the 

 Uganda Rifles was diminished, and a constabulary, working under British 

 Y)olice officers (non-commissioned officers from the British Army), was 

 raised to a force of about 1,500 men. Including the Indian troops, 

 therefore, the Uganda Protectorate has on paper, and probably in actuality 



