THE SPECIAL COMMISSION, ETC. 



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he receives, and if native chiefs are unable to so govern their people as: 

 to ensure peace and quiet in their countries and protection to foreigners^ 

 thereby obliging the Administration of the Protectorate to intervene, they 

 must pay hut and gnu taxes as the result of not being able to manage 

 their own affairs. As circumstances render it advisable, no doubt, little by 

 little, no district of the Uganda Protectorate will be left without European 

 supervision, and consequently, theoretically', all natives will pay for the 

 upkeep of the Protectorate. Should this be the case, the entire theo- 

 retical native taxation of the whole Protectorate should, in money, suffice 

 to meet the entire cost of administration. But it will be a long time 

 before an equilibrium in the Uganda finances is attained in this way only. 



194. THE author's bungalow ("' COMMISSIONEIl's HOUSE ") AT ENTEIiBK, BUILT BY MR. SPIRE 



Even supposing the entire male population of the Protectorate was, ready 

 to pay taxes, they have not at present the money to pay in. This can 

 only come to them by the opening up of the Protectorate to commerce. 



