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(to reside at Entebbe), of the Coast Province (at Mombasa), at Zanzibar 

 (to supervise the administration of the Sultan's Government), and at 

 Berbera (to conduct the affairs of British Somaliland). But the budgets 

 of the Imperial expenditure in all these Protectorates might be combined 

 in one by the Treasury of the High Commissioner on the Nandi Plateau. 

 Here also might sit a Supreme Court for East Africa. From this post 

 also might be managed the Uganda Railway and the direction of all the 

 Imperial forces in the East African territories. 



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This plan would certainly ensure the regular and good government and 

 orderly finances of the British Protectorates in East Africa. It would 

 also be. attended to here that the Uganda Railway was maintained and 

 conducted not only with a view to the eventual return to the British 

 taxpayer of the money expended on its construction, but also in strict 

 relation to the needs and requirements of East Africa. It is obvious that 

 a direction carried on from East Africa would be better acquainted with 

 the needs of the Protectorates and the best methods to be adopted on 

 the railway than a managing committee meeting in London. The High 



