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THE SPECIAL COMMISSIOX, ETC. 



ALI KIOXGWE, THE AVTHOK S SWAHILI 

 " HEAD-MAX " 



of Uganda was to receive the official 

 title of " kabaka," and to be officially 

 recognised by the British Government 

 as His Highness the Kabaka of Uganda, 

 and to receive, moreover, a salute of 

 guns on ceremonial occasions. The 

 Kabaka was to attain his majority at the 

 age of eighteen, and until that period 

 tlie Government was to be carried on 

 bv regents in his name, appointed by 

 the British Government. The civil list 

 of the king, and salaries of the regents 

 during the regency, and of the native 

 ministers after the king attained his 

 majority, certain pensions to princes and 

 princesses of the royal family of Uganda, and the salaries of the twenty 

 chiefs of districts, were stated at fixed sums, and it was agreed that the 

 British Administration of Uganda should pay this civil list and these 

 salaries annually out of the funds of the Protectorate. The king and 

 chiefs were not to exact any further payments from their native subjects. 

 All natives of Uganda were henceforth liable to pay a hut and a gun tax 

 of the value of three rupees (4s.) each annually. (Thus a native of Uganda 

 owning both a hut and a gun would have as maximum taxation to pay 

 to the Protectorate 8.9. a year.) 



The agreement also dealt with a settlement of the land question. A 

 little less than half the area of the Kingdom of Uganda was to be 

 divided as the private property of the king, princes and princesses, the 

 chiefs, and a large number (some 2,000) of native landowners. The 

 remainder, including the forests, was to be handed over to the control of 

 the British Government. A few other points of minor importance were 

 provided for. This agreement therefore secured to the king, chiefs, and 

 aristocracy* of the Protectorate the tenure of all the land they occupied^ 

 had placed under cultivation, or used as grazing ground. The waste and 

 uncultivated lands and the forests were handed over to the British 

 Government to be dealt with by them on the same lines as those on which 

 they would deal with the Crown lands of a Crown colony. Native taxation 

 henceforth was to be turned to the general support of the Protectorate, 

 and natives were protected from illegal exactions at the hands of their 

 chiefs ; at the same time the irregular revenues of the king and chiefs. 



These again being pledged to a proper treatment of their native tenants. 

 Any landless native of Uganda can acquire cultivable land from the Administration 

 at almost nominal rent. 



