THE SPECIAL C0M:\ITSSI0X, ETC. 



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he receives, ami if native chiefs are unable to so govern tlieir people as 

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

 thereby obliging the Administration of the Protectorate to intervene, thev 

 must pay hut and gun 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 equilibriu?n in the Uganda finances is attained in this wav only. 



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194. THE AlTHiili's ];INi;AI.i)\V ^" (( >M.M 1.->1( )N KK"s HOLSK") AT KNTKIiHK, lilll.T liY MP. 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. 



