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may be at a single station.) Finally there are the assistant collectors, 

 some of whom are placed alone in charge of secondary stations in a 

 district; others reside at the same station with a collector or a sub- 

 commissioner, and assist the officer of superior rank. Besides these 

 officials employed in the administration of })olitical affairs and of justice 

 and the collection of revenue, there are others employed exclusively 

 in the Treasury or Accounts Department, and others in the Secretariat. 

 There is a Survey Office for the general survey of the Protectorate lands, 

 a Scientific Department which presides over agriculture, the collection of 

 meteorological records, the supervision of the regulations for protecting 

 game, etc. In addition to the collectors who act as magistrates, there 

 is a special Judicial Department, at the head of which is placed a legal 

 vice-consul who is Judge and Chief Justice for the whole of the Uganda 

 Protectorate. There is a Public Works Department and a Transport 

 Department, which, even after the completion of the railway and the 

 steamers, will attend to the upkeep of main roads and transport of goods 

 and passengers in the countries west and north of the Victoria ]S'yanza. 



As regards the armed forces, there are the Military and ^larine Depart- 

 ments, The Marine Department, at present under the able direction of 

 Mr. C. W. Fowler, late K.N., C.M.Gr., has under its control the recently 

 constructed steamer William Mackinnon, two steam-launches, and a large 

 sailing vessel. The Williftm Mackinnon is armed with a powerful gun^ 

 and could be used if necessary for such elementary naval warfare as might 

 occur on the Victoria Xyanza. As the transport facilities on the lake 

 increase by the establishment of a mercantile marine, so no doubt the 

 official Marine Department of the Protectorate will confine itself mainly 

 to the policing and patrolling of the waterways. The little army in 

 Uganda is placed under the direction of an Inspector-General (who' 

 controls all the armed forces of the Foreign Office Protectorates^, of a 

 Commandant — at })resent Colonel A. H. Coles, D.S.O. — and a staff of 

 something like thirty English officers, including those of the Indian 

 contingent. The force under this department consists of the 4th Battalion 

 King's African Kitles (Negro soldiers — Sudanese, Eaganda, Somalis, etc.), 

 the 5th K.A.K. (Indian contingent) — about 400 Panjabis and Sikhs from 

 the Indian Army; and the constabulary or police, some 1,060 men 

 (Negroes) under British })olice officers, who are non-commissioned officers 

 from the British Army. 



The present administrative capital of the Uganda Protectorate is at 

 Entebbe, on the peninsula of that name which juts out into the Victoria 

 Nyanza, twenty miles ^outh of the native ca})ital of ^Nlengo, 



Up to the present time the administrations of the East Africa 

 and Uganda Protectorates have remained separate, each answerable direct 



