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' An alternative estimate to that suggested in my memorandum 

 "would, therefore, be as follows : — 



Ranger t'400 



Deputy Ranger . . . . 300 or £250 for first year. 

 Assistant Rangers : — 



Two at £'250 . . . 500 

 Horse Allowance : — 



Four at £36 . . . 144 



Native Scouts .... 200 



Expenses 500 



' His Majesty's Commissioner, 

 Nairobi.' 



' I have, &c, 



' F. J. Jackson. 



' Memorandum. 



'His Majesty's Commissioner, 



' 1. I am strongly of the opinion that the steady increase in the 

 revenue derived from game licences and fines for breaches of 

 ■the Game Eegulations since 1903 * now justifies an appeal to the 

 Secretary of State for a larger expenditure on the protection of 

 the game. At present Mr. Percival, the Game Banger, is single- 

 handed. He receives a salary of £'250 a year, and his average 

 annual expenses have been about £100. Game is found through- 

 out three-fifths of the whole Protectorate in great variety and 

 more or less plenty, and in about one-fifth in great quantities. 

 The Uganda Eailway runs through country in which game is 

 found for nearly 400 miles of its total length of 581 miles ; and it 

 bounds the Southern Eeserve for the whole length of its north- 

 eastern border for a distance of 194 miles. Yet, in spite of such 

 rapid means of locomotion, it is obviously impossible for one man, 

 with only half a dozen native scouts to assist him, to have any- 

 thing but the very vaguest idea of what is being done in the 

 matter of poaching in the Eeserve, or of breaches of the Eegula- 

 tions in other respects elsewhere, even within a few miles of the 

 line ; and further afield it is impossible that he can know any- 

 thing. 



' Few, however, will deny that poaching, shooting without 

 licences, and other breaches of the Eegulations, are of daily 

 •occurrence, and are likely to continue until the Game Eanger is 

 asssisted by an adequate staff. Prosecutions have, so far, been 

 very few, and the majority have been at the instigation of 

 Collectors and Assistant Collectors of districts, and not on infor- 

 mation laid by the Eanger or his scouts. Through lack of funds 

 at his disposal Mr. Percival is at present tied down at Nairobi for 

 about eight months in the year. Such a condition of affairs is 

 most unsatisfactory, and compares very unfavourably with the 



* 1903, £8,650 ; 1904, £5,990 ; 1905, £7,000 ; 1900, £9,000, estimated. 



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