ABSTRACT
Muri Province dates from the inception of the Upper Benue Province in 1900, and Yola Province was constituted on 1 August 1901. In Numan most of the independent pagan districts adopted a loose federation in 1936, and in 1955, after other forms of conciliar administration, the Numan Federation Native Authority was expanded and reconstituted. Before the advent of the British the existing forms of taxation were modelled on the Koran, while pagan communities paid their tribute in slaves, given or captured. The Sudan United Mission first appeared in Muri Province when a station was opened at Wase in 1904 with the object of 'evangelizing the pagan peoples of the Sudan, beginning with Adamawa and the Upper Benue'. The Native Treasury system was introduced in 1911 by the establishment of the Yola Emirate Treasury. There are Native Administration prisons at Mubi, Yola, Jimeta, Numan, Jalingo, Jada, and Gembu, all staffed by their respective Native Administration warder services.
