ABSTRACT

Necessity of central position for Government—Subordinate administration at coast—Qualifications for the post—Consul—Judge—Uganda administrator—Police force—How recruited—Number required—Cost—Administrative staff—Cost—Revenue obtainable—Total cost of East Africa —Company's estimate—Congo State expenditure—Cost in past—Taxation in Africa—Nyasaland—Individual land tenure—Incidence of taxation—Crown monopolies—Witu precedent -Method of administration in Uganda—Native subordinates—Internal improvements— Reclamation of swamps—Eucalyptus—Roads—Exclusion of arms, &c. —Methods of administration at coast—The central administration— Revenues of East Africa on solid basis—Hinterlands in West Africa undeveloped—Heliograph—Livingstonia and Equatoria.