‘Contract for the Construction of a Railway and Works in the British Central Africa Protectorate, dated 1897’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 55 (1925), pp. 439–67.

An agreement was made in 1897 between Sir Montagu Frederick Ommanney, Ernest Edward Blake, and Maurice Alexander Cameron in the City of Westminster the Crown Agents for the Colonies. The agreement states that the whole of the costs of surveying, staking and laying out the railways, the lands to be taken and of the subsidy lands, the costs of the construction and equipment of the Railway and of the maintenance of the Railway and of all labour and materials for the same shall be borne and paid by a specific Company. The agreement also states that the Company shall always be and remain British in character and shall have its principal office in Great Britain or in some town in the Protectorate and the Company’s principal representative in the Protectorate and all its Directors shall always be natural born British subjects or persons.