1st Edition

The Government and Administration of Africa, 1880-1939

Edited By Casper Anderson, Andrew Cohen Copyright 2013
    414 Pages
    by Routledge

    414 Pages
    by Routledge

    This collection makes available rare sources on the aims, functions and effects of British administration in Africa. Topics examined include: land and urban administration, law and jurisprudence, taxation and administration of natural resources.

    Report on the Administration of the Niger Coast Protectorate, August 1891 to August 1894, Africa. No. 1 [C. 7596] (1895), inclosures 2, 3, 6–7.; Southern Rhodesia Custom Management Ordinance, No. 6, 1906, in Arthur Speight (ed.), Statute Law of Southern Rhodesia from the Charter to 31st December 1910 (Salisbury: Government Printer, 1911), pp. 838–50.; British South Africa Company, Administration Revenue and Expenditure in Southern and Northern Rhodesia for the Financial Year Ended 31st March, 1914(London: Darling & Son, Ltd, 1915); ‘Customs Tariff. An Ordinance to Consolidate and Amend the Duties of Customs, Ordinance No. 4 of 1899’ and ‘Ground Nuts. An Ordinance to Regulate the Import and Export of Ground Nuts into and from the Colony and Protectorate, Ordinance No. 5 of 1899’, in Ordinances of the Colony of the Gambia in Force 31st July, 1900, 2 vols (London Waterlow & Sons, 1900), vol. 1, pp. 334–8; Harry L. Stephen, ‘Rebellion in Sierra Leone’, Nineteenth Century, 6:12 (1899), pp. 475–83; Edmund Dene Morel, 1 the Sierra Leone Hut-Tax Disturbances. A Reply to Mr. Stephen 2 (Liverpool: John Richardson & Sons, Printers, 29 Dale Street, 1899); Confidential Despatch to Colonial Office on Toll Collection in Abeokuta and Ibadan (with appendices dated 7 July 1903). Rhodes House Library papers, RH: 732. 14 s 44; Frederick D. Lugard, Administration of Tropical Colonies (Colonial Office: Government Printer, 1906). National Archives, Kew, London, CO/879/88/12; Frederick D. Lugard, 1 Memorandum on the Taxation of Natives in Northern Nigeria, in Colonial Reports – Miscellaneous. No. 40. Northern Nigeria [Cd. 3309] (1907); Percy Girouard, ‘Political Memo. No. 26. Directions for Taxation and Land Revenue’ (1908). Rhodes House Library Papers, RH 723 6 r. 2 1908; Donald Cameron, Tanganyika Territory, Native Administration Memoranda No. III: Native Treasuries, 2nd edn (Dar es Salaam: Government Printer, 1930); Sir Bernard Bourdillon, Apportionment of Revenue and Duties as between the Central Government and Native Administrations (Lagos: Government Printer, 1939); Earl of Cromer, Reports by His Majesty’s Agent and Consul-General on the Finances, Administration, and Condition of Egypt and the Soudan in 1902. Egypt. No. 1 [Cd. 1529] (1903); ‘The Local Taxation Ordinance 1912’ (No. 3 of 1912), in Sudan Ordinances and Selected Proclamation Notices, Rules, Regulations and Orders Issued in the Years 1909 to 1913 (London: Warlow & Sons, 1912), pp. 57–66; Report on the Administration, Finances and Condition of the Sudan in 1936. Sudan No. I (1937), pp. 23–9; High Commissioner of Swaziland, Proclamation Consolidating and Amending the Laws relating to the Taxation of Natives in Swaziland (1916). National Archives, Kew, London, No. 1, 1916 in CO 550/4; C. K. Dain, Instructions for the Use of Administrative Officers in regard to the Collection of Native Poll Tax; Instructions for the Use of Saza Chiefs in regard to the Collection of Native Poll Tax; Instructions to Gombolola Chiefs in regard to the Collection of Native Poll Tax (Uganda: Government Printer, 1926); Income Tax Uganda Protectorate Despatch and Petitions (1932). National Archives, Kew, London, CO 536/172/22; Alan W. Pim, ‘Colonial Finance and Native Administration’, Oxford Summer School on Colonial Administration, Second Session (Oxford: Oxford University Press, printed privately for members of the school, 1938); Alan W. Pim, 1 Report of the Commission Appointed to Enquire into and Report on the Financial Position and System of Taxation in Kenya (London: His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1936), colonial No. 116; W. J. A. Jones, Memorandum on the Introduction of Direct Taxation in the Gold Coast Colony (Accra: Government Printing Office, 1931); Minutes of the Meeting of the Joint Conference of the Provincial Councils Held at Saltpond in April, 1932 (Gold Coast: Government Printer, 1933)

    Biography

    Casper Anderson