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East frica ] POLITICAL healthy as the west coast of the continent, it contains few , if any, localities which in their present condition are suited to the permanent residence or long sojourn of Europeans , and it is likely to become a native State placed under European super vision and guidance .” The provinces of the Protectorate of Uganda are as follows: (1) Buganda, (2) Eastern, (3) Northern, (4) Western, and (5 ) Rudolf. Some new territory on the west bank of the Nile came under the administration of the Protectorate in the latter part of 1913-14 . The Busoga railway, 62 miles in length , connects Lake Vic toria with the navigable waters of the Nile and Lake Kioga.

(c) Zanzibar The Sultan receives a fixed sum annually and retains his private estates. But the public revenues arewholly administered by British officers. In 1902 the Sultan, on the advice of the British Government , first ap pointed a financial adviser, to the great benefit of his finances.

The Government of the Protectorate is administered by a High Commissioner and a British Resident, who are appointed by Commissioners under His Majesty's Sign Manual and Signet, and exercise their functions under the Zanzibar Order in Council ( 1914 ) . The office of High Commissioner is held by the Governor of British East Africa .

Legislation consists of certain British and Indian Statutes, and also of Decrees of the Sultan, which latter are binding on all persons when countersigned by the British Resident . They are notified to the Secretary of State, and if the Resident revokes his signature to any Decree it ceases to be binding. There is a Council, with advisory and consultative functions, consisting of the Sultan as President, the British Resident as Vice President , and six members ( three official and three non - official).

The Civil Service is composed mainly of European, with a few Indian , officials. There are soine eighteen