56 (No. 96 PRESENT CONDITIONS Departments of Administration. Natives are not yet employed in the Central Administration, though their use is regarded as an ideal to be attained when possible. There are Arab governors, however , in the towns, and in the Wahadimu and Wapemba villages the masheba ( headmen ) collect the hut tax and assist the autho rities, though unpaid by Government. In Pemba the chief official is a collector at Chaki Chaki. The island is kept in close touch with the Zanzibar Administration by a weekly steamer service and wireless telegraphy.

The Indian Penal Code and Codes of Civil and Criminal Procedure are applicable in the Protectorate, due regard being paid to the general principles of Mo hammedan law ,and to any native law or custom not repugnant to justice or morality. The fundamental law in civil matters is that of Islam .

In jurisdiction, His Britannic Majesty's Court, con sisting of one judge and one or more assistant judges, deals with all actions, civil or criminal , to which a British or British-protected person or the subject of a foreign Power is a party. It has also certain Admi ralty jurisdiction. The Sultan's local courts deal with cases where the subjects of the Sultan alone are con cerned. They are under the general supervision of His Majesty's Judge. In the town of Zanzibar these courts are composed of two European magistrates, assisted by Arab kadis. In the country districts and in Pembacases are tried by a magistrate or a district or assistant district commissioner. The final appeal in all cases lies to the British Judge, sitting as Sultan's Judge.

Appeal from His Britannic Majesty's Court in cer tain criminal and civil cases lies to His Majesty's Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa. Up to 1914 such appeal lay to the High Court of Bombay.