Meyer Amschel Rothschild, der Gründer des Rothschildschen Bankhauses

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Identifikator:: 1016729413

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-61429

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Berghoeffer, Christian Wilhelm http://d-nb.info/gnd/115671919

Title:: Meyer Amschel Rothschild, der Gründer des Rothschildschen Bankhauses

Place of publication:: Frankfurt am Main

Publisher:: Verlag Englert & Schlosser

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (272 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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4 COLONIAL REPORTS—MISCELLANEOUS. fief from tlie Emir. Finally, the residuum which remained to the Principal Chief was squandered in the maintenance of a large hareem, and in the purchase of scents, embroidered robes, and such articles of luxury, and no part of the vast sums wrung from the peasantry was devoted to works of utility, or to any object for the benefit of the people who paid the taxes. 2. The Government of Northern Nigeria was, by the circum stances of the case, placed in a difficult position in this matter. Prior to January, 1903, no really adequate steps for the amelioration of these abuses could be taken, for the Emirates of Sokoto and Kano still defied the Government, and the minor Emirs in the south (who. had nominally submitted to the control of the Administration) waited sullenly to see which of the two were to be the ultimate rulers of the Protectorate. They more than doubted the ability of the Government to conquer the Hausa States in the north, and until this was proved, even those who were inclined to accept British rule dared not too openly declare themselves. Meanwhile their power over their subjects was gone, their prestige had been broken, and their armies no longer existed for the enforcement of their arbitrary demands. The peasantry refused to pay their taxes, and every month which passed was injurious to the utimate settlement of the country, in that it appeared to prove to the peasantry that no power now existed which could maintain order, and enforce just and recog nised obligations and taxes. The inclusion of the Northern Hausa 'States under British control became, therefore, a most imperative necessity, for if it were deferred the remainder of the country would have lapsed into a state of defiance of all recognised authority, from which its reclamation would have been a task of very great difficulty. In 1902 Bornu and Yola were brought under control, and early in 1903 Sokoto, Kano, and Zaria submitted. At the end of 1903 (on my return from leave) a scheme was tentatively begun, and the revenue realised in the financial year 1903-04 was £8,255. In June, 1904, the first Land Revenue Proclamation gave legal effect to a system under which the Government would share in the taxes, and this was superseded early in 1900 by a more elaborate proclamation, under the title of the “ Native Revenue Proclamation,” and based upon fuller knowledge of the conditions. In my covering despatch to the Secretary of State I thus described the object of the new ordinance :— “The essential difference between this proclamation and the one it supersedes, is that the former pro clamation was limited to land and produce (including livestock), whereas this includes all forms of taxation known to the country, and makes any taxation not authorised by it illegal and punishable. While the former proclamation was only a tentative one, with the object of securing to the revenue a certain proportion of the taxes on land and produce levied by the native chiefs, and did not in any way touch the nature of

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