Northern Nigeria

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Identifikator:: 1823002579

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221686

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Liefmann, Robert http://d-nb.info/gnd/118779931

Title:: Inlandskapital, Auslandskapital, Kriegstribute

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Dt. Wiss. Buchhandlung

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 130 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: 3. Kapitel. Falsche Kapitalbildung

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14 COLONIAL REPORTS—MISCELLANEOUS. and the Native Administration £10,208, making- a total of £67,017 to Government and £59,118 to the Native Administra tion, exclusive of kurdin sarauta, gado, and Court fines not shared by Government. The gross assessment has, under the Proclamation, to be approved by the High Commissioner, who may remit all, or a portion, in case of famine or other causes, as in Yola during the past year. Income of Principal Chiefs. 13. In Table C. I have given the approximate net income of the “ principal chiefs ” of the Protectorate. This is made up of the share assigned to them out of the general and jangali taxes, together with an estimate of the probable value realised by them in a year from kurdin sarauta, gado, gaisua (and presents), and fines of courts, &c. No estimate of what these latter amount to is given in the papers at my disposal in the majority of cases, and the incomes shown are, therefore, considerably less than the actual receipts by the chiefs. These incomes are, more over, additional to the incomes derived by principal chiefs from private estates attached to the office. The office-holders also, for the most part, have estates attached to the office they hold. At the end of another year it will be possible to make out these tables with much more precision and accuracy, and it can then be seen not only what is the income of each principal chief in a province, but also what amount is shared among district head men and among village heads, and what offices of State have incomes assigned to them, and how much. Incidence. 14. The task of assessment has involved a simultaneous approximate census of the population, but the figures are still very crude, nor has the proportion of the sexes, and the average number of children in relation to adults, been determined with any accuracy. Some of the figures given for the general tax are not precise, but the total at which I have arrived is probably a very nearly correct statement of the taxation as it stands to day. The taxed population is estimated at 3,000,530 adults. If three children be allowed for every two adults (the minimum it would seem possible to assume), this would represent a taxed population of 7£ millions out of the total 9| at which the popu lation of the Protectorate is estimated. The two millions un taxed represent pagan tribes not under administrative control, such as the Okpotos and Munshis in Bassa and Muri (over half a million), the pagan tribes in Yola, Nassarawa, Bauchi and Zaria, &c. No especial difficulty need be experienced in bring ing these tribes under control. The total of the land or “ general ” tax is estimated at £105,540 (including, of course, the portion assigned to the Native Administration), which gives an average incidence on the taxed adults of 8'44d., and if the proportion of males to females be assumed as three to four, the

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