Northern Nigeria

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Identifikator:: 863607721

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-45464

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry http://d-nb.info/gnd/117667412

Title:: Northern Nigeria

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Maj. Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1907

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (65 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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32 COLONIAL REPORTS—MISCELLANEOUS. with. The largest town of a fief-holder was selected, and suffi cient towns were grouped around it so as to equal in tax-paying capacity the aggregate of his former scattered fiefs. The larger and more influential chiefs were given the districts fur thest from the capital. Katsena has also been completed ; the fiefs were not so intermixed there. Katagum required no change, as the districts were already self-contained, and the chiefs resident upon them. The other Emirates still re quire to be done. The former fief-holders have now become district headmen. Assessment can now be undertaken, and all old taxes merged into one—district by district—with the aid of the headman. Office Holders. The Resident states that there are no authorised office-holders other than the ex-fief-holders, now district heads. I think, however, that later on, when district heads reside fully in their districts, it may be necessary to assign a separate salary to the Wazeri, the Alkali; and other prominent functionaries. There are no dispossessed fief-holders unprovided with districts. In Katagum there are 20 office-holders, practically all of whom will be abolished. In Hadeija there are none except the Gala- dima and Alkali. The General Tax. The original native assessment has for the present been adopted as the preliminary assessment, and is considered a very fair one. Taxes have not yet been merged, but are collected in the old way. The new system was deferred until the re grouping into districts was finished. Government only took one-fourth of the tax in the Kano Emirate, simply because the remainder could not be realised, but the full half will be col lected this year. Even the one-fourth was not fully realised. Katsena pays half, and the assessment is now on a very satis factory basis, the district heads having taken great pains in rendering accounts. The Resident states that the general tax amounts to about £44,000, but I have assumed £40,000 only in the absence of precise returns. Half is assigned to Govern ment and half to the native administration. The shares of the latter have not yet been fixed, but, roughly speaking, the Emir has half and the other half is divided among district and village headmen. The adult population is not given, nor the number of males. The gross population is 2,330,000 ; if three-fifths were children, the adults would be 920,000, and the incidence would be 10'43<¿. per adult or (assuming males at 44,000) T?. 9'8M. per male. The Jangali. All herds are nomad. Nothing has yet been done to supervise the collection of this tax, or to ascertain what herds there are, and tq whopi they belong, &c. Recent disturbances at Sofsoto

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