1072 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V
Natal the independent position of the Governor has not
produced any obviously satisfactory results.
The actual detailed administration of the Protectorates will
be carried on as before by Resident Commissioners, who will
be required in addition to their other duties to prepare annual
estimates of revenue and expenditure and forward them to
the Prime Minister, when they will be submitted to the
Commission and approved of or amended by the Prime
Minister, and thereupon become binding upon the Resident
Commissioner by being enacted by a proclamation by the
Governor-General in Council.
There shall be paid into the Treasury of the Union all
duties of customs levied on dutiable articles imported into
and consumed within the territories, and there shall be paid
out of the Treasury annually towards the cost of adminis-
tration in each territory a sum in respect of the duties which
shall bear to the total customs revenue of the Union in
respect of each financial year the same proportion as the
average of the customs revenue for the three complete
financial years last preceding the taking effect of the Act bore
to the average of the whole customs revenue for all the
Colonies and Territories included in the Union received
during the same period. In case the revenue for any territory
for any financial year shall be insufficient to meet the expendi-
ture, the deficiency shall be advanced from the funds of any
other territory. If this cannot be arranged, the deficiency
shall be advanced by the Union Government. In case there
shall be a surplus for any territory, such surplus shall in the
first instance be devoted to repayment of any sums previously
advanced by any territory or the Union Government to cover
any deficiency in such territory, and thereafter it shall be
lawful for the Governor-General in Council to lend the whole
or any part of such surplus to any other territory. Subject
to these provisions, the revenues derived from any territory
shall be expended for and on behalf of the territory in
question, provided that the Governor-General in Council
may make a special appropriation for defence or other
general purposes of the Union, provided that the contribution
shall not bear a higher proportion to the total cost of the
