Reasons For The Signing Of The 1900 Buganda Agreement
However, with the signing of the 1900 Agreement, land was allocated to Kabaka, its family members and its leaders, as civil servants and also as individuals. The land issue was addressed in Article 15, which estimated the total area of land in Buganda at 19,600 square miles. But the agreement also stipulated that if a survey were to be conducted, and it was found that Buganda had less than 19,600 square miles, “then the part of the country that must be entrusted to Her Majesty`s Government will be reduced to the extent by the lack found in the estimated area.” After the agreement came into force, the country was divided in Buganda to Mailo and Kronland. Mailo Land belonged to the von Buganda government and its officials, while the Crown belonged to the protectorate government. The Uganda Agreement of March 1900 (alternatively the Mengo Treaty) formalized relations between the Kingdom of Uganda and the British protectorate of Uganda. [1] It was amended by the Buganda Convention of 1955 and the Buganda Convention of 1961. The signing of the Buganda Treaty had an impact on Baganda`s political life, which destroyed its existing surveillance system and replaced it with the English administrative system. The Kabaka and its leaders were deprived of their political power and became puppets for the administrators of the United Kingdom. This is why Baganda has experienced a new management system, considered the use of indirect domination.
Officials of the Kingdom. Regent Stanislas Mugwanya (middle) with other Buganda chiefs in the 1890s, during the reign of Kabaka Daudi Chwa II. The regents and chiefs were beneficiaries of the distribution of land under the De Buganda Agreement of 1900, which rewarded them for their collaboration with the British. FILE PHOTO Done in English and Luganda in Mengo, Kingdom of Uganda, March 10, 1900. Unlike the treaties of 1893 and 1894, the Ugandan Convention of 1900 included clear borders of the Kingdom of Uganda, a land ownership system and a tax policy. [3] The country of Mailo was subdivided between members of the royal family, Reich officials and a few individuals. Other beneficiaries were religious institutions. At the time of the signing of the agreement, the figures of the allocated area were estimated. After consultation, the contracting parties had to sit down together and conclude what the agreement had decided after the award. This culminated in the attribution of Buganda from 1913 Agreement.As after Article 15, the natives who did not enter the categories of persons to whom the land was allocated were rendered landless. They became squatters.
The tax system, which was to finance the new administrative structure, was also introduced as part of the agreement. 20. If, in the first two years following the signing of this agreement, the Kingdom of Uganda does not pay the Ugandan administration, the taxation of indigenous peoples is half the amount owed to the number of inhabitants; or should, at any time, not pay, without reason or excuse, the aforementioned minimum taxes due in relation to the population; or the Kabaka, ugandan leaders or people should at all times adopt a policy clearly unfaithful to the British protectorate; Her Majesty`s government will no longer be bound by the terms of this agreement. On the other hand, if the revenue from the shack and arms tax exceeds a total value of $45,000 per year for two years, Kabaka and district chiefs have the right to call on Her Majesty`s government to increase subsidies to Kabaka and grants for ministers and local leaders. that this increase is in the same proportional ratio as the increase in income from the taxation of indigenous peoples. The Ugandan Convention of 1900 (see Native Agreement and Buganda Native Laws, Laws of the Portal, Alfred Tucker, Bishop of East Africa, then Bishop of Uganda, asked the British authorities to retake Uganda.[2] On 29 May 1893, a contract between Portalaka and Kabwanga informal Uganda secured Uganda.