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2. These Rules have been framed in connection with the efforts which we are now making to prevent the spread of sleeping sickness, and with special reference to the suppression of the disease in the Peninsula of Entebbe. Under the authority conveyed by them we hope to regulate the residence and movements of all natives within the town and its immediate neighbourhood, and so to prevent the introduction of persons suffering from sleeping sickness.

3. In consonance with the views expressed in my despatch, No. 195, of 10th October,* dealing with the suggested removal of the headquarters of this Adminis- tration; I propose to restrict the native population of Entebbe to such an approxi- mate number of male and female labourers as may be found necessary for the upkeep of the station. These will be located in a labour camp, and will be kept under proper supervision. I trust that, by these measures, the health of the European inhabitants will be considerably improved, and that the sanitation of the settlement will be much ameliorated.

I have, &c.,

H. HESKETH BELL,

Enclosure in No. 101 UGANDA PROTECTORATE.

His Majesty's Commissioner.

RULES made by His Majesty's Commissioner for the Uganda Protectorate under the provisions of "The Uganda Townships Ordinance, 1903," (No. 10 of 1903), to apply, until further orders, to the township of Entebbe.

Entebbe,

November 30, 1906.

H. HESKETH BELL, His Majesty's Commissioner.

SLEEPING SICKNESS PREVENTION.

1. Every native (save as hereinafter mentioned) at present within, or hereafter coming into the limits of the township of Entebbe, shall apply to the Officer in Charge of the Native Bureau at Katabi, and shall obtain from him a badge in such form as may from time to time be prescribed by the Commissioner. Domestic and menial servants employed by a European American or Asiatic employer having his place of residence within Entebbe (hereinafter referred to as a domestic or menial

servant "shall apply for and obtain such badge as aforesaid at the Collectorate.

2. Every native making application for a badge shall give such true information respecting his or her name, family, tribe, age, employment, health, or otherwise as shall be required, and the issue of a badge may be refused to any native whose replies are insufficient or unsatisfactory, or for any other reason.

3. Every native shall at all times while in Entebbe wear the badge issued to him or her suspended from the neck, or in such other way as may from time to time be prescribed by the Commissioner.

4. Upon leaving Entebbe every native shall surrender such badge to the Officer Charge of the Native Bureau, or in the case of a native leaving by canoe or steamer, dhow, or other vessel, to the Officers hereinafter mentioned, or in the case of domestic or menial servants, to the Collectorate. No native shall transfer, assign, or other- wise dispose of any badge issued to him as aforesaid, save by surrender in manner aforesaid.

5. Every native arriving by steamer, dhow, or other vessel (except by canoe), at Entebbe shall obtain upon the landing stage from the Collector or such officer as he shall appoint a badge. Such badge shall be in the prescribed form, and shall be worn, held, and surrendered by such native in accordance with the provisions of these Rules. Any native leaving Entebbe by steamer, dhow, or other vessel (except by canoe), shall surrender his or her badge at the landing stage to the Collector or such other officer as aforesaid.

6. Canoes, whether owned or used by natives or others, shall not, except with the permission of the Collector (which may be given generally or specially) of under

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stress of weather, communicate with the shore within the limits of the township of Entebbe at any other place than the landing place at Muniago or such other landing place or places as may by notice be authorized by the Commissioner.

7. All canoes using a landing place shall be registered by the Collector or such other officer as he shall appoint. A number shall be allotted, and shall be painted upon the canoe in such manner as the Collector shall prescribe, and a permit shall be given to the owner of the canoe stating his name, district, and the number of his canoe. Such permit shall be presented for inspection upon arrival and departure by the owner or person in charge of such canoe.

8. No person shall disembark, nor shall goods be landed from any canoe at a landing place, without the permission of the Collector (which may be given gener- ally or specially), or of such other officer as aforesaid. Upon permission being given to land from any such canoe as aforesaid, every native (other than natives mentioned in Rule 14) shall obtain from the Collector or such other officer as aforesaid a badge. Such badge shall be in the prescribed form, and shall be worn, held, and surrendered by such native in accordance with the provisions of these Rules. Any native leaving Entebbe by canoe shall surrender his or her badge to the Collector or such other officer as aforesaid at the landing place.

9. The person in charge of a canoe, and the passengers and crew thereof, shall comply with such directions as the Collector or such other officer as aforesaid may from time to time give in regard to disembarkation, landing of goods, cleaning of canoes, and the like for the prevention of the spread of sleeping sickness or otherwise. 10. It shall be lawful for the Collector or such other officer as aforesaid to inspect and examine any canoe, the occupants of which intend to make use of a landing place, together with the contents thereof, and for that purpose to go on board such canoe, whether such canoe shall have reached shore at the landing place or not.

11. If upon such examination or inspection the Collector or such other officer as aforesaid shall see any tsetse fly or flies (Glossina palpalis) in or upon any such canoe, or the contents thereof, the owner and the crew of such canoe, and each and every of them, shall be deemed to have committed an offence, and shall be liable to imprisonment or fine as upon a breach of these Rules, unless they shall prove that due care and diligence was used to prevent such fly or flies being carried in

such canoe.

12. No canoe manned by a native crew or carrying native passengers shall leave Entebbe without the written permission of the Collector. Provided always that a duly registered canoe arriving in Entebbe, whose native crew and native passengers shall duly obtain and surrender badges in accordance with Rule 8, may leave Entebbe, together with the same or part of the same native crew and native passengers only, without such written consent as aforesaid.

13. No charge shall be made upon the issue or surrender of a badge, but if any native shall have lost his badge, and shall apply for another badge, a charge of

3 annas shall be made in respect of the issue of any such new badge.

14. Native chiefs in the performance of their duties, or natives in the Constabu- lary, the Marine, or occupying other permanent offices under the Government (such as interpreters, askaris, or the like), and children under the age of five years, shall not be required to obtain or wear badges.

15. Every native living within Entebbe shall have his or her dwelling at such place or places only as shall from time to time be prescribed by the Commissioner, and shall comply with the direction issued by the Principal Medical Officer for the purpose of maintaining health in such place or places, or for the prevention of the spread of sleeping sickness or other disease. Provided always that natives in the Constabulary, the Marine, or occupying other permanent offices under the Govern- ment, and the wife, child, or servant of any such native, may reside at such quarters as shall be duly assigned to them. And provided that domestic or menial servants, and the wife, child, or servant of any such domestic or menial servant, may, unless the Collector shall otherwise direct, reside in the house or the outbuildings belonging thereto which are in the actual occupation of any employer as aforesaid of such domestic or menial servant.

16. No person shall employ a native within Entebbe who shall not be in possession of and duly wear such badge as aforesaid.

17. In these Rules "native" means any person within the Protectorate other than a person of European, American, or Asiatic origin or extraction.

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