Land, 1927-1957 and n.d.
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 502
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises:
- folder 1 (fols. 1-5) notes of a conversation between officials of Tanganyika (Tanzania) and Kenya, including the Chief Native Commissioner and his deputy, about regulations to control the movement of stock on grazing ground conceded to the Kenya Maasai, 1927
- folder 2 (fols. 1-3) report from Philip Mitchell, Acting Provincial Commissioner of the Northern Province, to the Director of Surveys, on the survey of the land boundary with Kenya, 1927
- folder 3 (fols. 1-42) reports on the Maasai district and the provision of water, with sketch maps, 1928-1929
- folder 4 (fols. 1-15) rules governing tenancies under then Nyarubanja or Kibaja forms of tenure, with a covering letter to Margery Perham from E.L. Richards, 1930
- folder 5 (fols. 1-38) Ulunguru Mountains land development survey, with notes by Margery Perham, 1930
- folder 6 (fols. 1-32) note by R.W. Gordon on 'General German Policy regarding Native Land Tenure', memorandum by Campbell on 'Land Tenure: Tanganyika Territory' copied from the Secretariat file, and a précis of reports on indigenous systems of tenure by District Political Officers, noting the differences between their accounts and German usage as ascertained by Gordon, 1930
- folder 7 (fols. 1-31) 'The system of land tenure in Bugufi' by D.K.D., n.d.
- folder 8 (fols. 1-48) notes on land tenure by Philip Mitchell, translation of a case register [by Mervyn] Silvester, with a letter commenting on Margery Perham's three articles on East Africa in The Times, an address on 'Peasant holdings' by A.J. Wakefield, Deputy Director of Agriculture, and reports by O. Guise Williams, D. Thornton, and D.W. Malcolm on land tenure, 1930-1931
- folder 9 (fols. 1-8) report on the concentration of the Urambo within their tribal area, 1936
- folder 10 (fols. 1-4) form of agreement and schedule of sale of land to the Tanganyika (Southern Highlands) Estates Limited and a memorandum on legal and moral obligations to dispossessed Pangani householders, c. 1936
- folder 11 (unfoliated) land and white settlement: press cuttings, 1930-1948
- folder 12 (unfoliated) land resettlement: press cuttings, 1944-1957.
Dates
- Creation: 1927-1957 and n.d.
Extent
12 folders
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Perham 502
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Contact:
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Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk