Category: Northern Rhodesia

Department of Mines

Certificate of Extra Work (I)

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Northern Rhodesia

Native Commissioner’s Office

Taxes

• Native Tax

Northern Rhodesia

Mines Office

In 1924, when the British South Africa Company was relieved of its political obligations in Northern Rhodesia, the Company continued to manage a wide range of agricultural, mining and commercial interests. On 23rd October, 1964 when Northern Rhodesia achieved Independence, the company agreed to surrender its mineral rights claims in return for £4,000,000 (half of which was paid by the UK and half by Zambia).

Forms

• Certificate of Extra Work
  • 1945 – Certificate of Extra Work (I)
• Inspection Certificate
  • 1945 – Inspection Certificate (I)

Mining Commissioner’s Office

• Certificate of Registration (Form 3)
  • 1912 – Form 3 Certificate of Registration (A 100)
• Certificate of Transfer (Form 7)
  • 1912 – Form 7 Certificate of Transfer (A 99)
• Prospecting Licence
  • 1926 – Prospecting Licence (I)

Registrar of Mining Titles

• Certificate of Abandonment
  • 1941 – Certificate of Abandoment (I)

People

• Fawdry, John Adams

Northern Rhodesia

Office of Mines – Form 3 (A 100)

Details

• Date of Issue: 3 April 1912
• Dept: Department of Mines
• Reqn.: A 100
• Printer: 
• Paper:
• Quantity: 2500

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Northern Rhodesia

Northern Rhodesia was initially administered by the British South Africa Company (BSAC), under two protectorates; North-Western Rhodesia and North-Eastern Rhodesia. Although under the BSAC charter it had features of a charter colony, the BSAC’s treaties with local rulers and British legislation gave it the status of a protectorate. In 1911 the two protectorates amalgamated to form Northern Rhodesia.

From 1924 it was administered by the British Government as a protectorate under similar conditions to other British-administered protectorates, and the special provisions required when it was administered by BSAC were terminated.

The territory attracted a relatively small number of European settlers, but from the time these first secured political representation, they agitated for white minority rule, either as a separate entity or associated with Southern Rhodesia and possibly Nyasaland. The mineral wealth of Northern Rhodesia made full amalgamation attractive to Southern Rhodesian politicians, but the British Government preferred a looser association to include Nyasaland. This was intended to protect Africans in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland from discriminatory Southern Rhodesian laws.

The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland formed in 1953 was intensely unpopular among the vast African majority and its formation hastened calls for majority rule. As a result of this pressure, the country became independent in 1964 as Zambia.

Political Parties

• United Federal Party

Acts & Ordinances

• 1948 – Migrant Labour Act

Government

• Legislative Council

Departments

• Department of Mines
• Department of Natives Affairs

Services

• Livingstone Museum
• National Monuments Commission of Northern Rhodesia
• Northern Rhodesia Police
• Stationery