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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox Former Country<br />
|conventional_long_name = North-Eastern Rhodesia<ref>North-Eastern Rhodesia Order in Council, 1900</ref><br />
|native_name = <br />
|common_name = North-Eastern Rhodesia <br />
|continent = Africa<br />
|region = Central Africa<br />
|country = Northern Rhodesia<br />
|empire = British Empire<br />
|p1 = Company rule in Rhodesia<br />
|flag_p1 = Flag of BSAC edit.svg<br />
|s1 = Northern Rhodesia<br />
|flag_s1 = Flag of Northern Rhodesia (1939-1953).svg<br />
|image_flag = Flag of BSAC.svg<br />
|flag = British South Africa Company<br />
|image_coat = |symbol = <br />
|national_anthem = "[[God Save the Queen|God save the King/Queen]]"<br />
|image_map = |image_map_caption = <br />
|capital = [[Chipata|Fort Jameson]]<br />
|common_languages = English (official)<br>[[Chewa language|Nyanja]], [[Bemba language|Bemba]], [[Tonga language (Zambia)|Tonga]] and [[Lozi language|Lozi]] widely spoken<br />
|government_type = [[Colony|Colonial administration]]<br />
|title_leader = [[British monarchy|Monarch]]<br />
|leader1 = [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Victoria]] <br />
|year_leader1 = 1900–1901<br />
|leader2 = [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|Edward VII]]<br />
|year_leader2 = 1901–1910<br />
|leader3 = [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]]<br />
|year_leader3 = 1910-1911<br />
|title_representative = Administrator<ref>Administrator appointed pursuant to North-Eastern Rhodesia Order in Council, 1900</ref><br />
|representative1 = [[Robert Coryndon|Robert Thorne Coryndon]]<br />
|year_representative1 = 1900–1907 <small>(first)</small><br />
|representative2 = [[Lawrence Aubrey Wallace]]<ref>[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Zambia.html World Statemen Website]</ref><br />
|year_representative2 = 1907-1909<br />
|area_sq_mi =109,000<ref>Encyclopedia of the Laws of England, Volume XIII; Editors: A. Wood Renton, Esq., Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of [[Ceylon]] and Max. A. Robertson, Esq., of the Inner Temple and the Midland Circuit, Barrister-at-Law; Edinburgh; 1 November 1908.</ref><br />
|population_estimate = 7<ref>Encyclopedia of the Laws of England, Volume XIII; Editors: A. Wood Renton, Esq., Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of [[Ceylon]] and Max. A. Robertson, Esq., of the Inner Temple and the Midland Circuit, Barrister-at-Law; Edinburgh; 1 November 1908.</ref><br />
|era = late 19th & early 20th century<br />
|DUPLICATE_date_start = 29 January<br />
|DUPLICATE_year_start = 1900<ref>North-Eastern Rhodesia Order in Council,1900.</ref><ref>The Map of Africa by Treaty By Sir E. Hertslet.</ref><br />
|date_start = 29 January<br />
|year_start = 1900<ref>''The Map of Africa by Treaty'' by Sir E. Hertslet.</ref><br />
|event_end = Amalgamated with [[Barotziland-North-Western Rhodesia]] as [[Northern Rhodesia]]<ref>Proclamation by His Excellency the High Commissioner of South Africa, Northern Rhodesia No 1 of 1911 and made on 17 August 1911[www.barotsepost.com/images/important_barotse_documents/Northern-Rhodesia-Order-in-Council-1911.pdf]</ref><br />
|date_end = <br/>17 August<br />
|year_end = 1911<ref>''Zambia - Justice and the Rule of Law'' By Choolwe Beyani; published on the website of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa on 27 August 2013 and stating that 17 August 1911 was the commencement date for the Northern Rhodesia Order in Council, 1911.<br />
</ref><br />
|currency = {{nowrap|[[Southern Rhodesian pound]]}}<br />
|footnotes = <br />
|today = {{flag|Zambia}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''North-Eastern Rhodesia''' was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[protectorate]] in [[southern Africa|south central Africa]] formed in 1900.<ref>North-Eastern Rhodesia Order in Council, 1900</ref> The protectorate was [[Company rule in Rhodesia|administered]] under charter by the [[British South Africa Company]]. It was one of what were coloquially referred to as the ''three Rhodesian protectorates'',<ref>Encyclopedia of the Laws of England, Volume XIII; Editors: A. Wood Renton, Esq., Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of [[Ceylon]] and Max. A. Robertson, Esq., of the Inner Temple and the Midland Circuit, Barrister-at-Law; Edinburgh; 1 November 1908.</ref> the other two being [[Southern Rhodesia]] and [[Barotziland-North-Western Rhodesia]]. It was amalgamated with [[Barotziland-North-Western Rhodesia]], another territory administered by the British South Africa Company, to form [[Northern Rhodesia]] in 1911.<ref>Northern Rhodesia Order in Council, 1911, S.R.O. 1911 No. 438, p. 85.</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
The colonisation of the region that would become North-Eastern Rhodesia began in 1890.<ref>The colonial state and Africa Agriculture in Chipata district of Northern Rhodesia, 1895-1964, by Alfred Tembo, 2011</ref> [[Joseph Thomson (explorer)|Joseph Thompson]] was dispatched by [[Cecil Rhodes]] of the British South Africa Company to negotiate agreements with African chiefs.<ref>The colonial state and Africa Agriculture in Chipata district of Northern Rhodesia, 1895-1964, by Alfred Tembo, 2011</ref> [[Alfred Sharpe]] was similarly dispatched by the British Consul for [[Nyasaland]] for the same purpose.<ref>The colonial state and Africa Agriculture in Chipata district of Northern Rhodesia, 1895-1964, by Alfred Tembo, 2011</ref> After failing to secure any agreements, Sharpe and Thompson used force to subdue the local people.<ref>The colonial state and Africa Agriculture in Chipata district of Northern Rhodesia, 1895-1964, by Alfred Tembo, 2011</ref> In 1895 the British South Africa Company was granted land and mineral rights over 10,000 square miles by Mozambique Gold, Land and Concession Company, a company it had bought in 1893. In order to better exploit the anticipated mineral wealth, the British South Africa Company incorporated a subsidiary, North Charterland Exploration Company in 1895.<ref>The colonial state and Africa Agriculture in Chipata district of Northern Rhodesia, 1895-1964, by Alfred Tembo, 2011</ref> Effective administration of the region was achieved by the end of 1899.<ref>[http://dspace.unza.zm:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/759/main%20document.PDF?sequence=3 The colonial state and Africa Agriculture in Chipata district of Northern Rhodesia, 1895-1964, by Alfred Tembo, 2011]</ref><br />
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In January 1900 [[Queen Victoria]] signed the North-Eastern Rhodesia Order in Council, 1900. This Order made official the name ''North-Eastern Rhodesia'' and formally proclaimed it a British protectorate.<ref>North-Eastern Rhodesia Order in Council, 1900</ref><ref>''Commonwealth and Colonial Law'' by Kenneth Roberts-Wray, London, Stevens, 1966. P. 753.</ref> Under the Order a regime for the Company's governance of the new protectorate was established. The new protectorate was administered by an Administrator appointed by the [[List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to South Africa|High Commissioner for South Africa]].<ref>Encyclopedia of the Laws of England, Volume XIII; Editors: A. Wood Renton, Esq., Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of [[Ceylon]] and Max. A. Robertson, Esq., of the Inner Temple and the Midland Circuit, Barrister-at-Law; Edinburgh; 1 November 1908.</ref> The High Commissioner legislated by proclamation for the protectorate.<ref>Encyclopedia of the Laws of England, Volume XIII; Editors: A. Wood Renton, Esq., Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of [[Ceylon]] and Max. A. Robertson, Esq., of the Inner Temple and the Midland Circuit, Barrister-at-Law; Edinburgh; 1 November 1908.</ref> The protectorate was divided into 7 administrative districts.<ref>Encyclopedia of the Laws of England, Volume XIII; Editors: A. Wood Renton, Esq., Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of [[Ceylon]] and Max. A. Robertson, Esq., of the Inner Temple and the Midland Circuit, Barrister-at-Law; Edinburgh; 1 November 1908.</ref><br />
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In 1900 [[Robert Edward Codrington]] was appointed as the first Administrator. He held this post until 1907. The last person to serve as Administrator was [[Lawrence Aubrey Wallace]] from 1907 until 1909 after which the position was left vacant. The capital was at Fort Jameson, today called [[Chipata]].<br />
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When the protectorate was amalgamated with [[Barotziland-North-Western Rhodesia]] to form [[Northern Rhodesia]], the Administrator of Northern Rhodesia took over the functions that had been carried out by the Administorator of North-Eastern Rhodesia.<br />
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==Laws==<br />
The laws of England applied to the protectorate, as far as local circumstances permitted.<ref>Order in Council of 1900.</ref> In civil cases between natives, native laws applied so far as was not repugnant to natural justice, or morality, or to any Order in Council, or any regulation thereunder.<ref>Encyclopedia of the Laws of England, Volume XIII; Editors: A. Wood Renton, Esq., Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of [[Ceylon]] and Max. A. Robertson, Esq., of the Inner Temple and the Midland Circuit, Barrister-at-Law; Edinburgh; 1 November 1908.</ref> The Protectorte had a High Court, District Courts and Magistrates' Courts.<ref>Encyclopedia of the Laws of England, Volume XIII; Editors: A. Wood Renton, Esq., Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of [[Ceylon]] and Max. A. Robertson, Esq., of the Inner Temple and the Midland Circuit, Barrister-at-Law; Edinburgh; 1 November 1908.</ref> Appeals from the Protectorate Courts could be made to the Supreme Court of [[Cape Colony]] and from there to the [[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council|Privy Council]] in the United Kingdom.<ref>Encyclopedia of the Laws of England, Volume XIII; Editors: A. Wood Renton, Esq., Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of [[Ceylon]] and Max. A. Robertson, Esq., of the Inner Temple and the Midland Circuit, Barrister-at-Law; Edinburgh; 1 November 1908.</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[British South Africa Company]]<br />
* [[Company rule in Rhodesia]]<br />
* [[Rhodesia (name)]]<br />
* [[Northern Rhodesia]]<br />
* [[Barotziland-North-Western Rhodesia]]<br />
* [[Sir Robert Codrington]], Administrator, 1900–1907<br />
* ''[[North-Eastern Rhodesia Gazette]]''<br />
* [[Rhodesia (disambiguation)]] for dates of the various territories<br />
* [[Northern Rhodesia]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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