[Footnote 39: For many years past, many Chiefs had portions of their tribes living in two, three or more Magisterial divisions. In such cases, a Chief was called on to nominate a headman, with powers almost equal to his own, to control each section. It was, moreover, the Government's policy, on the death of such Chief, to make an arrangement whereby the outlying sections would be absorbed by Chiefs actually resident in the Magisterial districts in which such sections happened to be.] [Footnote 40: Zululand, with a Native population of about 170,000, became, as has been seen, a province of Natal in 1897.] [Footnote 41: Preamble, Act No. 49, 1903.] [Footnote 42: See p. 24. A separate Trust, though consisting of the same personnel, was created in 1909 for Zululand. In this territory alone, the area reserved for Native occupation amounts to nearly 4,000,000 acres.] [Footnote 43: £3 a hut was at first levied, subsequently reduced to 30s.] [Footnote 44: Law No. 28, 1865.] [Footnote 45: Some 1,800 men, women and children had been exempted by 31st December, 1908.] [Footnote 46: Law No. 11, 1865.] III. STATE OF MILITARY ORGANIZATION ON THE OUTBREAK OF REBELLION. When it is borne in mind that the campaign which forms the subject of this history is probably the first to be conducted from start to finish by a British Colony, independently of other than merely moral assistance of Imperial troops, the contents of this chapter will probably prove of greater interest to the reader than would otherwise have been the case. No apology is, therefore, needed for attempting to describe the beginnings and development of military organization in Natal, and to show how it became possible for the Colony, aided to some extent by her sister Colonies, to deal as successfully as she did with the Rebellion.[47] In 1893, when the Imperial Government granted responsible government to Natal, it was arranged that the Colony should assume direct control of her large Native population. It was, at the same time, decided that the garrison of Imperial troops should remain for a period of five years, so as to afford the colonists time within which to organize a defence force. After the expiry of the five years, the Imperial Government began gradually to withdraw the troops.