The chief the owner of the land. Each of these three districts of Busoga is governed by a paramount chief who is said to be the owner of the land. His family has for many generations been the head of the tribe and his relatives have been the undisputed rulers. For many years the chief of a district has been under the suzerainty of another country: for some time this has been Uganda, though all the details of government of each district have been left with the paramount chief and there has been no appeal to Uganda, except in the question of a man taking his place as heir to a deceased chief when there have usually been several claimants for possession. Each district has numbers of sub-chiefs; indeed a peasant may become a chief at any time, if he can so advance himself as to be able to provide enough cattle to pay the paramount chief a handsome present, and if he also has a few men at his command. Once a sub-chief is established in office, he pays no taxes because there are no taxes levied in the country by any chief; still, a peasant acknowledges his over-chief by giving him presents of goats, sheep and, sometimes, a cow, and by making him gifts of beer and food, and especially at harvest by sending to him quantities of grain.