The chapter explores the agency of the Temne in local administration, and how they organized themselves around various symbols of authority in the colony. This aspect of the colony’s history is significant, because the history of local administration is extensively viewed through the prism of the Municipal Council, or Freetown Corporation/Freetown City Council, run by Freetonians. By equating local or native administration with the Municipal Council, the historical literature downplays the role indigenous ethnic communities played in fostering local governance in this hodgepodge British territory. The chapter shows that local administration and community governance in the colony contributed to the success of the British colonial project in Sierra Leone.