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Coll 1/53 'Aden. Enlargement of naval oil fuel storage' [61r] (121/184)
The record is made up of 1 file (92 folios). It was created in 19 Jun 1934-22 Apr 1937. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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4 .
colonial governments, whose report should he final. The
cost of employing such surveyor would he home by the
colonial government, hut should he placed to its credit
in the special account.
8 * Any lands and buildings provided hereafter for
defensive purposes under this arrangement, including land
required for rifle ranges or other purposes conducing to
the efficiency of the garrison, would be occupied by the
military upon a right of perpetual user only, the fee
simple of the land remaining in the Crown represented by
the colonial government. In the event of any such lands
being at any time surrendered by the military authorities
they would be dealt with in the manner above detailed.
9« Before any buildings are commenced, the cost of
which will be chargeable to the special account, the govermr
will be informed of the nature and estimated cost of the
proposed buildings in order that any observations that he
may wish to offer upon them may be duly considered by Her
Majesty^ Government.
10 . It is not proposed to re-open any transactions already
closed, and lands which have already passed out of military
occupation will remain the property of the colony, subject
of course to any conditions which may have been attached to
them at the time when they came into the possession of the
colonial government.
11. The foregoing proposal relates solely to the terms on
which colonial military lands, in the hands of the War
Department, should be surrendered to a colonial government.
It does not affect the obligation of a colony to provide
other lands required within its borders for military
purposes, whether under some special agreement or under the
general obligation that rests on every colony to contribute
according to its means towards its own defence. Whatever
the/
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The file contains papers regarding the proposed expansion of the Admiralty fuel depot on the Maalla plain [Al Ma'alla] near Aden harbour. The file mainly consists of correspondence between the Admiralty, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Political Department, the Aden Chief Commissioner, the Aden Port Trust, and the Government of India Foreign Department.
The topics discussed include: possible sites for the enlargement, with reference made to Admiralty Chart No. 3660; the appointment of a Civil Engineer to conduct a site survey; the possibility of the Admiralty acquiring the land free of charge, under the terms of a 1928 agreement which stated that Crown land in the charge of a municipal authority or local body could be made available free of cost for imperial purposes; and negotiations with the Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes, to acquire a harbour site currently occupied by them.
The file includes Admiralty map 504/36 (folio 22) showing a section of the Aden harbour and the area identified for the fuel depot expansion.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 1).
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- 1 file (92 folios)
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The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the file
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 92; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/1491
- Title
- Coll 1/53 'Aden. Enlargement of naval oil fuel storage'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:21v, 23r:91v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence