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Coll 1/21 'The Resident: leave and acting arrangements; duties of Civil Secretary' [297r] (595/886)
The record is made up of 1 file (442 folios). It was created in 15 Apr 1925-20 Jul 1940. 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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what circi«QRtancois this power has been exercised in the pact
and Ido not think we ehonld be justified in exercieing it in
a cace where the officiating inotrabent aenstmee the full
reeponeibilitiee of the poet. It will be seen that the
Indian rules are ranch more favourable than the Colonial
riles and that the application of two sets of Piles differing
so widely is likely to f^ve rise to anomalies# The
Fundamental Rules are statutory and I do not see how we can
g£ve a Protectorate Secretary who belongs to the Political
Deportment less than the Indian pay of a Resident when he
officiates as such# It is hardly for this Office to suggest
that the Colonial Office should improve their Piles but I do
not think that we should object if they decided to amend them
so as to allow their officiating pay arrangements to operate
even if the Resident were absent on full pay leave, or if
they were to go a step further and to allow a Protectorate
Secretary of their Service officiating as Resident the
Sterling: pay of a Resident whenever he happens to be absent
on leave.
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The file contains correspondence regarding leave arrangements for Government officials in Aden, including the Resident (later Chief Commissioner, and then Governor), the Assistant Residents, the Protectorate Secretary, the Civil Secretary, and the District Magistrate. The following topics are discussed: the temporary secondment of officials to cover positions; the pay and allowances due to officials assuming temporary positions to cover leave; the proportion of funds to be contributed by 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. and the Colonial Office; and the suitability of officials for particular posts.
The correspondence dated between 1932-1933 also contains references to the treaty negotiations conducted between the Resident (Sir Bernard Reilly) and the Imam of Yemen. Correspondence dated between 1934-1935 contains references to the transfer of the civil administration of the Aden Protectorate from the Government of India to the Colonial Office.
The principal correspondents are: the Aden Resident (later Chief Commissioner, then Governor); 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 (John Charles Walton, Sir John Gilbert Laithwaite); the Colonial Office (Hubert Russell Cowell, F J Howard, Kenneth William Blaxter), and the Foreign and Political Department, Government of India (William Kerr Fraser-Tytler).
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 (folios 1-2).
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- 1 file (442 folios)
- Arrangement
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 442; 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/12/1457
- Title
- Coll 1/21 'The Resident: leave and acting arrangements; duties of Civil Secretary'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:134v, 135ar, 135br, 135r:435v, 439r:441v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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