Coll 1/21 'The Resident: leave and acting arrangements; duties of Civil Secretary' [199r] (399/886)
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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Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
in the Persian
Gulf to Secretary of State for India,
Dated Bushire sub 22nd December 8 1933.
Received 3c 15 pcin., 22nd December, 1933.
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PersonalcFowle to Metcalfe, repeated Fowl® to Laithwaite*
I am afraid that 1 must protest very stror^iy against the
proposal made in your demi-official letter dated 8 th December
that Rivett-Carnac should come here as my 3 eeret&ry f vice
Gastrell. You will doubtless remember that in the course of
a conversation which I had with you and Laithwaite in London,
§ivett“Carnac 8 s name happened to come up in connection with
Reilly’s opinion of him as definitely incapable of oaxryirg on
&r; Secretary, Aden. Reilly himself afterwards confirmed this
opinion to me in no measured terms* If Hivett-Oarnac ie
incapable of beir^ Saoretary, Aden, he is certainly incapable
of being Secretary here, where work is at least equally imoortant
snd perhaps more complicated* Moreover, if proposal contained
in your demi-official letter, which I deprecate, that Chauncy
next autumn should go from Mo hammer ah,-where he is doing very
well,-to India, is not carried out there is no need for
Rivett-Carnao to come to the Gulf at all, as Watts can become
vrty Secretary, as was originally intended. I have telegraphed
above instead of wntirg as you asked for mj comment by telegran
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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)
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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 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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- Coll 1/21 'The Resident: leave and acting arrangements; duties of Civil Secretary'
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- front, front-i, 2r:134v, 135ar, 135br, 135r:435v, 439r:441v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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