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Coll 1/21 'The Resident: leave and acting arrangements; duties of Civil Secretary' [303r] (607/886)
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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Financial Secretary,
For favour of observations on the Colonial
Office letter of 15th December.
2. Please see in this connection Colonel
Reilly»s earlier letter of 7th September on
P.Z.6319/32. We asked the Government of India for
comments on the question of the pay of the Acting
Resident in our air mail letter of 28th October.
No reply has yet been received, but it may be
desirable either to address them again or to send a
reminder in the light of your comments on the present
letter.
3. There can, I think, be no question that the
Protectorate Secretary; who is a British Service
officer on a scale of about £1100 a year less 10 %,
would be inadequately remunerated by the addition of
an acting allowance of say Rs.400 only*! and prima
fac j. e i am disposed to think that the simplest course
in the circumstances would be that we should lay it
down as a general rule that in cases in which the
Political Secretary acts as Resident the rules of his
own Service should apply. The posts both of Resident
and of Political Secretary fall to be filled
alternately irom the Indian and the Colonial Services.
The Treasury am the Colonial Office, with whom I
have discussed the suggestion unofficially are prinia
facie disposed to favour it.
I am not quite clear what the position is
as regards Colonel Reilly’s entitlement to full pay 1
during his forthcoming leave. If the Colonial Service
regulations/
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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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- 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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