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Coll 1/21 'The Resident: leave and acting arrangements; duties of Civil Secretary' [303v] (608/886)
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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regulations "are applied to kr. Gdampion', as seems on
the whole preferable, some difficulty might arise if
• the Resident was not entitled to full pay leave.
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Political secretary.
^ The suggested plan will not, I fear, work very
satisfactorily. In the first place I gather that under
the Colonial Office Pules the officiating incumbent
receives additional pay only if the permanent
incumbent is on leave other than full pay leave. As
Indian Service Officers earn full pay leave at the rate
of 5 of the period spent on duty and may take such
leav^up to 8 months at any one time it seems unlikely
that a Resident who belongs to the Indian Political
Department would ever take other than full -ay le^ve,
with the consequence that the Protectorate Secretary,
if he were a Colonial Service Officer, would receive
nothing more than substantive pay and allowances.
(He may, of course, receive entertainment allowance
while officiating , but as that is not a remunerative
allowance it need not be considered). On the other
hand, under Fundamental Rule 31 a, Indian service
Officer would draw P a y 01 "kbe post m
which he is officiating provided that the duties and
responsibilities of such post are greater than those
of his permanent post. Presumptive pay of the post
is defined in Fundamental Pule 9 (24) as the pay to which
an officer would be entitled if he held the post
permanently and must mean the pay which would be
admissible to an Indian Service Resident and not the
rate admissible to a Colonial Service Resident.
It is true that Fundamental Pule 35 gives power to the
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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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- 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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