Coll 1/53 'Aden. Enlargement of naval oil fuel storage' [52v] (104/184)
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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which was occasioned hy the proposal made in 1627 to
absorb the old Cantonments area into the Aden Settlement^
will be found in the attached volume flagged from M A' to
The War Office letter of 8 th December, 1927
(Flag A) describes the obligation, which it was suggested
that the Government of India might accept, as “a general
obligation similar to that devolving on Colonial
Governments vis-sl- vis the War Department". The
Viceroy's telegram of 28th March 1928 (Flag B) says that
the Government of India "accept general obligation similar
to that devolving on Colonial Governments"; while our
letter of 25th April 1928 to the War Office also refers
to a "general obligation similar to that devolving on
Colonial Governments vis-a.-vis the Defence Departments
of His Majesty's Government". The later correspondence!
(flagged ”D H to M F M ) refers only to two Defence
Departments (i.e. the Air Ministry and the War Office)
as benefiting by the Government of India's undertaking
but it is quite clear from the earlier correspondence
that the Admiralty were also intended to be included, j
and indeed the Government of India themselves agree
that this is the case. There is no suggestion anywhere |
in the correspondence that the undertaking to provide
land free of cost was intended, as the Government of
India now suggest, to be limited to land in the old
Cantonments area. Indeed, since under the Cabinet
decision of 192? the Government of India were bound to
surrender outright to the Defence Departments the land
and buildings in the Cantonments Area, it would have
been a poor bargain for the latter to have allowed the
Government of India to retain the reversionary rights
to that property in return merely for an undertaxing
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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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- Coll 1/53 'Aden. Enlargement of naval oil fuel storage'
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- front, front-i, 2r:21v, 23r:91v, 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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