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Coll 1/49 'Aden. Administration and control: changes consequent on Indian constitutional reforms; transfer to HMG' [‎75v] (155/968)

The record is made up of 1 volume (480 folios). It was created in 12 Oct 1933-3 Jun 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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5. Whenever any Member, other than an ex officio Member,
bv writing under his hand resign his seat in the Executive Council,
or shall die, or whenever the seat of any such Member shall other
wise become vacant, or whenever any such Member shall be sus
pended from the exercise of his functions as a Member of tb
Executive Council, or be declared by the Governor by an Instr^’;;;
under the Public Seal to be incapable of exercising his functions
as a Member of the Council, or be absent from the Colony, or shall
be acting in an office the holder of which is an ex officio Member of
the Council, the Governor may, by an Instrument under the Public
Seal, appoint some person to be provisionally a Member of the
Council in the place of such Member.
Such person shall forthwith cease to be a Member of the said
Council if his appointment is disallowed by Us, or revoked by the
Glovernor or superseded by the definitive appointment of a Member
of the Council, or if the Member in whose place he was appointed
shall be released from suspension, or, as the case may be, shall be
declared by the Governor capable of again discharging his functions
in the Council, or shall return to the Colony, or shall cease to sit
in the Council as an ex officio Member.
When any person shall be lawfully discharging the functions of
both of the" offices the holders of which are ex officio Members of
the said Council, the Governor may, by an Instrument under the
Public Seal, appoint any fit person to be provisionally a Member of
the Council so long as the said offices shall continue to be discharged
by one person but any such appointment may be disallowed as
aforesaid.
6. The Governor shall, without delay, report to Us, through one
of Our Principal Secretaries of State, every provisional appoint
ment of any person as a Member of the said Executive Council.
Every such person shall hold his place in the Council during
Our pleasure, and the Governor may, by an Instrument under the
Public Seal, revoke any such appointment.
7. The Members of the Executive Council shall have precedence
as We may specially assign, and, in default thereof, first the ex
officio Members, in the order in which their offices are above-
mentioned, then other Members (other than Extraordinary Mem
bers) according to the priority of their respective appointments, or,
if appointed by the same Instrument, according to the order in
which they are named therein, and finally Extraordinary Members.
8 . The Governor shall forthwith communicate these Our Instruc
tions to the Executive Council, and likewise all such others, from
time to time, as We may direct or as he shall find convenient for Our
service to impart to them.
9. The Executive Council shall not proceed to the despatch of
business unless duly summoned by authority of the Governor, nor
unless two Members at the least (exclusive of the Governor or of
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The volume contains papers regarding the transfer of the civil administration of Aden from the Government of India to the Colonial Office, and the preparation of the Aden Colony Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. (1936), and 'Royal Sign Manual and Signet to the Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony of Aden (1937)'.

The volume is predominantly made up of correspondence between 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 Colonial Office, the Aden Chief Commissioner (later Governor) Bernard Reilly, 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. Legal Advisor's Department, and the Secretary of State for India. The volume also contains numerous heavily-annotated drafts of the Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. and the Royal Instructions, plus minutes of meetings held at the Colonial Office, and extracts from the Home Affairs Committee and the Joint Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Final drafts can be found at folios 13-20, in addition to copies of Reilly's inauguration speech (folios 25-28).

The correspondence covers a range of topics, including: Indian and Arab sentiment over the transfer; problems of condominion; the importance of Aden to Britain's imperial aims; representations from the Indian and Aden business communities; the maintenance of representation for Aden subjects at the Bombay High Court; Aden's free port status; questions of income tax and salt duty; the wording of the Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. and Royal Instructions; and a proposal to list the Kuria Muria Islands as a named dependency of Aden, comparable to Shaikh Othman, Imad and Hiswa, and Perim.

The volume includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 4).

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1 volume (480 folios)
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The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume

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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 480; 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. The fold-outs on f 147, f 158 and f 159 are A and B items which are attached to the folios in order to add additional information about the document.

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