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Coll 1/49 'Aden. Administration and control: changes consequent on Indian constitutional reforms; transfer to HMG' [77v] (159/968)
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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(36961-29) Wb. 601-3667 1000 7/36 P. St 0.373
21. Whenever any offender shall have been condemned by the
sentence of any Court in the Colony to suffer death the Governor shall
call upon the judge who presided at the trial to make him a written
report of the case of such offender, and shall cause such report to
be taken into consideration at a meeting of the Executive Council,
and he may cause the said Judge to be specially summoned
at such meeting and to produce his notes thereat. The GOnw
shall not pardon or reprieve any such offender unless it shall appear
to him expedient so to do upon receiving the advice of the Executive
Council thereon ; but in all such cases he is to decide either to extend
or to withhold a pardon or reprieve, according to his own deliberate
judgment, whether the Members of the Executive Council concur
therein or otherwise; entering, nevertheless, on the Minutes of the
Executive Council a Minute of his reasons at length, in case he
should decide any such question in opposition to the judgment of
the majority of the Members thereof.
22. It being Our intention that all persons inhabiting the Colony
should have full liberty of conscience and the free exercise of their
respective modes of religious worship, We do hereby require the
Governor to permit all persons within the Colony to have such
liberty, and to exercise such modes of religious worship, provided
they be content with a quiet and peaceable enjoyment of the same,
not giving offence or scandal to the Government.
23. The Governor shall punctually forward to Us from year to
year, through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, the annual
book of returns, commonly called the Blue Book, relating to the
Revenue and Expenditure, Public Works, Legislation, Civil Estab
lishments, Pensions, Population, Schools, Course of Exchange.
Imports and Exports, Agricultural Produce, Manufactures, and
other matters in the said Blue Book more particularly specified, with
reference to the state and condition of the Colony.
24. In these Our Instructions the term “ the Governor ” shall,
unless inconsistent with the context, include every person for the
time being administering the Government of the Colony. 25
25. Except in the cases provided for in the above recited Order
the Governor shall not quit the Colony without having obtained
leave from Us for so doing under our Sign Manual and Signet, or
through one of our Principal Secretaries of State.
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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).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (480 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume
- Physical characteristics
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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- Title
- Coll 1/49 'Aden. Administration and control: changes consequent on Indian constitutional reforms; transfer to HMG'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:67v, 70r:77v, 80r:146v, 147ar:147av, 147r:159r, 159av, 159r, 159av, 160r:355v, 357r:366v, 375r:376v, 385r:413v, 415r:423v, 426r:440v, 453r:459v, 462r:479v, back-i
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