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Coll 1/49 'Aden. Administration and control: changes consequent on Indian constitutional reforms; transfer to HMG' [‎343v] (695/968)

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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(d) the enforcement by or against the Government
of Aden of claims which, if this Act had not
been passed, might have been enforced by or
against the Secretary of State in Council in
connection with the administration of Aden.
(4) If any such Order is made, it shall confer appellate
jurisdiction from courts in Aden upon such court in
India as may be specified in the Order, and it shall be
the duty of any court in India upon which jurisdiction is
so conferred to exercise that jurisdiction, and such
contribution, if any, as His Majesty in Council may
determine shall be paid out of the revenues of Aden
towards the expenses of that court.
The Order shall also make provision specifying the
cases in which an appeal from that court in India may
be brought to Hia Majesty in Council.
(5) Any property which immediately before the
separation of Aden from India was vested in His Majesty
for the purposes of the Government of India and either
was then situate in Aden, or, by virtue of any delegation
from the Secretary of State in Council or otherwise, was
then in the possession, or under the control of, or held on
account of, the Local Government of Aden, shall, as from
the said separation, vest in His Majesty for the purposes
of the Government of Aden, and any contract made or
liability incurred by or on behalf of the Secretary of
State in Council before the said separatio solely for a
purpose which will after the separation be purpose of
the Government of Aden shall, as from the separation,
have effect as if it had been made or incurred by or on
behalf of the Government of Aden.
[25 & 26 Geo. 5.]
New Provinces and alterations of boundaries of Provinces.
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289 .—( 1 )
by Order in Cc>tlncil appoint-
(a) Sipd shall be separated ffbm the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. of
bmbay and shall forpi a Governor’s Province
to be known as the Province of Sind;
) Orissa and such ojbher areas in the Province of
Bihar and Orissd as may be specified in the
Order of His Majesty shall be separated from
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from such date as His Majesty may
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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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