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Coll 1/49 'Aden. Administration and control: changes consequent on Indian constitutional reforms; transfer to HMG' [‎356r] (720/968)

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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Clause 270. — {Aden.)
4.38 p.m.
Mr. DONNER: I beg to move, in page
154, line 38, after “date,” to insert:
“not later than the first day of January,
nineteen hundred and thirty-six.’’
The object of this Amendment is to
fix a definite date for the Order-in-
Council separating Aden from British
India. I submit that the very reasons
which have urged the Government to take
this step of separating Aden from British
India are reasons for accepting this
Amendment. It is obviously desirable,
once the decision has been taken, that
it should be put into effect as soon as
possible. The only reason why we have
not proposed to insert words to the effect
that it should come into force on the day
on which this Bill becomes an Act is
because we take into account the ad
ministrative difficulties, but if the
Government consider that the proposed
date is too early, perhaps they will sug
gest some alternative date, possibly 1st
April next year. Clearly it ig desitable
that some date should be specified and
that steps should be taken to see that
this policy is translated into action and
no allowed to remain as a mere pious
aspiration. I suggest that there would
be some danger in that course. I do not
know what is the policy of the Socialist
party in this respect, but it is just con
ceivable that they might form a Govern
ment before this Order-in-Council is
passed and the Socialist party can, I
think, usually be trusted to take an anti
imperial line. I suggest respectfully,
therefore, that there is every reason to
secure that this separation should take
place by a given date.
- 4.40 p.m.
hon^-p 8 -' ! 1 0ARE: 1 cannot follow my
' rien d into the remote and obscure
hap U pen 0 of? r ° PheSy ^ may or ma y not
happen after some problematic Election
Let me, however, assure him that h ?!
our mtention, and I believe^ is an in-
ention shared by the hon. Member for
lamehouse (M r . AttIee) . and
Ade" 'hoi rlTplS ? 0 ° kS) } that
Federation. It i s 0U! . f t P f: ce ,: ' el ' ore
'administrative details can^ 10 * lf the
“ d 1 see HO reason why they 6 sho'uH
or aTTrt’ tha * shouW ‘^e pllceTt
arrangement o^fie^dministrative^haiis
; s e°mg to take, hut, as I say ,t.l o
intention to bring the change ih„ " ”
tion at or about the tame time J “o'
vmcial autonomy. pro '
4.42 p.m.
A " E " EEEE ■ I had never any doubt
until the” IOU ! d b £ e se P ara i' e d from India
mt.1 the speeoh of t)he hon a
West Ishngton (Mr. Donner) but I gath"
that he is putting it forward as fpart
of some special Imperialistic poHcy
thought tbT + n 1SCUSS - i0nS 1 have alwa ys
„. n ° \ tllat the position was that Aden
s not a part of India and therefore
obvmusly ought to be separated froL
India I suggest that the hon. Member
V _ remarks has done an extremely
IndJT 10 !? r y enCOUragin S everybody in
Adp f° be ie T e tIiat the separation of
Aden from India is due to some special
policy on our part and is not being done
re y for purposes of convenience and
better government. In fact on this
atter the hon. Member seems to be
taking a sort of inverted Congress view.
Mr. DONNER ; On the assurance of my
right hon. Friend the Secretary for State
as to his intention in this matter, I beg
o ask leave to withdraw the*Amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
Clause ordered to stand part of the
Bill.

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Content

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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