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Coll 1/3 'Aden Settlement: Administration Reports 1937-38' [22r] (43/96)
The record is made up of 1 file (48 folios). It was created in 12 Jun 1939-15 May 1940. 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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ADEN, 1937
Currency.
The monetary unit is the Indian rupee (silver) and is legal
tender for any amount. The subsidiary Indian coins are:-
Silver—
Half rupee.
Quarter rupee.
Nickel—
Four anna piece.
Two anna piece.
One anna piece.
Bronze—
Single pice (£ anna).
. ° n e pie piece (i-12th anna).
Subsidiary corns are legal tender for sums not exceeding one
rupee. Indian Government currency notes are in circulation—
the denominations being Rs.5, Rs.io, Rs.50, and Rs.ioo.
OfftroThoVn 6 transf( ; r ? f T A i! en to the control of the Colonial
hn a 5 th (A ; vernment of Mia maintained a Currency Reserve
hi Ade J\ The reserve ? s 11 st00d on th e 1st April, 1037, was
allowed to remain m Aden to meet the requirements of the
Royal Air Force against payment to the Government of India
m London. The reserve was reduced to about Rs.6
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
by the
end of 1937 and will soon be exhausted. When it is exhausted
the provision of currency in Aden will be arranged through the
wnm The Governn jent, however, will take steps to see that
condition COmage and notes in circulation are kept in good
Weights and Measures.
The Imperial weights and measures are in common use, as
also are certain Indian weights. For instance, in the Post Office
inland letters are exchanged at so much per tola : foreign letters
however, are weighed by the ounce. A tola is the weight of a
freshly minted rupee, i.e., 0-4114 of an ounce. Eighty tolas =
1 seer and 40 seers = a Bombay maund (about 80 lb.). There is
however, a local maund which is only 28 lb.
XVI.—PUBLIC FINANCE AND TAXATION.
As u Urc Colony only came into existence on the 1st April,
I 937 > the figures of revenue and expenditure for the first financial
year are not yet available. The approved and revised estimates
for 1937-8 are as follows: —
Revenue.
Duties, Taxes, etc. ...
Court Fees and Government Services
Reimbursements
Posts and Telephones
Miscellaneous...
Approved
Estimates.
Rs.
931.000
91,900
325,260
261.000
55,000
Revised
Estimates.
Rs.
950.000
110.000
35 0 . 000
600.000
50,000
1,664,160
2,060,000
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- Content
The file consists of an envelope containing letters and two small booklets:
- ff 6-26, Colonial Reports, Annual, No. 1883 - Annual Report on the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Aden, 1st April - 31st December, 1937 (1939)
- the above report contains a map at f 25r, titled 'Aden Colony Boundary Plan' showing the Colony boundary and military reserved areas;
- ff 27-48, Colonial Reports, Annual, No. 1936 - Annual Report on the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Aden, 1938 (1940);
- ff 2-5, accompanying correspondence between the Colonial Office and 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 reports are both divided into the following chapter headings:
- I. Geography, Climate and History
- II. Government
- III. Population
- IV. Health
- V. Housing
- VI. Production
- VII. Commerce
- VIII. Labour
- IX. Wages and Cost of Living
- X. Education, Welfare Institutions and Recreation
- XI. Communications and Transport
- XII. Public Works
- XIII. Justice, Police and Prisons
- XIV. Legislation
- XV. Banking, Currency, and Weights and Measures
- XVI. Public Finance and Taxation
- XVII. Miscellaneous
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references found within the file by year (folio one).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (48 folios)
- Arrangement
The file is arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 an terminates at the inside back cover with 48; 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 1/3 'Aden Settlement: Administration Reports 1937-38'
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- front, front-i, 2r:48v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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