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Aden Affairs [‎244v] (46/79)

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The record is made up of 1 item (40 folios). It was created in 20 May 1839-4 Jul 1839. 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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Folios 223-240 chiefly comprise correspondence and minutes of senior legal, financial and administrative officials of the Government in Bombay [Mumbai], and the Secretary to the Government of India, with the Governor-General. The main subjects covered are:

Folios 241-261 comprise three reports by Haines to the Secretary to the Government, Bombay, 9 and 11 June, regarding the administration of Aden. His reports cover:

  • The system of law and justice practiced at Aden prior to it becoming a British possession, including ‘Paper A’ entitled ‘Punishment according to Mahomedan Law’ (f 249)
  • New arrangements for currency and customs duties, including ‘Paper B’ detailing former (up to May 1839) and proposed rates of import and export duty charged on sea and land (interior) goods including transit duties (ff 249-250)
  • Merchant shipping activity on the peninsula coast
  • The general health of the troops
  • Measures undertaken by Major Bailie during Haines’s absence
  • Haines’s requests for an assistant, a customs accountant from Bombay, and a boat and crew under the Agent’s charge
  • The chain of mountains forming a boundary line with Egyptian possessions in the peninsula and the potential implications for viable British trade and commerce through the port of Aden, as well as the potential threat to British security
  • The Agent’s proceedings with the Sultan of Lahedge [Lahej] and the various chiefs and sheiks [shaikhs] of the vicinity since his arrival on 20 May 1839, including the cultivation of relationships; arrangement of stipends; exchanges of gifts; and assurance that the British have no plans to march on Lahedge
  • The Agent’s suggestion concerning the employment of mounted camel bedwins [bedouins] to police or patrol the plains adjacent to interior.
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Aden Affairs [‎244v] (46/79), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 222-261, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100108178311.0x000060> [accessed 31 October 2024]

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