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Coll 1/49 'Aden. Administration and control: changes consequent on Indian constitutional reforms; transfer to HMG' [27r] (58/968)
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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favourable consideration will be given by that Body to the
claims ol the Aden salt industry and to the representations
that have been made on its behalf.
Aden is now on the threshold of a new period in its
development. During the past hundred years it has grown
steadily under British rule, and has been established as an
important commercial centre for the transit and transhipment
of goods to and from neighbouring countries. Its trade has
grown on the foundation of free imports, on the basis of which
the energy and enterprise of its merchants and business men,
fostered by the wise and progressive policy of its Port
Administration, have built up a. solid structure of mercantile an
commercial prosperity. At the same time Aden is a place of
primary strategic value to the Empire, and its geographical
position on the great trade route between Eruope and the East,
and its comparative proximity to the oil fields in Iran, have
enabled it to become one of the greatest oil fuelling ports.
These should be permanent factors that will ensure
the continuance of its importance in the future, and it must be
our tasn to do all that we can to facilitate and promote its
prosperity and the welfare of its inhabitants. For this
purpose I hope to be able to rely on that cordial co-operation
ana mutual goodwill of all races, communities ana classes that
have been a happy characteristic of Aden in the past, and I
look to the two bocal Bodies to assist the new Administration
in the development of services of public utility and social
improvement. Among these the advancement of local education,
to which the Executive Committee of the Aden Settlement have
lately
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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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- Coll 1/49 'Aden. Administration and control: changes consequent on Indian constitutional reforms; transfer to HMG'
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- 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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