Coll 1/49 'Aden. Administration and control: changes consequent on Indian constitutional reforms; transfer to HMG' [132v] (269/968)
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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(?\ jn civil matters an appeal may be brought to^ His Majesty
bi Council from a judgment of the High Court given m pursuance
of this section in the following cases ^
(a) As of right, from any final judgment of the Court,
where the appeal involves, directly or indirectly, some claim,
or question respecting property or some civd right of tlm
value of ten thousand
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
or upwards and, if the pidgme
annealed from affirms the decision of the oupieme Court, t*
appeal involves some substantial question of law; and
(b) At the discretion of the High Court, from any otlier
iudmnent of the Court, whether final or interlocutory, if,
in the opinion of the Court, the question involved in the
anneal is one which, by reason of its great general or public
importance or otherwise, ought to be submitted to His
Majesty in Council for decision.
Every judgment of the High Court given on appeal under
this section, Ind every Order of His Majesty m Counei made on
appeal from any sucli judgment, may be enforced in the Colon,
jn the same manner, as nearly as may be, as if it were a judgment
of the Supreme Court.
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( 5 ) __( a ) The High Court shall, in relation to appeals under this
section, have the 'like powers as are conferred upon it by the
Indian Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, or the Indian Code of
Criminal Procedure, 1898, as amended _ prior to the appointed
day in relation to appeals from a District Court or a Court of
Session, as the case may be, in the Proving of Bombay.
(b) The fees payable to the High Court in respect of appeals
under this section shall he the fees payable from time to time in
respect of similar appeals to the High Court from the/Comts in
the Province of Bombay.
( 6 ) Notwithstanding anything in this section the Governor may,
hy law made under this Order, prescribe, or enable rules of court
to be made prescribing, the practice and procedure to be followed
in relation to any appeals under this section including (without
prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) the imposition upon
rights of appeal of conditions as to the giving of security or
otherwise.
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(7) Nothing in this section shall be taken to prejudice the riglit
of His Majestv upon the humble petition of any person aggrieved
by any judgment of the High Court, to admit his appeal there
from upon such conditions as His Majesty in Council shall think
fit to impose.
( 8 ) In this section, unless the context otherwise requires, the
expression “judgment” includes any order or decree and a
refusal to make any order.
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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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- 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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