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Coll 1/49 'Aden. Administration and control: changes consequent on Indian constitutional reforms; transfer to HMG' [‎233r] (474/968)

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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Oaths to be
taken by
Governor*
Succession
to the
Government.
•atha to be
iaken by
■ <hninistrator.
Dwers of
3 ministrator.
appointing him to be Governor to be read and published
at the seat of Government, in the presence of a Judge if
able to attend, and of such Members of the Executive
Council of the Colony as can conveniently attend, which
being done he shall then and there take before them the
Oath of Allegiance, the Oath for the due execution of the
office of Governor and the Oath for the due and impartial
administration of justice, in the forms set out in the
Schedule to this Order, which Oaths a Judge, or, if no
Judge is present, the senior Uember of the Executive
Council of the Colony then present, is hereby required to
administer*
8 * Whenever the office of the Governor is vacant,
or the Governor is absent from the Colony or is from any
cause prevented from, or incapable of acting in, the
duties of hie office, then such person or persons as may
be appointed under His Majesty’s Sign Manual and Signet,
and in case there shall be no person or persons within the
Colony so appointed, then the Senior Member of the
Executive Council then resident in the Colony and capable
of discharging the duties of Administrator, shall during
His Majesty's pleasure administer the Government of the
Colony, first taking the Oaths hereinbefore directed to
be taken by the Governor and in the manner herein
prescribed, which being done, the Administrator as
aforesaid is hereby authorised, empowered, and commanded
to do and execute during His Majesty's pleasure all
things that belong to the office of Governor according
to the tenour of this Order, and according to His
Majesty's Instructions as aforesaid, and the laws of the
Colony.
Provided

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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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