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Coll 1/49 'Aden. Administration and control: changes consequent on Indian constitutional reforms; transfer to HMG' [407r] (822/968)
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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407
Aden Laws.
1932.1
OF
6 . (i) A notification issued under section 5, sub-section
(2), may direct that any powers or duties vested in separate
officers may be consolidated and vested in, a-nd discharged by,
a single officer.
(2) Where by such a notification appellate powers are con-
jolidated and vested in a single officer, the period of limitation
for the consolidated appeal shall be the longest period pro
vided in the case of an appeal to any of the officers whose
powers are so consolidated.
7. Nothing in this Regulation shall affect any proceeding
which at the commencement thereof is pending in respect of
any of the territory mentioned in Schedule A, and every such
proceeding shall be continued as if this Regulation had not
been passed:
Provided that all proceedings which at the commencement
of this Regulation are pending before the Resident and Com-
mander-in-Chief or any other authority within the aforesaid
territory shall be transferred to, and disposed of by, such
authorities in the Province of Aden as the Chief Commissioner
may, by notification in the Aden Gazette, direct.
8 . The Governor General in Council may, by notification
in the Gazette of India, extend, with such restrictions and
modifications as he thinks fit, to the Province of Aden or any
part thereof any enactment which is in force in any part of
British India at the date of such notification,
9. The Aden Laws Regulation, 1891, is hereby repealed.
Vesting of
powers of
separate
officers in
single officer.
Pending
proceedings.
Power to
extend
enactments
in force in
other parts of
British India
with modifica
tions and
restrictions.
Repeal.
SCHEDULE A.
[See section 3.)
The Province of Aden.
The Settlement of Aden and such of its dependencies for
the time being, inclusive of the villages of Sheikh Othman,
Imad and Hiswa, the Island of Perim and Little Aden as were
formerly administered by the
Government of Bombay
From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions.
.
SCHEDULE B.
3
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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
- Physical characteristics
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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