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areas and of the new British Mandated area, and also to under
take the financial and other enquiries for which the Royal Com
mission recommended that a Financial Commission should be
appointed. The functions of this new body will be to act as a
technical Commission, that is to say, its functions will be con
fined to ascertaining facts and to considering in detail the
practical possibilities of a scheme of partition.
6. The terms of reference of the technical Commission will be
as follows:—
^ “ Taking into account the plan of partition outlined in
Part III of the Report of the Royal Commission, but with
full liberty to suggest modifications of that plan, including
variation of the areas recommended for retention under
British Mandate,
And taking into account any representations of the com
munities in Palestine and Trans-Jordan—
(i) to recommend boundaries for the proposed Arab
and Jewish areas and the enclaves to be retained per
manently or temporarily under British Mandate which
will—
(а) afford a reasonable prospect of the eventual
establishment, with adequate security, of self-sup
porting Arab and Jewish States;
(б) necessitate the inclusion of the fewest pos
sible Arabs and Arab enterprises in the Jewish
area and vice versa; and
(c) enable His Majesty's Government to carry
out the Mandatory responsibilities the assumption
of which is recommended in the Report of the
Royal Commission, including the obligations im
posed by Article 28 of the Mandate as regards the
^ Holy Places;
(ii) to examine and report on the economic and
^ financial questions involved in partition upon which
decisions will require to be taken, including—
(a) the allocation so far as may be necessary
between the various areas of the public assets
and public debt of Palestine and other ‘ financial
obligations legitimately incurred by the Adminis
tration of Palestine during the period of the
Mandate ’ referred to in Article 28 thereof;
(b) means to ensure that the financial obliga
tions referred to above will be fully honoured in
accordance with Article 28 of the Mandate;
(c) the administration of the railways, ports,
postal, telegraph and telephone services;
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