IOR/L/PS/12/1451

The file contains correspondence between the Aden Resident (later Chief Commissioner, then Governor), the Government of India Foreign and Political Department, the Admiralty, and the India Office Political Department, regarding:

• the position of the Resident (and later Governor) of Aden in the Table of Precedence, and the number of gun salutes merited;
• the transfer of Aden to the Colonial Office, and the re-grading of its Naval, Military and Air Force Officers, plus raising the salute for the Governor and Commander-in-Chief to 17 guns;
• the entitlement of the Resident Advisor at Mukalla to a gun salute;
• the 1937 Treaty with the Sultan of Shihr and Mukalla [Shaikh Ṣāliḥ bin Ghālib Al Qu'ayṭī], and the number of salutes due to him;
• the grant in 1940 of a salute of nine guns to the Kathiri Sultan of Seiyun;
• the 1947 extension of the salute "His Highness" to all rulers in the Aden Protectorate, their lawful wives and widows, with salutes of nine guns.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio one).