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IOR/L/PS/10/447/1
- Record Id:
- 041-000545400
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000287.0x000065
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057582487.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/447/1
- Title:
- File 959/1914 Pt 1 ‘Abyssinia Order-in-Council 1913. Question of trial or imprisonment of persons at Aden or Bombay.’
- Scope & Content:
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This part contains correspondence and other papers relating to Articles 37 and 56 of the Abyssinia Order in Council 1913, which concern persons being sent for trial or imprisonment to Aden or Bombay.
It includes papers relating to the following issues:
- The question of whether or not expenses incurred by the Government of India in connection with the trial and imprisonment of persons other than of British Indian nationality at Aden and Bombay would be recoverable from Imperial revenues.
- The Government of India’s proposal that European British subjects charged with offences punishable by death under the Indian penal code should be sent to Bombay, and not Aden, for trial.
- A proposed official Guajarati translation of the Order-in-Council, and the question of whether or not the cost of this should be met by the Government of India.
- Arrangements for the trial and imprisonment at Aden of persons to whom the Order applied.
- The proposal of the Government of India that during the duration of the First World War the Consul-General at Abyssinia should be instructed to refrain from sending cases for trial at Aden.
- The detention at Aden (or Bombay) of British subjects sentenced by the Abyssinian Mixed Court, and the issue of whether or not the Government of India should meet the cost of this.
- The issue of whether or not the executions of British Somalis condemned to death by courts in Abyssinia should be carried out at Aden.
- The proposed amendment of the Abyssinia-Order-in-Council.
The correspondence is mostly between the following:
- The India Office and the Foreign Office.
- The India Office and the Government of India Foreign and Political Department.
- The Government of India Foreign and Political Department and the Political Department of the Government of Bombay.
- The Foreign Office and HM Chargé d’Affaires and Acting Consul-General, Addis Ababa (Guy Henry Bullock).
This part also includes India Office internal correspondence, India Office minute papers and reference papers, copies of the Abyssinia Order in Council 1913, and proceedings and judgements of the Court of HM Consul-General in Abyssinia.
This part includes a few folios in French.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000545399
041-000545400 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files
IOR/L/PS/10/447 : File 959/1914 Pt 1-2 'Abyssinia O. in C.'
IOR/L/PS/10/447/1 : File 959/1914 Pt 1 ‘Abyssinia Order-in-Council 1913. Question of trial or imprisonment of persons at Aden or Bombay.’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0449]/040-000545399[0001]/041-000545400
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (436 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100057582487.0x000002
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1914
- End Date:
- 1929
- Date Range:
- 10 Mar 1914-27 Jun 1929
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Former External References:
- P 959/1914 Pt 1
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)