IOR/V/10/571/5

Annual administration report of the Aden Residency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in the administration of the Settlement of Aden and the Island of Perim during the financial year 1926-27. The report was printed at the Government of India Press, Delhi, in 1928.

The report is divided into the following sections, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:

• Letter from the Acting Political Resident, Aden, to the Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay, dated 1 September 1927, submitting the report (f 185), and including: Change in Office
• ‘CHAPTER II. GENERAL AND POLITICAL.’ (f 185), consisting of: General; Administrative Machinery
• ‘CHAPTER III. ADMINISTRATION OF LAND.’ (f 185)
• ‘CHAPTER IV. PROTECTION.’ (ff 185-186), consisting of: Legislation; Land Police; Cases taken up by the Police and their results; Conduct of the police; Harbour Police; Deportation of vagrants; Criminal Justice; Cases tried by the Magistrates and their results; Cases tried by Sessions Court; Appeals; Revisional proceedings; Lunatics [people experiencing mental health problems]; Extradition; Inquests; Marine Cases; Civil Justice; Suits dealt with; Execution of decrees; Appeals; Revisions; Administration of Estates; Certificates of heirship, etc.; Receipts and expenditure; Workmen’s compensation; Rent Controller; Prisons; Registration; Bills of exchange; Municipal Administration; Marine
• ‘CHAPTER V. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.’ (ff 187-188), consisting of: Weather and crops; Wages and labour; Prices and Principal grains; Forest and Horticulture; Trade and manufacture; Perim Pearl Fishery; Public Works; Post Office
• ‘CHAPTER VI. REVENUE AND FINANCE.’ (ff 188-189), consisting of: Receipts and Payments; Local Funds; Currency Notes; Sovereigns; Supply Bills; Cash Remittance; the Temporary Currency Chest; Small silver; Nickel coins; Income-tax; Stamps; Abkari [department dealing with fees and duties on alcohol and cannabis]; Opium; Salt; Customs; Non-dangerous petroleum; Dangerous petroleum; Drugs; Explosives; Transhipment; Carbide of calcium; Arms
• ‘CHAPTER VII. MEDICAL.’ (ff 190-191), consisting of: Births and deaths; Hospitals and Dispensaries; Health Department; Vaccinations; Small-pox; Port Health Department
• ‘CHAPTER VIII. EDUCATION.’ (ff 191-192), consisting of: Schools for Males; Institutions for females; Special Institutions
• ‘CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS.’ (f 192), consisting of: Press and Newspaper; Library; Public Conveyance; Public Roads; Lighting; Aden Railways
• General remarks (f 192).

The remainder of the item (ff 193-224) consists of appendices to the report.