Aden Affairs and Other Matters

Title:

Aden Affairs and Other Matters

Date:

1846/1847

Description:

Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 4 of 1847, dated 15 January 1847. The enclosures are dated 9 November-15 January 1847.The item comprises resolutions on letters from the Secret Committee received by the HC [Honourable Company’s] steamer Aucklandon 2 January 1847, and subsequent correspondence between: Secretary to the Government, Bombay; the Secretary to the Government of India; and the Post-Master General, Bombay. Also included is a minute of the President and Governor and the members in Council, Bombay.The papers cover the following matters:A document entitled ‘Heads of Instructions for the Police Magistrate at…’ (not included), forwarded by the Secret Committee, requesting the authorities in India to ascertain if the guidance can be made applicable to AdenAn enquiry, by the Secret Committee, as to whether the authorities in India have received any communication from the King of Johanna [Anjouan] regarding his claim to the Island of Mayotte now occupied by FranceConfirmation by the Post-Master General that he has received from England forty spare lids for the iron mail boxes (passing between England and India and through France), that he intends to request a further supply, and requesting instructions concerning the disposal of 155 old lids.Physical description: 1 item (14 folios)

Language:

English

Type:

Archival item

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Overseas mail
Police
Territorial disputes

Geographic region:

Aden
Johanna

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100156754476.0x000010_ar
81055/vdc_100156754476.0x000010_en
IOR/L/PS/5/449, ff 39-52
IOR/L/PS/5/449, ff 39-52

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