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THE INDIAN STATUTORY COMMISSION.
(Previous
Reference: Cabinet 36 (28). Con- clusion 7.)
Lord
14. The Cabinet had before them a Memorandum by the Secretary of State for India (Paper C.P.- 231 (28)) in regard to a proposal by the Viceroy
to amend the Warrant of the Indian Statutory
Commission so as to authorise the Commission to
co-opt 7 persons who may have been recommended by the Indian Legislature to be associated with ther throughout their Inquiry, and to direct these 7 persons to write and sign a Report to
the King
thus giving a different status to
the Committee which it had always been intended
that the Indian Legislature should set up.
Birkenhead's Memorandum covered correspondence
on the subject, in the course of which the Viceroy had in effect appealed to the Cabinet to
consider favourably his proposal, which had already been rejected by the Secretary of State
in a telegram dated June 20th which had been
circulated to the Cabinet. The Secretary of State
asked the Cabinet to approve a draft telegram
to the Viceroy which was also attached to his
Memorandum, giving reasons for rejecting the
proposal.
After a statement by the Secretary of State for India, the Cabinet approved the terms of the draft telegram attached to Paper C.P.-251 (28)).
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