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No. 60.
MR. DADHABHOY NUSSERWANJEE to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 17th March, 1924.) TELEGRAM.
INDIANS in public meeting assembled at Colombo on 18th passed unanimously following Resolution:-
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Pray their request be granted that inclusion of only English, Sinhalese and Tamil as conferring literacy qualification for franchise excluding other Indian languages particularly Guzerati Malayalam deprives benefit of franchise to large number Indians. This meeting requests Secretary of State for Colonies be pleased provide literacy in any Indian language shall be sufficient qualification for franchise.-DADHABHOY NUSSERWANJEE, Chairman.
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No. 61.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 31st March, 1924.)
Ceylon, 10th March, 1924. WITH reference to paragraph 7 of the Duke of Devonshire's Miscellaneous despatch of the 22nd January, 1924, with which he transmitted copies of the Ceylon (Legislative Council) Order in Council, 1923, I have the honour to confirm my telegram of the 16th February† in which I intimated that the Order in Council had been published locally on the 16th February. I now enclose copies of the proclamationt issued by me, which appeared in a special issue of the Government Gazette on the date mentioned.
2. The actual date of the establishment of the new Council (Article IV of the Order) will be communicated to you in due course.
I have, &c..
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3. The new Order in Council provides for the appointment of seven nominated official members, or twelve official members in all, taking into account the five ex-officio members (who remain the same as at present, viz. :-The Officer Commanding the Troops, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, the Controller of Revenue, and the Treasurer), and I propose to nominate the following officials to fill the seven seats referred to :--
Mr. J. Strachan, Director of Public Works.
Mr. L. Macrae, Director of Education.
Mr. F. A. Stockdale, Director of Agriculture.
Dr. G. J. Rutherford, Principal Civil Medical Officer.
Mr. W. T. Southorn, Principal Collector of Customs.
Mr. M. T. Akbar, Acting Solicitor-General.
Mr. W. L. Kindersley, Government Agent, Central Province.
It will be seen that, of the nominated official members in the present Council, Mr. Dutton, General Manager of the Railway, and Mr. Wait, Controller of Indian Immigrant Labour, will cease to be members on the dissolution of the present Legislative Council.
4. I have intentionally retained the Solicitor-General and the Government Agent of the Central Province on the revised list. It is very likely that, as at the present time, the unofficial members of the reformed Council will consist, in a large measure, of members of the legal profession, and it therefore seems desirable to have the Solicitor-General, as well as the Attorney-General, in Council.
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5. In the event of your approving my present proposals, I shall be glad if will in due course submit the appointments suggested in paragraph 3 above for His Majesty's approval.
I have, &c.,
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Governor, &c.
No. 63.
W. H. MANNING,
Governor, &c.
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No. 62.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 31st March, 1924.) [Answered by No. 66.]
(Confidential.)
Ceylon, 10th March, 1994.
I HAVE the honour to address you on the subject of the nomination of official members of the reformed Legislative Council under the Order in Council dated 19th December last.
2. As you are aware, the nominated official members of the present Legislative
Council are nine in number, viz. :—
Dr. G. J. Rutherford, Principal Civil Medical Officer.
Mr. F. A. Stockdale, Director of Agriculture.
Mr. L. Macrae, Director of Education.
Mr. M. T. Akbar, Acting Solicitor General.
Mr. T. E. Dutton, General Manager of the Railway.
Mr. W. L. Kindersley, Government Agent of the Central Province.
Mr. J. Strachan, Director of Public Works.
Mr. W. T. Southorn, Principal Collector of Customs.
Mr. W. E. Wait, Controller of Indian Immigrant Labour.
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† No. 50.
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THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. [Answered by No. 74.]
Downing Street, 2nd April, 1924.
I have the honour to transmit to you for your consideration the accompanying copy of a telegram* from Mr. Dadhabhoy Nusserwanjee conveying the text of a resolution passed at a public meeting of Indians in Colombo on the subject of the literacy qualification for the franchise,
2. I should be glad if you would remind the senders of this message of the proper channel of communication of such matters, and would furnish me with a report on the Resolution.
3. Subject to any objections which you may have to offer in this connexion, the request is not one which I should be disposed to entertain. persons involved must be comparatively small; and I see no justification for The number of introducing additional complications into the procedure for the registration of voters in favour of a limited class.
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No. 64.
I have, &c.,
J. H. THOMAS.
THE CEYLON INDIAN ELECTORATE ASSOCIATION to THE SECRETARY
OF STATE.
(Received 15th April, 1924.)
The Ceylon Indian Electorate Association,
RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR,
Ridgway Buildings, P.O. Box 187.
Colombo, 21st March, 1924.
On the 17th instant the following cable was sent to you:-[See No. 60.] The Indian Community in Ceylon is composed of different sections speaking different languages, chief among them being Tamil, Guzerati and Malayalam. The
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