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Lord Francis Scott papers: Sections D-E, 1931-1934

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Shelfmark: Micr. Afr. 578, reel 6

Section D: Executive Council, continued.

File No. IX, 1935 (45 items): Executive Council. Includes:

  1. précis for Executive Council Members and the Council itself
  2. circulars to Members of Executive Council including memo; report on the Economy, the Maragua-Tana Electric Power Scheme, and land matters
  3. minutes of meetings of the Executive Council; Report of the Land and Agricultural Bank of Kenya acting as agents for the government in the administration of the Agricultural Advance Scheme
  4. District Annual Estimates
  5. miscellaneous.

File No. X, Jan 1936-Dec 1936 (12 items): Executive Council. Includes:

  1. minutes of meetings of the Executive Council
  2. circulars to Members of the Executive Council on road grants, bills, and rules, and on a proposed grant to assist the education of Peter Koinange in America
  3. District Annual Estimates.

File No. XI, 1925-1931 (15 items). Includes:

  1. a number of précis with respect to the Executive Council, ordinances
  2. circulars to Members of the Executive Council, mainly bills and ordinances
  3. memorandum on land.

File No. XII, Sep 1939-Dec 1939 (26 items): Minutes of Special and Routine meetings of the Executive Council.

File No. XIV, Dec 1937-May 1941 (40 items): Papers under discussion. Includes:

  1. minutes of meetings of the Executive Council
  2. notes for Kenya Tariff Committee and on policy towards indigenous communities (by Cavendish Bentinck)
  3. memoranda on salaries and conditions of service in East Africa
  4. circulars to Members of the Executive Council on death duties and settlement
  5. précis for the Executive Council
  6. recommendations for improving the Intelligence System for the Kenya Colony
  7. correspondence on soil conservation.

File No. V, 1933 (11 items): Native Land Tenure. Includes:

  1. extract from Mr Fazan's Report on relations between the government and Local Native Council
  2. report by a committee appointed to consider Mr Fazan's report referred to above
  3. Mr Fazan's comments on the report produced by the above committee appointed to consider his report
  4. notes
  5. circulars to all Members of the Executive Council, mainly dealing with matters relating to indigenous land
  6. correspondence - a circular
  7. memorandum on the nature of functions and control vested in the Native Lands Trust Board over lands in Native Reserves
  8. recommendations on Native Administration.

Section E: Expenditure Advisory Committee.

File No. I, Jul 1932-Dec 1932. (74 items). Includes:

  1. records of the minutes of the lst-3rd, 5th-47th, 49th, 51st-71st, and 73rd-74th meetings of the Expenditure Advisory Committee
  2. agricultural draft estimates (one item).

File No. II, 1933 (two items): Draft Report by the Committee appointed to examine the organisation of every government department and to recommend as a basis for government expenditure.

File No. III, 1932-1933 (six items): Budget. Includes:

  1. Treasury Memorandum on the 1933 budgetary position
  2. Addendum No. 2 to the Treasury Memorandum on the 1933 budgetary position
  3. unchecked expenditure sheet
  4. financial appreciation and correspondence.

File No. IV, Jul 1932-Aug 1932 (eight items): Memoranda. Includes:

  1. memoranda by Kenya Asian Civil Servants and on the cost of services of institutions not solely connected with the Kenya Colony
  2. notes on the possible economics in public expenditure, and on the proposal to abolish the post of Provincial Commissioner, save two travelling inspectors
  3. correspondence.

File No. V, Aug 1932-Oct 1932. (nine items): Legal Department. Includes:

  1. correspondence on various administrative and financial matters
  2. expenditure sheets
  3. recommendation - interim.

File No. VI, Jul 1932-Oct 1932 (three items): Correspondence on departmental estimates and the appointment of Lord Francis Scott to the Expenditure Advisory Committee.

Dates

  • Creation: 1931-1934

Extent

1 item

Language of Materials

  • English

Conditions Governing Access

This item is available on the open shelves at the Weston Library.

Shelfmark

Micr. Afr. 578, reel 6

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