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Records of Constitutional and Other Commissions
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Division within CO
Records of commissions relating to the investigation of a range of issues, many of them constitutional.Commissions investigating general colonial matters: Colonial Higher Education Commission (Asquith Commission), 1943-1944, CO 958Commission to...
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- Division within CO
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of Constitutional and Other Commissions
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1911-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of commissions relating to the investigation of a range of issues, many of them constitutional.
Commissions investigating general colonial matters:
- Colonial Higher Education Commission (Asquith Commission), 1943-1944, CO 958
- Commission to enquire into the Service, Salary Scales, etc. of Colonial Government Staff, 1945-1948, CO 963
Commissions relating to particular colonies:
- British Guiana Sugar Industry Commission (Venn Commission), 1948-1949, CO 946
- British Guiana Constitutional Commission, 1950-1951, CO 951
- British Guiana Constitutional Commission (Robertson Commission), 1954, CO 891
- Commission of Inquiry into Disturbances in British Guiana in February 1962 (Wynn Parry Commission), CO 887
- Special Commission on the Constitution of Ceylon (Donoughmore Commission), 1927-1928, CO 1041
- East Africa Economic and Fiscal Commission (Raisman Commission), 1960, CO 893
- East Africa Royal Commission (Dow Commission), 1963-1951, CO 892
- Commission of enquiry into disturbances in the Gold Coast (Watson Commission), 1948, CO 964
- Kenya Coastal Strip Commission (Robertson Commission), 1961, CO 894
- Kenya Constituencies Delimitation Commission: (Foster-Sutton Commission), 1962, CO 895
- Kenya Northern Frontier District Commission, 1962, CO 896
- Kenya Regional Boundaries Commission (Foster-Sutton Commission), 1962, CO 897
- Federation of Malaya Constitutional Commission (Reid Commission), 1956, CO 889
- Malta Royal Commission, 1912, CO 945
- Mauritius Electoral Boundary Commission, 1957, CO 890
- Commission on the Constitution of Mauritius (Banwell Commission), 1965-1966, CO 961
- Commission on Minority Groups in Nigeria (Willink Commission), 1957-1958, CO 957
- Commission of Enquiry in North Borneo and Sarawak Regarding Malaysian Federation (Cobbold Commission), 1962, CO 947
- Commission on the Constitution of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the Monckton Commission, 1960, CO 960
- West India Royal Commission, 1938-1939, CO 950
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- 23 series
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C455/
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