Catalogue description Colonial Office: Special Commission on the Constitution of Ceylon (Donoughmore Commission): Reports and Papers

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Reference: CO 1041
Title: Colonial Office: Special Commission on the Constitution of Ceylon (Donoughmore Commission): Reports and Papers
Description:

This series contains records of the Special Commission on the Constitution of Ceylon. It consists of memoranda, representations and written and oral evidence supplied to the Commission, and a copy of the Commission's published report.
Date: 1927-1928
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Special Commission on the Constitution of Ceylon, 1927-1928
Physical description: 15 volume(s)
Publication note:

The report of the Commission was published in July 1928 as Cmd 3131.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Special Commission on the Constitution of Ceylon was appointed in August 1927 under the chairmanship of the Earl of Donoughmore to report on the working of the existing constitution in Ceylon. The terms of reference were: 'To visit Ceylon and report on the working of the existing Constitution and on any difficulties of administration which may have arisen in connection with it; to consider any proposals for the revision of the Constitution that may be put forward, and to report what, if any, amendments of the Order in Council now in force should be made.'

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