Catalogue description Records of Constitutional and Other Commissions

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