• Source: Financial Secretary of Ceylon

The Financial Secretary of Ceylon was an officer of the Ceylonese Government and member of the Board of Ministers. The Treasurer of Ceylon was one of six offices that held a seat in the Executive Council of Ceylon from 1809 to 1932. The post was replaced by the that of Financial Secretary in 1932, as one of three officers of state of the new Board of Ministers that replaced the Executive Council under recommendations of the Donoughmore Commission. The Financial Secretary was in turn replaced by the new office of the Minister of Finance in 1947 under the recommendations of the Soulbury Commission under the Ceylon Independence Act, 1947 and The Ceylon (Constitution and Independence) Orders in Council 1947.




Departments


General Treasury
Loan Board
Government Stores Department
Government Printing Office
Government Assessor
Income Tax Department
Customs




List of Financial Secretaries


Data based on:

John Ferguson, Ceylon in the Jubilee Year, J. Haddon and Co.,1887
Ceylon: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries and Resources, Plâté limited, 1924




See also


Governors of British Ceylon
Chief Secretary of Ceylon
Legal Secretary of Ceylon
General Officer Commanding, Ceylon
Attorney General of Sri Lanka
Auditor General of Sri Lanka




References

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• Australia
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• Legal Secretary of Ceylon
• State Council of Ceylon
• Burgher people
• Dutch Burghers
• Governors of British Ceylon
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• Ceylon in World War II