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[[File:Transjordan memorandum approval at the Council of the League of Nations, 16 September 1922.jpg|thumb|Transjordan memorandum approval at the Council of the League of Nations, 16 September 1922]]
The memorandum began by quoting Article 25 of the Mandate. Then it said "In pursuance of the provisions of this article, His Majesty's Government invite the Council to pass the following resolution: The following provisions of the Mandate for Palestine are not applicable to the territory known as Transjordan, which comprises all territory lying to the east of a line drawn from a point two miles west of the town of Akaba on the Gulf of that name up the centre of the Wady Araba, Dead Sea and River Jordan to its junction with the River Yarmuk: thence up the centre of that river to the Syrian frontier." Then it listed articles 4, 6, 13, 14, 22, 23, and parts of the Preamble and Articles 2, 7 and 11, including the articles of the Mandate concerning a
From that point onwards, Britain administered the part west of the Jordan as Palestine, and the part east of the Jordan as Transjordan.<ref name= "UN">[https://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/2FCA2C68106F11AB05256BCF007BF3CB 12 August 1922] Britain is given the Mandate of the League of Nations to Administer Palestine.</ref> Technically they remained one mandate, but most official documents referred to them as if they were two separate mandates. In May 1923 Transjordan was granted internal [[self-government]] with Abdullah as ruler and [[St. John Philby|Harry St. John Philby]] as chief representative.<ref>Avi Shlaim (2007) p. 14.</ref>
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