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The [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate]] administration in Jerusalem only ever covered the area west of the Jordan, while the area east of the Jordan was administered by the British representative in Ma'an, Captain [[Alec Kirkbride|Alex Kirkbride]]<ref>Avi Shlaim (2007) p 11</ref> until the arrival in November 1920 of [[Abdullah I of Jordan|Abdullah bin al-Hussein]], the future [[Emir]]. Following [[Franco-Syrian War|the expulsion of Faisal bin Hussein]] from Syria by the French in July 1920, and the subsequent [[Cairo Conference (1921)|Cairo Conference, March 1921]] they appointed Hussein ''Emir of Transjordan'', while assuring that no Jews would be allowed to settle in Transjordan.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ATQQ0FMS1FQC&pg=PA348 ''The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951''], p. 348. William Roger Louis, Clarendon Press, 1984</ref>
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[[File:British Government memoranda regarding Article 25 of the Palestine Mandate with respect to Transjordan, March 1921.jpg|thumb|left|British Government proposal to include Transjordan within the Palestine Mandate via what became "Article 25"]]
Article 25 of the Mandate for Palestine allowed for the exclusion of Transjordan from unspecified provisions of the Mandate. On 16 September 1922, [[Arthur Balfour|Lord Balfour]], representing the United Kingdom, reminded the Council of the League of Nations of Article 25 of the Mandate for Palestine (which had been previously approved but had not yet come into effect). He then told the council that the British government now proposed to carry out this article, as had always been intended by the League of Nations and the British government. He then presented a memorandum for approval.<ref name=LoN0>''League of Nations Official Journal'', Nov. 1922, pp. 1188–1189.</ref>
==Description of the memorandum==
===Borders===
[[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 territory of Transjordan was defined as:
<blockquote>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.<blockquote/>
===Exclusions and application of the Mandate===
The memorandum listed as exclusions 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 Jewish national home. It concluded with:<ref name=LoN>''League of Nations Official Journal'', Nov. 1922, pp. 1390–1391.</ref>
<blockquote>In the application of the Mandate to Transjordan, the action which, in Palestine, is taken by the Administration of the latter country will be taken by the Administration of Transjordan under the general supervision of the Mandatory. His Majesty's Government accept full responsibility as Mandatory for Transjordan, and undertake that such provision as may be made for the administration of that territory in accordance with Article 25 of the Mandate shall be in no way inconsistent with those provisions of the Mandate which are not by this resolution declared inapplicable.<blockquote/>
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] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131125014738/http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/2FCA2C68106F11AB05256BCF007BF3CB |date=25 November 2013 }} 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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