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Two acts passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, 1858, relating to native affairs, namely: the Native Districts Regulation Act; and the Native Circuit Courts Act. He Ture hou, erua, i whakatakotoria e te Runanga Nui o Niu Tirani, 1858. Ara; Ko te Ture whakakoto Ture-iti ki nga Takiwa Maori, ko te Ture whakarite Kooti Maori.

I.—Institution of Native Circuit Courts

I.—Institution of Native Circuit Courts.

I. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to appoint Districts for the purposes of this Act, being Districts over which the Native title shall not for the time being have been extinguished; and any such appointment to vary or revoke.
II. Within every such District a Resident Magistrate, to be specially appointed for the purpose by the Governor, assisted by at least one Native Assessor, shall hold periodically, at convenient times and places, a Court, to be styled "The Native Circuit Court" of such District.
III. On the notification in the New Zealand Gazette of the extinction of Native Title over lands within any such District, such lands shall cease to be part of such District; nevertheless without prejudice to the enforcement of any penalty incurred, or to the completion of any proceeding commenced prior to such notification.page 10
IV. Provided that Lands granted by the Crown to any person of the Native race, or to any person or Body Politic in trust for Religious, Educational, or Charitable purposes, or in respect of any purchase made prior to the proclamation of the Queen's Sovereignty, or specially granted as homesteads to persons of European race domiciled in Native Districts, shall, where the same respectively abut upon lands over which the Native Title has not been extinguished, be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be lands over which the Native Title has not been extinguished, and may accordingly be included within any such District as aforesaid.