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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 60

District Appeal Committee

District Appeal Committee.

To be balloted for.

39. Sec. 1—The District Appeal Committee shall consist of twelve members, to be balloted for annually at the October District meeting from amongst the Chief Rangers and Past Chief Rangers and Secretaries of Courts in this District, whose duties shall be for the hearing of all cases of appeal, whether by any Court in this District, or any member of such Court, on account of any complaint or grievance coming within the jurisdiction of the Laws of the Auckland District: Provided always that when any case shall have been previously tried, the decision of the Committee which tried the same shall have been

Decision of Committee to be complied with.

complied with, and no new evidence shall be introduced, and the decision shall be arrived at from the depositions made before the Committee at their previous hearing; and no member who shall have sat on any Court Committee, or witness, or appellant, or defendant shall be allowed to sit on this Committee.

Appeal to be lodged with the Executive.

Sec. 2—In the event of any appeal being duly lodged with the Executive, it shall be their duty to cause a ballot to be taken of the twelve names; and the first seven drawn, if not challenged page 17 or concerned in the case, shall form a Committee (five being a quorum) to investigate and adjudicate upon such appeal. They

Have power to call for books and papers.

shall have full power to call for all papers, books, documents, or other evidence they may consider necessary for a fair and impartial investigation, and which the appellant and respondent respectively are hereby required to produce.
Section 3—In the event of more than one appeal being duly

More than one appeal lodged.

lodged another or other Committees of seven each shall be formed and constituted in all respects according to the foregoing Laws. In every case the Executive shall summon the appellant and respondent to see the ballot taken. They (the appellant and respondent) or either of them shall have the option (if they be

Nominate financial member to represent.

unable to attend) to nominate (in writing) some financial member of the Order, not being a District Officer, to represent them at the taking of the ballot. Neither appellant nor respondent, nor their representatives, shall be allowed to challenge more than three names each on the taking of any ballot. The appellant and respondent respectively shall be required to summon their witnesses, and submit the names of the same to the District Chief Ranger or the President of the Committee at the time of meeting.
Section 4—Each Appeal Committee shall submit reports (in

Reports to be in writing.

writing) of cases investigated by their respective Committees, to the District meeting immediately following such investigation. On the adoption of such report by the District meeting, the decision shall be final.
Section 5—All such Appeal Committees shall meet at least

Date of Meeting

thirty days days prior to a District meeting, and adjudicate upon such appeals as may be submitted to them.
Section 6—Each member of any Appeal Committee, together

Fees.

with the District Chief Ranger and the District Secretary, as chairman and secretary thereof, shall be entitled to the sum of 3s. for the first sitting, and a further sum of 3s. for any adjournment or subsequent sitting on the same case. All such expenses to be paid out of the costs awarded against appellant or respondent, or the District Management Fund, or either, as the Committee are hereby required to decide; but in the event of any member of such Committee failing to attend when duly summoned (at a

Failing to attend.

notice of not less than seven days), he shall be fined in the sum of 10s. without mitigation, to the District Management Fund, unless a surgeon's certificate of ill-health, or a satisfactory apology in writing, be left at the District Chambers prior to the opening of any case. In addition to the above, travelling expenses shall be allowed to each member of this Committee attending to adjudicate on any appeal, and residing at a distance from the District Chambers exceeding five miles, at the rate of first-class railway fare to and from the District Office.
Section 7—All expenses shall be chargeable to the District

Expenses.

Management Fund, and all costs or expenses awarded against either appellant or respondeat, or both, shall on recovery be paid into that fund.
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Vacancy.

Sec. 8—In the event of death, expulsion, absence from the Colony, or becoming unfinancial, of any member of this Committee, such vacancy shall be filled by the Executive appointing a brother until the District meeting next following.

Summonses to Appeal Committees.

Sec. 9—The District Secretary shall, after the taking of the ballot, summon each member of those Appeal Committees whose names have been drawn for the hearing of the respective cases.

Committee Meetings.

Sec. 10—All such Committees to meet at such time and on such days as they may be convened by the Executive.