A Compendium of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs in the South Island. Volume Two.

Analysis

I.—Institution of Native Circuit Courts.

1.	Governor in Council may appoint Districts.
2.	Circuit Courts to be held.
3.	Lands over which Native Title extinguished, to cease to be part of Districts.
4.	What Lands to be deemed subject to Native Title.

II.—Criminal Jurisdiction and procedure.

5.	Jurisdiction.
6.	Formation of Jury.
7.	Challenges.
8.	Juror's Declaration and Verdict.
9.	Functions of Jury.
10.	Functions of Court in Jury cases.
11.	Questions of fact, when determinable, by Court.
12.	No appeals.

III.—Civil Jurisdiction and Procedure.

13.	Jurisdiction.
14.	Trial by Jury may be granted.
15.	Formation of Jury.
16.	Challenges.
17.	Juror's Declaration and Verdict.
18.	Judgment to be according to real Equity.
19.	Judgment to be final, subject to the grant of a New Trial or Re-hearing.
20.	Execution against Chattels.
21.	Execution against persons of Defendant.
22.	Court may summon Witnesses and compel production of documents.
23.	Special Jurisdiction in European cases arising under "The Native Districts Regulation Act, 1858."

IV.—Jurisdiction and Procedure Generally.

24.	What members of Court must concur in judgment.
25.	Court may deliberate with Jurors.
26.	False evidence, Perjury.
27.	Distress Warrants, where to run.
28.	Warrants Convictions and Summonses by whom to be signed.
29.	Contempt of Court.
30.	Governor in Council may regulate practice of Court.

V.—Appointment and Jurisdiction of Native Assessors.

31.	Appointment of Assessors.
32.	Assessors, Court.
33.	Powers of Assessors' Court.
34.	Distress Warrants, where to run.

VI.—Constabulary.

35.	Governor may appoint Constables.
36.	Governor may appoint Lock-up Houses.
37.	Confinement at a Lock-up House may be ordered in lieu of committal to Gaol.
38.	Governor may appoint Keepers of Look-up Houses.
39.	Governor in Council may regulate Lock-up Houses.

VII.—Appropriation of Fees and Fines

40.	Governor in Council to appropriate Fees, and Fines for benefit of Districts.

VII.—Construction of Terms, &c.