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A Compendium of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs in the South Island. Volume Two.
III. Jurisdiction and Duties of the Court
III. Jurisdiction and Duties of the Court.
The Native Lands Act, 1865.
(1.) Investigation of Titles.
| 21. | Claim to be made by Native. |
| 22. | Notice of claim and of sitting of Court thereon. |
| 23. | Court to try the claim and order a Certificate of Title or refuse to do so. |
| 24. | Two or more certificates may be ordered under one claim. |
| 25. | Land to be surveyed and marked off previously to order of certificate. |
| 26. | Form and authentication of certificate. |
| 27. | Power to Court to make interlocutory order. |
| 28. | Court may recommend to the Governor restrictions on alienability. |
| 29. | Certificate to be forwarded to Governor. |
The Native Lands Act, 1865.
(2.) Succession to Hereditaments.
| 30. | Court may ascertain proper representatives of owner dying intestate. |
| 31. | Sittings of Court to be notified. |
| 32. | Court to make order. |
| 33. | Form and authentication of order. |
| 34. | Effect of order. |
| 35. | Order to be recorded and may be registered. |
The Native Lands Act, 1865.
(3) Intertribal Boundaries.
| 36. | Tribes desiring intertribal boundaries to be defined may apply to the Court. |
| 37. | Court may inquire and decide. |
| 38. | Boundary line to be surveyed. |
| 39. | Effect of order. |
The Native Lands Act, 1865.
(4.) Ajudication generally respecting Native Land.
| 40. | Court to determine references from Supreme Court. |
| 41. | Effect of decision. |
| 42. | Claims to Native Land may be heard. |
| 43. | And certificates issued to claimant thereupon. |
| 44. | Effect of such certificate. |
| 45. | Similar jurisdiction as to succession to Native land. |