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

Analysis

Analysis.

Jurisdiction as to Natives.

103.Natives not to be apprehended or imprisoned except by authority of Resident Magistrate or Chairman of Petty Sessions.
104.Native charged with larceny and confessing may be summarily convicted.
105.Native convicted of theft may be discharged upon paying four times the value of property stolen.
106.Value in certain cases to be awarded to owner of stolen property.
107.Appointment of Assessors.
108.Jurisdiction in cases between Natives.
109.Mode of hearing Native cases.
110.Judgment in Native cases.
111.Jurisdiction in cases between Native and European.
112.Distress warrants against Natives to be signed by Resident Magistrate of district where executed.
113.Resident Magistrate may delay execution against Native.
114.Payment of Assessors.
115.Chairman of Petty Seesions to exercise power of Resident Magistrate in Native cases.
116.Governor may proclaim sections specially relating to Natives to be inoperative in certain districts, and may cancel such Proclamation.

Clause 2 repeals, besides other Acts, an Ordinance to provide for the establishment of Resident Magistrate's Courts, passed by the Lieutenant-Governor and Legislative Council, (Session 7, No. 16.)

"Resident Magistrate Court Ordinance Amendment Act, 1856, No, 20;" "The Resident Magistrate's Court Act, 1858;" and Section 31 of "The Native Circuit Courts Act, 1858."

Clause 39 provides that all summonses, warrants, &c., addressed to Natives, shall be accompanied by a Maori translation.