The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 10
Par. 103
Par. 103.
The Land Claims Courts were not cited by me "as instances of the satisfactory working of a jurisdiction over Native Territorial Rights." They have no such jurisdiction. They were referred to as shewing that the Colonial Legislature had again and again created Courts of Inquiry possessing powers and means for ascertaining facts, which Mr. Parris did not possess.