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                    [0] => This series is comprised of files of land claims relating to land purchased in New Zealand before 1840.
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            [authenticityNote] => This series description was compiled as part of a project to capture the finding aids created prior to 1987 into the GAIMS system.

The original Record Group listing does not include any details regarding the dates of the cases in this series. 

A number of items are listed as missing. Item OLC1/526 is listed as missing - duplicate information appears to be held in item OLC1/521-526.
See also IA5/5 (series 8337) for material relating to James Busby's Bay of Island claims (OLC1/14-24).  
For OLC1/737 (James Busby) see also IA5/5 (series 8337): filed under original no. 310.
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This series comprises files of land claims. Each file usually contains only one claim, but in some cases a number of claims by the same claimant are grouped together on one file. As a rule, each file contains: the report of the original Commissioners which includes a summary of the claim and the Commissioners' recommendations; minutes of the hearing held before the original Commissioners and the supporting documents put forward by the claimant (such as the originals or copies of deeds of sale); and usually some correspondence with the claimant. Subsequent investigations by later Commissioners are added, and any further documentary evidence in support of the claim (such as transfer deeds) and original Crown Grants called in and cancelled. In some cases the correspondence and investigations continued for many years. 

Generally, the correspondence included in the files had originally been registered elsewhere: correspondence before the reinvestigations by Commissioner Bell in 1856 was originally registered in the Colonial Secretary's Office; later correspondence was registered in the office of the Commissioners and removed from the correspondence files in Record Group series OLC6 (series 16429) to the individual case files. 

The files are arranged numerically, the numbers being those given by Commissioner Bell (except numbers 1A to 49A which were claims investigated at a later stage). Claims are grouped as follows: 

a) 1-1049 - Old Land Claims 
b) 1050-1129 - Pre-emptive claims under the Ten Shillings an Acre Proclamation 
c) 1130-1229 - Pre-emptive claims under the Penny an Acre Proclamation 
d) 1300-1354 - Old Land Claims and Pre-emptive claims not referred to any Commissioner for investigation 
e) 1355-1375 - Claims to land by half-castes not belonging to any of the previous series 
f) Supplementary claims 1A-49A - Mostly made by half-castes and were investigated by later commissioners. 

The Old Land Claims were originally numbered in a different sequence, from 1 to 459, each separate claim (where claimants had more than one claim) being distinguished by suffixing A, B, C etc to the number. An alphabetical list of claimants has been compiled and is available at Archives New Zealand in Wellington - this list has not been captured in GLADIS. 

Typescript copies of some of these case files make up Record Group series OLC9 (series 16152).
Reports on the land claims are held in Record Group series OLC3 (series 16427).
Further papers about particular claims or claims in particular parts of the country are held in Record Group series OLC4 (series 16151).
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            [ricClassificationDescription] => Numerical, by case file number. Each file generally contains one claim, though in some cases a number of claims by the same claimant are grouped together on one file. 

The numbers were assigned by Commissioner Bell (except case numbers 1A to 49A, which were investigated by later Commissioners).  The old land claims were originally numbered in a different sequence from 1 to 459, each separate claim (where claimants had more than one claim) being suffixed by A, B, C, etc.
            [seriesRestrictionReason] => No restrictions on access to the content of the files. Where reproductions (microfilm copies or photocopies) are available, the original files are restricted for preservation reasons.  Microfilm/reproduction references are available in item descriptions.  Special handling restrictions apply to items in this series.
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