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History of Government and Laws

 

  • Preface
  • Part 1 
    • Introduction
    • Discovery and Settlement
    • Recognition and the Beginning of a System of Government
  • Part 2 
    • Removal to Tahiti
    • Return to Pitcairn 
  • Part 3 
    • Joshua Hill and the Pitcairn "Commonwealth"
  • Part 4 
    • Promulgation of the 1838 Constitution and Code of Laws 
  • Part 5 
    • Removal to Norfolk Island
    • The Beginnings of Modern Pitcairn 
  • Part 6 
    • Shipwrecks and Their Aftermath
    • Degeneration and Disorder
  • Part 7 
    • Conversion
    • Parliamentary Government and a New Code of Laws
    • The Western Pacific High Commission 
  • Part 8 
    • The Simons Constitution and Laws of 1904
  • Part 9 
    • The Island Court 
  • Part 10 
    • Neill, Maude and the 1940 Regulations 
  • Part 11 
    • ​​​​​​​The Pitcairn Order in Council, 1952
  • Part 12 
    • ​​​​​​​Administrative Control from the South Pacific Office in Suva
  • Part 13 
    • ​​​​​​​Lands and Estates
  • Part 14 
    • ​​​​​​​Social Security
    • The End of an Epoch
  • Part 15 
    • ​​​​​​​The Other Islands
  • Footnotes (Complete list. Each section's footnotes appear at the bottom of the page.)
  • Bibliography & References

 

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