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Alt Ref No	PN/I/736-772
Title	The Welsh Judicature - papers relating to the movement to abolish the Court of Great Sessions and assimilate the Welsh judicial system to that of England
Description	Include correspondence with the Law Commissioners; replies to a questionnaire regarding the merits and defects of the Welsh judicature; a reference to the memorial presented by the southern countries of Wales favouring the proposed reform.
Date	1822-1831
AdminHistory	The courts were finally abolished in 1830 by the Act of 11 George IV and 1 William IV c. 70, and with them went the office of Chancellor and Chamberlain of North Wales, held by the Marquess of Anglesey since 1822 (see 737) and to which a few of the papers refer.

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