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         (ii) the Court of the Civil Judge; and
         (iii) the Court of the Munsiff;
         (2) provision for the establishment of a District Court for each district
         or more than one district and for treating the City of Bangalore as a
         district;
         (3) provision for the establishment of a Court of a Civil Judge for
each district; or for part of a district or for more than one district;
         (4) provision for fixing and varying by the High Court with the
approval of the State Government, the number of Civil Judges and Munsiffs
to be appointed to the Court of a Civil Judge or Munsiff’s Court;
         (5) provision empowering the State Government to fix the locality of
courts in consultation with the High Court;
         (6) provision for treating the Courts of Civil Judges (Senior Division)
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in the Bombay Area, the Courts of Civil Judges in the Mysore Area; and the
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Courts of Subordinate Judges, as Courts of Civil Judges; and for treating the
Courts of Civil Judges (Junior Division) in the Bombay Area, the Courts of
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District Munsifs in the Madras Area and the Courts of Munsiffs in the other
Areas, as Munsiffs’ Courts;
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         (7) conferment of unlimited pecuniary jurisdiction on the Court of a
Civil Judge in respect of all original suits and proceedings of a civil nature;
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         (8) provision for conferment of jurisdiction on the Munsiff’s Court in
respect of all suits and proceedings of a civil nature of which the amount or
value of the subject matter does not exceed five thousand rupees and on
the recommendation of the High Court, the jurisdiction of any Munsiff’s
Court may be extended by the State Government to all original suits and
proceedings of a civil nature, the value of the subject matter of which does
not exceed ten thousand rupees;
         (9) provision for appeals from decrees and orders passed by a
Munsiff to the District Court; and transfer by the District Judge to the Court
of the Civil Judge within this jurisdiction of appeals the value of the subject
matter of which does not exceed five thousand rupees;
         (10) provision empowering the High Court to invest any Judge of a
Court of Small Causes with powers to hear appeals from such decrees and
orders of Munsiffs’ Courts as may be referred by the District Judge;
         (11) provision empowering the High Court to invest the Court of a
Civil Judge and the Court of a Munsiff with small cause powers, not
exceeding two thousand rupees in the case of a Court of a Civil Judge and
not exceeding five hundred rupees in the case of a Court of a Munsiff.
         (Published in the Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Pare IV—2-A,
dated 7th June 1962 at page. 154–155).