Translation.
1854. 14 July.
We have received
from Mr. McLean this fourteenth day of July in the year 1854 theWhaingaroa.
sum of Fifty Pounds (£50) once told as a payment for all our claims to land atReceipt for £50
Whaingaroa which we now for ever give up and transfer to the Queen of England for ever with its timber and all thereunto appertaining. In testimony of our receipt ofEpiha's claims
these Fifty pounds and of our consent to the particulars of this deed we hereunto affix our names and marks.
Epiha Putini
Hetaraka
Wetere Kauae
Narama Karaka
Witnesses—
Sd. Archd. A. McInnes, Clerk, L.P. Dept.
Sd. H. T. Kemp
A True Copy of Original-Receipt and Translation.
Wellington August. 3rd 1875.