Translation.
We have received on the 26th day of February in the year 1844, from the Directors
1844. 26 February.Port Nicholson. of the Company of New Zealand at London, the payment being made by
William Wakefield the agent of the said
Company Two Hundred Pounds money, a full payment,
Receipt for £200. a full satisfaction, an absolute surrender of all our Title to all our
claims in all our lands which are written in the document affixed to this, viz.,
All the places at Port Nicholson and in the neighbourhood of Port Nicholson in New
Zealand; and on the other hand the Pas, the Cultivations, the Sacred Places, and
the places Reserved will remain alone for us: and we consent ourselves to write
our names in a Land Conveying Document hereafter if asked to write them to the
Directors of the said Company of all our claims within the said Lands. The only
places left for us are those above mentioned.
[Witnesses.]
[Signatures.]
sWe hereby certify the above to be a correct
translation of the accompanying document.
George Clarke, Junior, Protr. Aborigines.
Thomas A. Forsaith,
Protector of Aborigines and Interpr.
to Commr's. Court.
[Copy of Schedule in Enclosure No. 4 was attached to
this Deed.—H. H. T.]