Translation.
1844. 26 February.Port Nicholson.We have received on the twenty-sixth of the days of February in
the year 1844 from the Directors of the Company of New Zealand at London, the
payment being made by
Receipt for £30.
William Wakefield the Agent of the
said Company Thirty Pounds Money a full payment, 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, vizt., 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.]
We hereby certify that the above is a correct translation of the
accompanying document.
George Clarke, Junior,
Protector of Aborigines.
[Copy of Schedule in
Enclosure No. 4 was attached to this Deed.—H. H. T.]