Maori Deeds of Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand: Volume Two

The Payments

The Payments

The payments for the whole of these lands of ours, the boundaries of which have been

Total price, £2,500.

read aloud by Mr. McLean who has also conducted all the matters relative thereto, are as follows, Two thousand five hundred pounds £2500, one thousand pounds of this sum

Receipt for £1,000, first instalment.

£1000 has this day that is to say this fifteenth 15th day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine 1849 been paid to us. Five hundred pounds £500 are to be given to us on the fifteenth 15th day of May one thousand eight hundred and fifty 1850. Five hundred pounds £500 are to be given to us on the fifteenth 15th day of May one thousand eight hundred and fifty one 1851. The last payment of five hundred pounds £500 to be made on the fifteenth 15th day of May one thousand eight hundred and fifty two 1852.

That is all. This is the complete conclusion of the payment for our lands. And in testimony of our final consent in the presence of this assembly to all the conditions of this Deed of sale which have just been recited and read aloud to us by Mr. McLean we have subscribed our names and marks.

Also in testimony of the consent of Mr. McLean on behalf of the Governors of New Zealand to all the conditions of this Deed of sale of land Mr. McLean has also subscribed his name.

Donald McLean.

Nikorima Huri x his mark.
Kawana Hunia te Pakeke x his mark. Awira te Ore x his mark.
And 194 others.

Witnesses to signature—

Alfred Wyatt, Major, 65th Regt.