Translation.
1852. 22 May. Rangitikei District.
We have received from Mr. McLean. Five hundred pounds of money £500. This is the money that the Governors of New Zealand agreed to pay us which was written in our large paper or deed transferring land written and agreed to by ourselves and Mr. McLean at our large meeting at Whanganui on the 15th and 16th of the days of MayRangitikei Inland Boundary.
in the year 1849.Receipt for £500, last instalment.
Subsequently to the writing of the aforesaid Deed it has been agreed that the inland boundary should be altered or taken nearer and it has been decided by Mr. McLean by Mr. Park and his surveyors by Hori te Rangiao and the chiefs of the NgatirangitahiBoundaries.
of Ngatiraukawa of Whanganui and of other places that the inland boundary of the Rangitikei should be fixed at a place named Te Houhou and it goes direct from thence in the direction of Whareroa and this is to be a sure boundary for the present sale of land by the Ngatiapa.Now listen all people assembled at this meeting this is assuredly the last and final payment for our lands and the full completion of all the conditions inserted in the several papers and deeds relating to the transfer of our lands executed and subscribed to by ourselves as well as some of our dead and surviving relatives who have written and concluded the same in the years 1849, 1850, 1851 and by us at this the receipt of the fourth payment or instalment in the present year 1852.
And we shall fully unite with and protect the Europeans who are living with us on our lands whom we esteem in remembrance of our friends now dead in the event of their being at any time disturbed by the people of other tribes.
And having received this Five hundred pounds £500 of money into our hands we hereunto sign our names and marks in the presence of this assembly under this sun of the present day of the 22nd of the days of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two 1852.
Signed Donald McLean,
Land Commissioner.
Ko Kawana te
Hakeke.
Ko te Reihana.
Ko Peni.
And 64 others.
Witnesses to the payment and signatures—
(Sd.) Robert Park, Government Surveyor.
" John Rochfort, Surveyor.
" Edward Cumberfield, Survey labourer.
" James McDonell, Settler, Rangitikei.
" Thomas Scott, Settler, Rangitikei.
True Translation.
Donald McLean,
Land
Commissioner.
No. 285. Received for Registration at half-past two o'clock June 22nd, 1852. Registration.
(l.s.) Robert R. Strang, Registrar of Deeds.
A True Copy of Original Receipt, Translation, and Endorsement.
Wellington, December 14th, 1875.