[Translation.]

We have received this day, the thirteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, the sum of two thousand pounds (£2,000), received by us from Mr, McLean, this being part of the sum as spoken of in our Assembly, and consent, in Port Nicholson, on the tenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to give up and make over our land at the Waipounamu to the Queen of England for ever. The terms as agreed to by us, and specified in the deed of sale, of our full and final giving up and making over all our land on that Island,—that is, all our claims to Wairau and Hoiere, and Whakapuaka, and Taitapu, and Arahura, and the Waipounamu, including all our lands which we have not sold in former times, as agreed to betweeen us and Mr. McLean, in the deed of our full consent, as entered into at Port Nicholson, which deed specified that we and the tribes living on this land should receive the sum of five hundred pounds (£500) page 312each year until we had thus received the amount of three thousand pounds (£3,000), this sum being the amount remaining after we had received the first instalment. We now ask for the sum of two thousand pounds (£2,000) to be given to us now, and that the yearly instalment of five hundred pounds (£500) should be set aside, because our aged chiefs are dying, and we are wishful that they should partake together with us of the money given to us for our land while they are yet alive.

This land we will fully give up and make over to the Europeans when the homesteads for us and our children are laid out; also, we, the chiefs and men whose names are hereunto affixed, do hereby faithfully agree to satisfy and prevent the demands of all Natives whatsoever who may hereafter claim the land which we have, in the presence of this assembly, and also at the meeting in Port Nicholson, fully given up and made over to the Queen for ever; and in testimony of our fully consenting to all the terms specified in this deed, we hereunto affix our names and marks at Porirua on this the day on which we receive this money.