Enclosure in No. 7.
Deed of Conveyance of Sections 5 and 6 and 160, in the District of Takaka, by the College Governors to Her Majesty the Queen, for Native purposes.

This deed, made the first day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy, between the Governors of Nelson College, incorporated under and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the Session holden in the eighteenth and nineteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to incorporate the Governors of Nelson College," of the one part, and Her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of the other part: Whereas the said Governors are seized of or otherwise well and sufficiently entitled to the pieces or parcels of land hereinafter described: And whereas the said lands have been for some time past occupied by certain Natives of New Zealand: And whereas it has been agreed to exchange the said lands for certain waste lands of the Crown situated in the district of Amuri, which have already been granted to the said Governors, in order that the said land herein after described may be reserved for the benefit of the Natives: Now this deed witnesseth, thain suance of the said agreement, and for the purposes aforesaid, the said Governors of Nelson College do by these presents convey and assure unto Her said Majesty Queen Victoria, her sors and assigns, ali that piece or parcel of land situate in the district of Massacre Bay, in the Province of Nelson, in New Zealand, being sections numbered 5 and 6 on the plan of the said district, containing two hundred and sixty-five acres, more or less; bounded towards the South-west by sections numbered 9 and 10 on the said plan; towards the North-west by section numbered 7 on the said plan; on the North-east partly by a Native Reserve and partly by the Motupipi River; and on the South-east by the Motupipi River: and also all that other piece or parcel of land situate in the district of Massacre Bay aforesaid, containing one hundred and fifty-eight acres, more or less, being section numbered 160 on the plan of the said district; bounded towards the North-east by a reserve for hospitals and lunatic asylums; towards the East by Crown land; towards the South-west by sections numbered 162 and 163 on the said plan; and on the North-west by a road; together with the appurtenances thereunto belonging or appertaining, and which said pieces or parcels of land are more particularly delineated and described on the plan drawn in the margin of these presents, and thereon coloured pink, to hold the said pieces or parcels of land hereinbefore described, with the appurtenances, unto Her said Majesty Queen Victoria, her successors and assigns for ever.

In witness whereof the said Governors have caused their common seal to be hereunto affixed, the day and year first above written. (l.s.)

The common seal affixed in the presence of Robert Pollock, secretary to the Council of Governors.