This Deed written on this Fifth day of August in the year of our Lord 1859 is a full 1859. 5 August.Auckland District. conveyance and surrender by us the chiefs and people of Ngatiwhatua whose names are hereto subscribed and witnesseth that on behalf of ourselves our relatives and descendants we have by signing this Deed under the shining sun of this day parted with and Tokapurewha. for ever transferred unto Victoria Queen of England Her Heirs the Kings and Queens who may succeed Her and Her and their assigns for ever All that piece of land situated at Tokapurewha and containing nine acres more or less as the same has been marked off 9 acres. upon the ground and as it is shewn upon the plan of the said land annexed to this Deed. The conditions upon which we surrender this land are these, that it is to be held Conditions. [For a battery.] by the Government for purposes of military defence and that in the event of the Government ceasing to require it for such purposes of military defence it shall not be disposed of to private individuals but shall revert to us. Upon which conditions we hereby voluntarily surrender the aforesaid piece of land without receiving any payment for the same, and we hereby also consent that a road one chain wide shall be made through our land at Orakei to communicate with the land ceded by us as aforesaid and the land which may be required for the formation of such road is in like manner hereby ceded by us to the Queen for ever.