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Translation.
1854. 6 July.I have received this sixth day of July in the year one thousand
eight hundred Whaingaroa. and fifty four (1854) the sum of Forty (£40) pounds once told as a payment
for all Receipt for £40 my claims to land in the Whaingaroa District both for those which have been
sold to Takarei's claims the Queen and those which have not and this shall be my last demand upon
those claims for ever.
And on the receipt of those monies I hereby acknowledge these lands to be the property of the Queen with their Timber Streams Minerals and all thereunto appertaining and in testimony thereof we hereunto affix our names and marks.
Na Takerei te rau
Na te Aho
Na te Karaka Tukapea
Witnesses—
John P. Russell, Settler, Wairarapa
H. T. Kemp, J.P.
A True Copy of Original-Receipt and Translation.
Wellington August. 3rd 1875.