Translation.
This Deed written on this seventeenth 17 day of November in the year of our
Lord
1851. 17 November. one thousand eight hundred and fifty one 1851, is a paper of the full
consent of us the
Hawke's Bay. chiefs and the people of Ngatikahungunu at this meeting assembled whose
names are hereunto subscribed on behalf of ourselves our relations and all our
descendants who
Ahuriri. shall be born after us entirely to give up our land the plan of which is
hereunto attached unto Victoria the Queen of England and to the Kings and Queens
her successors for ever, and the Queen of England on her part agrees to pay us
for the said land the sum of one thousand five hundred pounds £1500 of which
monies one thousand pounds
Receipt for | £1,000 |
Balance due | 500 |
| £1,500 |
£1000 has been paid into our hands on this day by
Donald McLean, Esquire. The five hundred pounds £500
will be paid to us in the days of November in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty two 1852 as a last instalment for that land for
ever.