Deed Receipts—No. 85.
Hotukiwi and Hotungaio Block, Hauraki District.
1854. 21 June.
Hauraki District.
Kua riro
mai i a matou inaianei i tenei ra i te (21) rua tekau ma tahi o nga ra o HuneHotukiwi And Hotungaio
i te tau o to tatou Ariki kotahi mano e waru rau a rima tekau ma wha (1854) E rima tekau pauna moni (£50) hei utu mo tetahi whenua o matou kei Hauraki tona ingoa koReceipt for £50.
Hotukiwi ko Hotungaio.Boundaries.
haere mai te Aratakahi ka haere mai Hotungaio ka makere ki Waihou ka haere tonu i te awa o Hauraki tutaki noa ki te Totara te rohe timatanga.Na ka tukua rawatia atu tenei whenua e matou ki a Wikitoria to Kuini o Ingarani ki nga Kingi Kuini ranei o muri iho i a ia me ona rakau me ona kowhatu me ona aha me ona aha ake tonu atu.
No te rironga mai o enei moni koia ka tuhia iho o matou ingoa me o matou tohu.
Hauauru
x tona tohu.
Rawiri Hauauru.
Hamiora.
Koinake
x tona tohu.
Kai Titiro—
John White,
Interpreter.
John P. Russell, Settler,
H. T. Kemp, J.P.
True Copy of Original Deed.
H. T. Kemp
Acting Chief
Commissioner.
Auckland
,October. 30th
, 1855.Translation.
We have received
on the 21 day of June in the year of Our Lord 1854 the sum of1854. 21 June.
Hotukiwi.
£50 in payment for certain land of ours at Hauraki called Hotukiwi and Hotungaio.Receipt for £50.
to Hotukiwi thence to Aratakahi thence to Hotungaio thence to Waihou thence alongBoundaries.
the river up Hauraki to Te Totara the commencing point.Now we entirely give up this land to Victoria the Queen of England and to the kings and Queens who may succeed Her, together with its trees its rocks and every thing belonging to it for ever.
For the receipt of this money we hereunto subscribe our names and make our marks.
[Witnesses.]
[Signatures.]
Correct Translation.
T. E. Young,
Translator, Native Department.
A True Transript of Certified Copy of Original Receipt.
Wellington, February. 10th, 1876.