Translation.
This Deed
written on the twenty seventh 27 day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six 1856 is the consent of us the Chiefs and People of a branch of the Ngatiwhatua fully to give up our Land called Hikurangi to1856. 27 December. Manukau District.
Victoria the Queen of England and to the Kings and Queens after her.Hikurangi.
Receipt for £50 final payment.
Esquire which sum is the final payment, and we sell and make over this Land Hikurangi with all things appertaining to it to be held by Victoria the Queen of England for ever and ever.This is the final payment for our lands Paeoterangi Puotahinga and Hikurangi which has been surveyed in accordance with the provisions of a former deed written on the twenty first 21st day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty four 1854 namely "when this Land shall have been surveyed the sum of Fifty pounds £50 will be paid" which sum we now receive on this twenty seventh 27 day of December one thousand eight hundred and fifty six.
Watarauihi, and 6 other signatures,
Witness to these receipts and to the signatures to this Deed—
(Signed) Edwin B. Dickson, B.A.
C. O. Davis, Interpreter.
True Translation.
C. O. Davis.
A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation.
Wellington, September 16th, 1874.