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A compendium of official documents relative to native affairs in the South Island, Volume One.

No. 13. — Memorandum by the Lieutenant-Governor on Mr. Fox's Letter of the 18th September

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No. 13.
Memorandum by the Lieutenant-Governor on Mr. Fox's Letter of the 18th September.

Mr. Domett,—

Inform Mr. Mantell accordingly, by the very first opportunity, but at the same time impress strongly upon him that the maximum named by Mr. Fox is not to be the minimum, and that I rely on his using every exertion to procure the necessary cession from the Natives as economically as possible, as, under the circumstances of the whole case, the N.Z. Company have every reason to expect this, and the Natives have already been so well compensated for their claims generally that they could only anticipate the additional payments now making as an act of grace, arising out of the unsettled state in which the French claim was at the time the purchase was made by Mr. Kemp, and in satisfaction of any equitable claims upon their giving up the additional portions of the Peninsula required by the Company, not included in Mr. Kemp's purchase or in the French claim.

18th September, 1849.

E. Eyre.