Translation.
I. E.
Featherston.
Matene te Whiwhi.
And 78 others. Heta te
Ohuka.
Tamihana. Te Rauparaha.
Signed by the within named
Isaac Earl Featherston, at
Otaki, this ninth day of December A.D. 1865, before me—
Walter Buller, Resident
Magistrate, Whanganui.
Witnesses to all signatures and marks—
James Hamlin, Interpreter, L.P.
Dt., Wellington.
Received, on behalf of the owners of the Island of Mana the within mentioned sum Receipt for £300.of Three Hundred Pounds this ninth day of December A.D. 1865.
Tamihana Te Rauparaha.
Matene te Whiwhi.
Hohepa Tamaihengia x.
Witness to signatures and payment—
W. Buller, R.M.
We who have signed our names to this Deed have agreed that Tamihana Te Tamihana and Hoheps authorized to receive and distribute payment.Rauparaha and Hohepa Tamaihengia should receive the money from the hands of I. E. Featherston Esqr. one of the Queen's Land Commissioners and they two divide the money to the people of the Ngatitoa.
A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation.
H. Hanson
Turton.Wellington,
February 4th, 1876.