We the undersigned original chiefs of Moroa and Tauherenikau at Wairarapa declare1873. 13 December.Moroa, Greytown.(Deed of Gift) solemnly that in or about the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty three we gave to Mr. Donald McLean for Her Majesty the Queen of England the land at Moroa shewn in the sketch in the margin and there colored red that is to say lying between land sold by Rawiri to the Queen and Manihera's and Wiremu Kingi's sale of Tauherenikau to the Queen with all its rights above and below the surface and we make this gift in consequence of the satisfaction we felt at the manner in which Mr. McLean had conducted land purchases in the vicinity and the high relative price he had paid to all of us for adjacent lands and we formerly made this gift in the presence of our tribes and with the knowledge that we are relinquishing the land for ever. But when we so gave it weFive per cents. believed that we should be entitled to Five pounds per centum of all net proceeds of land sales within the land so given to be returned as "koha" to us as such sales might occur as in the case of the Tauherenikau block.