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An Epitome of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs and Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary to the Chief Protector

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary to the Chief Protector.

Transmitting Form of Special Reports on Native Land Claims. Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, 21st April, 1843.

Sir,—

It being, necessary, previous to the issue of the deeds for the lands recommended by the Commissioners to be granted upon the claims referred for their investigation and report, that every precaution should be used to insure a certain knowledge that the rights of the Natives therein have been completely extinguished, I have the honour to inform you, by the direction of the Officer Administering the Government, that with this view it has been considered expedient to require the following special reports:—

First, from, the surveyor, whether the progress of the survey has been interrupted by the Natives on the ground of ownership, and whether any claim has been preferred to him by them, or on their behalf, for any part of the land:

Secondly, from the Protector of the district, certifying that after due inquiry he is fully satisfied of the alienation of their lands by the former aboriginal owners.

To obtain the latter report the Surveyor-General has been instructed, whenever he shall receive notice from this office of His Excellency's approval of the intended survey of the lands to be granted upon any claim, to cause the enclosed form to be filled up from the Commissioners' reports and forwarded to you for the purpose of being transmitted to the Protector of the district in which the land claimed, is situate, for his report thereon.

On the receipt of this report from the Protector of the district, you will have the goodness to return the same to the office of the Surveyor-General—to accompany the final report of that officer of the completion of the survey of any lands, previous to their being proclaimed demesne lands of the Crown.

I have, &c.,

William Connell,
(For the Colonial Secretary.)

The Chief Protector of Aborigines.