Translation.
1844. 26 February.Port Nichloson.We have received on the 26th of the days of February in the
year 1844 from the Directors of the New Zealand Company at London the payment
being made by William Receipt for £200. Wakefield, the agent of the said Company Two hundred Pounds money, a full
payment, a full satisfaction, an absolute surrender of all our Title to all our
claims in all our Lands which are written in the document affixed to this, vizt.,
all the places at Port Nicholson and in the neighbourhood of Port Nicholson in New
Zealand; and on the other hand the Pas, the cultivations, the Sacred Places and
the places reserved will remain alone for us: and we consent ourselves to write
our names in a Land Conveying Document hereafter if asked to write them to the
Directors of the said Company of all our claims within the said lands. The only
places left for us are those above mentioned.
[Witnesses.]
[Signatures.]
We hereby certify that the above is a correct translation of the accompanying document.George Clarke, Junior, Protector of Aborigines.
[Copy of Schedule in Enclosure No. 4 was attached to this Deed.—H. H. T.]