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Maori Deeds of Old Private Land Purchases in New Zealand, From the Year 1815 to 1840, with Pre-Emptive and Other Claims

[Translation.]

[Translation.]

Know all Men who see this Book that We Paerimu Chief of the Uringutu, Kahukoti 1840. 2 July.Auckland District. also Chief of the Nga Ti Pawa have sold and alienated for ever to Mr. Dalziel that piece of land situate in the entrance of the river Waitemata and also of Wangamakau which goes to Otahuhu for him either to cultivate, or sell or otherwise for ever. These are Omaru. the Boundaries of the said piece of land, the commencement at the fresh water river at Alex. Dalziel. Omaru, to the Komiti, to the Papa of the Matera, to Wakamuhu, to Waiparera, to Boundaries. [1,000 acres.] Okaho, where it ends: and the Boundary on the Shore goes straight from Okaho to the fresh water river of Omaru. These are the payments we have received for the said Receipt. Land, viz. One Double Barrelled Gun Twelve Muskets, Ono Cask Powder Twenty-five Blankets One Cask Tobacco Six Hoes Six Hatchets Six Axes Six Iron Pots Four Coats Four Gown Pieces Six Shirts Six Trowsers Four Waistcoats Six Combs One Bag Shot. These are all. But we received on the Twenty-third of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, Four Casks Powder, Eight Blankets as an. earnest. See our Names and Marks written on the second day of July in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and Forty.

[Witnesses.]

[Signatures.]

True translation.

Henry T. Kemp.