Translation.
We have received on the 26th day of February in the year 1844, from the Directors
1844. 26 February. Port Nicholson.
of the Company of New Zealand at London, the payment being made by William Wakefield the agent of the said Company Two Hundred Pounds money, a full payment,Receipt for £200.
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, viz., 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.]
sWe hereby certify the above to be a correct translation of the accompanying document.
George Clarke, Junior, Protr. Aborigines.
Thomas A. Forsaith,
Protector of Aborigines and Interpr.
to Commr's. Court.