Charles, Baron de Thierry, shall be Sovereign Chief over his own territories, and shall exercise all rights and prerogatives of an independent Chief within their limits.

No neighbouring Chief or people of his tribe shall be molested in person or in property, nor compelled to lend, cede, give, barter, or sell anything in his possession.

No New Zealander on the Baron de Thierry's properties shall be deprived of land or dwelling, but shall ever be protected in the same, unless guilty of some heinous crime or of open mutiny; nor then shall be removed, without trial by a mixed jury.

No New Zealander shall be compelled to work for a white man, unless in punishment for crime.

No native tribe, Government, foreign State or power shall exercise jurisdiction within the Baron de Thierry's territory.

No one shall be molested in the free exercise of any religion. But no nunneries or monastries shall be permitted within the Baron de Thierry's lands.

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If any white man marry a native woman, he shall be bound to treat her in all respects as he would a white woman.

No gambling is to be allowed.

There shall be no distinction of colour within the Baron de Thierry's territories.