No. 27.
The Civil Secretary, Auckland, to Mr. Commissioner McLean.

In order that no doubt may exist as to the legality of your proceedings in the purchase of lands for the Crown from the Aboriginal Natives of this Colony, His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has been pleased to appoint you, by the instrument which I have now the honor to enclose, to be a Commissioner to treat with the Native chiefs of New Zealand for cession of such lands as may be required from time to time by the Crown.

His Excellency gladly avails himself of this opportunity of testifying to you the high sense he continues to entertain of the ability, judgment, and discretion with which you have invariably performed these and all other duties which you have been called upon to fulfil whilst in the employment of the Local Government.