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An Epitome of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs and Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand

Enclosure

Enclosure.

Copy of an Additional Clause ordered by His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief to be inserted in the Native Conveyances of Land to the Crown.

"It is further agreed to by the Queen of England on her part that there shall be paid for the following purposes—that is to say, for the founding of schools, in which persons of our race may be taught; for the construction of hospitals, in which persons of our race may be tended; for the payment of medical assistance for us; for the construction of mills for us; for annuities for our chiefs, or for other purposes of a like nature, in which Natives of this country have an interest,—ten per cent., or ten pounds out of every hundred pounds, out of any moneys from time to time received for that land when it is re-sold."

A true copy.

Reader Wood,
Deputy Surveyor-General.

Surveyor-General's Office, 3rd April 1854.