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Treaty of Waitangi & Maori claims
12 June 1848
Know all men. We the Chiefs
and people of the tribe called the "Ngaitahu" who have
signed our names & made our marks to this Deed on this 12th
day of June 1848, do consent to surrender entirely & for ever
to William Wakefield the Agent of the New Zealand Company in London,
that is to say to the Directors of the same, the whole of the
lands situate on the line of Coast commencing at "Kaiapoi"
recently sold by the "Ngatitoa" & the boundary of
the Nelson Block continuing from thence until it reaches Otakou,
joining & following up the boundary line of the land sold
to Mr Symonds; striking inland from this (The East Coast) until
it reaches the range of mountains called "Kaihiku" &
from thence in a straight line until it terminates in a point
in the West Coast called "Wakatipu-Waitai" or Milford
Haven: the boundaries & size of the land sold are more particularly
described in the Map which has been made of the same (the condition
of, or understanding of this sale is this) that our places of
residence & plantations are to [be] left for our own use,
for the use of our Children, & to those who may follow after
us, & when the lands shall be properly surveyed hereafter,
we leave to the Government the power & discretion of making
us additional Reserves of land, it is understood however that
the land itself with these small exceptions becomes the entire
property of the white people for ever.
We receive as payment Two Thousand Pounds (2000) to be paid to
us in four Instalments, that is to say, we have this day received
500, & we are to receive three other Instalments of 500 each
making a total of 2000. In token whereof we have signed our names
& made our marks at Akaroa on the 12th day of June 1848.
Signed
Here follow Forty Signatures
Witnesses signed
True translation H. Tacy Kemp
7 August,1853
Let all the Nations know. We
the chiefs and all the people of all the lands lying within the
boundaries hereunder written, derived through our ancestors from
whom it descended to us, the plan whereof is hereunto annexed,
have written our names and marks as the act of consent of us,
for ourselves, for our relations, for our families, for our heirs
now living, and our descendants who shall be born after us, entirely
to give up all those our lands which have been negotiated for,
the boundaries of which have been described, and the plan whereof
is annexed to this deed of conveyance, to Her Majesty the Queen
of Great Britain, her heirs and successors for ever, as a lasting
possession for her or for the Europeans to whom Her Majesty, or
rather his Excellency the Governor, shall consent that it shall
be given.
And whereas we have agreed entirely to give up our land within
the boundaries hereunder written: Walter Mantell, the Commissioner
for extinguishing Native Claims (by virtue of the authority given
to him by His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief to arrange and
determine the price to be paid for these lands), agrees that he
will pay us the sum of two thousand pounds sterling, the manner
of payment to be as follows:- The money shall be divided into
two portions: In the first instalment there shall be one thousand
pounds, which shall have been paid to us at Otakou when all the
people shall have assembled. The second instalment of one thousand
pounds shall be paid at Awaroa in the month in which the money
arrives. The whole of the moneys of these payments being added
together, they shall amount to the sum of two thousand pounds,
as agreed upon above.
Now these are the boundaries of the land which have been alienated:
The boundary commences at Milford Haven (the name given to that
place in Mr. Kemp's deed is Wakatipu, but by the Maoris it is
called Piopiotahi), thence to Kaihiku; thence to Toitata, strictly
following the old boundary line of Messrs. Kemp and Symonds, and
by the coast from Milford Haven round to Tokata, with Tauraka
Rarotoka, Motupiu, and all the islands lying adjacent to the shore
(excepting the Ruapuke group), and all the lands within those
boundaries, with the anchorages and landing places, with the rivers,
the lakes, the woods, and the bush, with all things whatsoever
within those places, and in all things lying thereupon. A more
accurate description and representation of the land is given in
the plan hereunto annexed.
All the lands, and all other things above enumerated, and which
lie within the boundaries above recited, have been entirely surrendered
to Her Majesty the Queen for ever and ever.
But those portions of land which have been set apart by Mr. Mantell,
and surveyed by C. Kettle Esq., J.P., Government Surveyor, at
Tuturau, Omaui, Oue, Aparima, Oraka, Kawakaputuputa [sic], and,
Ouetoto, marked with the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 and coloured,
yellow, are for ourselves as lasting possessions for us and for
our children for ever. The only portions for ourselves are those
just named. We also agree that the portions which have been reserved
for us shall not be sold without the consent of His Excellency
the Governor.
And if His Excellency wishes at any future time to cause a road
to be made through the land reserved for us, we agree to give
up some portions thereof without any payment being made, that
the roads which he thinks necessary may be properly laid off.
And in testimony of our true and unreserved assent to all the
conditions of this deed, which has been read aloud to us, we have
signed our names and marks; and in testimony of the consent of
Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, Walter Mantell, Commissioner
for the extinguishment of Native Claims, hereunto signed his name.
Our names and marks were signed to this deed on the seventeenth
of the days of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three,
at Dunedin.
[Here follow the signatures.]