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Treaty of Waitangi & Maori claims

Kemp Deed

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


Murihiku Deed

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.]



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