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employment will be given to him, for which he will be paid, until lie can raise produce from his own land. Let him remain at that place until land shall be given to him to reside on permanently as his own. Every man who does this will not require arms to protect himself; he will be subject to the Queen's law, and that law will give him protection—the same protection as it gives to the pakeha ; no one will bo allowed to molest him in person with impunity, for the law will punish the evil-doer. To each chief who accepts these terms the land will be given more than to the common men, and to every man who accepts them sufficient land to live on and cultivate, to provide for the wants of himself, his wife and his children. For the land thus given to him, every man shall have a Crown Grant, so that the law afford him the same protection for his land as it does to the pakeha. Military and other settlers will be placed throughout Waikato, so that the law may be upheld, peace preserved, and the welldisposed of both races protected. No man who gives in his submission upon the terms set forth in this proclamation will be made a prisoner, or otherwise punished in person for what he has already done, except he has committed murder. Murderers will not be forgiven. "When they are discovered, they will be tried by the law, and, if found guilty, punished. This proclamation will be in force until the Ist clay of July, 1861, and it will not be open to any man to claim the benefit of it unless he gives up his arms before that day. Witness my hand and seal, at Government House, Auckland, this day of April, ISG-1. Other Maoris who have been fight ing against the Queen's troops, but are now desirous to live in peace, will be permitted to do so upon the like terms as those offered to the Chiefs and Tribes of Waikato. Note. —On the 30th April, the Governor wrote G. Guet at the foot of the translation of the Maori of this document. No. 0. MEMORANDUM by the Governor as to proposed Terms to Rebel Native*. The Governor having signed the Proclamation to be issued to the Natives now in arms, in the manner ultimately agreed to by his Responsible Advisers, thinks it right to state that in signing it he has done so without approving of the principle upon which the provisions are drawn, which require the Natives to bring in and give up their arms and ammunition, and that he thinks the Government, in proclaiming to the Natives of all parts of the Island who may do so, that they will be protected in person and property, in the same manner as the Europeans are protected, has undertaken to do more than it may be capable of performing. The Governor has always desired to see the Government, having conquered the Waikato District, proclaim exactly what regulation! it intended to establish in that district, encouraging those of its former inhabitants who may bo well disposed to return and live there in peace and security, under regulations framed with an evident view to their future welfare, as well as to that of the European population which is to be located there, such a plan would be in strict fulfilment of the legislation of the General Assembly during its last session. As additional districts were required for settlement they would be proclaimed in liko manner, and the law then pronounces the penalty for all those engaged iv the rebellion, that they shall receive no compensation for any of their lands which the Government may take possession of for tho purposes of settlement in such districts. The Governor would, amongst other things, require of all Natives who returned to reside in such districts that they should neither carry or possess arms without having a license to do so, and that they should reside in such localities as might be approved by the Government, letting it also be understood that all such people as might bring their arms with them, would establish an additional claim upon the consideration of the Government, when the question of their ultimate location came to be considered. In this manner the Governor believes that there would have been no difficulty in getting all the welldisposed Natives of the Waikato, Thames, and other neighbouring districts to return at once to their allegiance, in the manner many of Ihem are now doing, and will probably continue to do. Tho Proclamation about to be issued cannot bo read alone, it must be considered with the previous instructions of the Government upon the same subject. These provide penalties for those who come in without arms and ammunition. The Proclamation only provides for the case of those who give their guns up. It is known there are Natives without guns, who want to come in. Such people are now forced to remain with the rebels, and to continue to be dangerous characters. Various feuds exist between the Native Tribes. The Government are now supplying some of these people, who are friendly, with arms and ammunition, or are repairing their arms. It seems unlikely that whilst this is done, those opposed to them will come in and give their arms up, whilst their hereditary enemies, embittered against them by recent events, are permitted to retain their arms and ammunition. The Governor cannot say that he thinks the Government would be able in all cases to protect those who gave up their arms against the attacks of others who were allowed to retain them. Only to pardon those who come in witli guns and ammunition in their hands will, the Governor fears, be regarded as a declaration of lasting war against those who do not comply ivith the terms of the Proclamation. It is his belief, having regard to its other provisions about land, that its probable effect in that case will be to spread ultimately the war over the whole of New Zealand, to draw many other tribes into it, to endanger other settlements which we have no sufficient force to protect, and to prolong it almost indefinitely. In fact the Governor does not sco where it is to stop. As long as it was a question of rendering Auckland and the Waikato countrysafe, and filling these up, and of protecting and filling up the country between New Plymouth and Whanganui, ho saw what was intended ; now, he does not fee tho ends the Government propose to gain. He fears they will endanger that which

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