PETITION OF RICHARD CHILMAN.

Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives, 1856 Session I

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

PETITION OF RICHARD CHILMAN.

Presented to the House of Representatives 24-th July, 1856, and ordered to be Printed.

To the Honorable the House of Representatives of New Zealand, in Session ASSEMBLED. The Petition of the Undersigned, Richard Chilman, of the Province of New Plymouth, Sheweth, — Agent " fi% "' Cre SeC ' io " ofl ™ d NewP1 J"" 0 " th th « That your Petitioner was dispossessed by the Natives of thirty acres of the said land. e*l JP lat r/ a C , ertai " P lece of lantJ at the Henui was granted to your Petitioner bv the Asent of tie New Zealand Company in lieu of the land of which your petitioner was dispossessed-^nd at in consideration of the said land being separated from your petitioner's dwelling house and involving him m great expense from the additional fencing required, your petitioner- expressly Eui River 6 knd t0 be § ranted to should include a swampy Jiece "on the banksTS flnrv ? urve y° r of the New Zealand Company pointed out to your petitioner the boundary of his land, including the piece in question. tivp pf hat subse l u f ltl y. a Native named Witana claimed a portion of this land adjoining a NaWitana admit, thS riTl pr ?X ented a . tena "t of y° ur petitioner's, from occupying the said land. W itana admits that the land in question did not form part of the original Reserve, but that it was subsequently given to him by Mr. Commissioner McLean. ' i , ™ at °" the 3( J th January last your petitioner wrote to the Sub-Commissioner of Native vennpfj nf Z Subj6Ct ' and that on the 28th March last > y our petitioner, at the Commissioner 6 McLean" 11 " furnlshed the particulars of his claim for the information of Mr. N«w Pl That I°u r P etitione r , h as since been informed that the Commissioner of Crown Lands in has he,KtLg""» S " id bl " J™» ,J? Ur pe f tioner therefore prays that your Honorable House will be pleased to cause an infound coiept m h lnt °, l "rcumstances, in order that, should your petitioner's allegations be correct, he may be put into possession of the land in question. And your petitioner as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c. New Plymouth, RICHARD CHILMAN. 17th July, 1856.

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