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end acknowledged that he signed, sealed and delivered the same for the uses and
purposes therein mentioned. 4
SAMUEL DAYTC

New Brunswick,
York County. \

No. 25781, registered in Book F, 3, pages 260, 261 and 262, this 13th
Mareh, A.D. 1876. |
A. D. YER

No. 207,

We, the undersigned Chief and Principal Men of the Band of Indians owning —
the tract of land known as Reserve No. 3, and described in the treaty effected on the |
9th day of September, in the year of one Lord one thousand eight hundred and
fifty, with the Chiefs and Principal Men of the Ojibway Tribe of Indians, inhabiting —
and claiming the eastern and northern shores of Lake Huron, by the omourable I
William Benjamin Robinson, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain —
and Ireland, as “commencing at Point Grondine, then westward, two miles in front
by six miles inland, so as to include the small lake Nepinassing,” in the District of
Algoma, in the jae eaiwes of Ontario, and Dominion of Canada, and laid down on a
plan by John Stoughton Dennis, Provincial Land Surveyor, dated 12th May, 1852,
on file in the head office of Indian Affairs at Ottawa; being a majority of the male
members of the said band of the full age of twenty-one years habitually residing on
or near the reserve in question, duly assembled at a council of the said Band called
for the purpose, and according to the rules of the said Band, and held in presence
of an officer duly authorized by the Honourable the Superintendent-General of Indian
Affairs to attend such council, do hereby consent and agree to surrender, and by
this Instrument do surrender to Her Gracious Majesty aforesaid, Her heirs and
successors, in trust, to be sold for the joint benefit of our Band aforesaid, on such
terms and conditions as to Her said Majesty’s Government of Canada shall seem
proper, the whole of the merchantable timber on our said reserve, the entire proceeds
of the sale of the said timber to be invested for our sole joint benefit and for the
benefit of our descendants for all time to come in such manner as to the said Govern-
ment of Canada shall seem to be most conducive to the interests of our said Band.

And we, the said Chief and Principal Men of the said Band, do hereby, on
behalf of our people and for ourselves, ratify whatever the said Government of this
Dominion may do, or cause to be lawfully done, in connection with the sale and
disposal of the said timber.

In Wirness WuHeEREOF, we, the undersigned Chief and Principal Men of the Band
aforesaid and as representing the entire said Band, have hereunto set our hands and
affixed our seals at Grumbling Point, in the said District of Algoma, this thirty-first
day of May, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.

Signed, sealed and delivered) ae his ae
in presence of RAEI TL: [48.]
JAMES C. PHIPPS, his
Visiting Supt. J. Barre. AHMUTCHEWAIKEZHIK x [L.S.]
P. R. pDELAMORANDIERE, a" mark.
1s
verpreter.
Interpreter SHEBAUGHESICK x [L.8.]
mark.
his
KAIKAIKOUCE | x [L.8.]
mark.
his
AMAB SHEBAUGHESICK xX [L.8.]
mark.
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his

GALEGAIGUESE xX [L.8.]

mark.

; his
SAHQUAKEZHIK xX [L.8.]

mark.

ct or ALGOMA.
te a,7 To Wit:
sae 4 Lan ames CO. Phipps, of Manitowaningue, in the said District, Visiting Superin-
. _tendent, duly authorized by the Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs to attend
council of the Band of Indians referred to in the annexed surrender of the tim-
ber on the Point Grondine Indian Reserve, and Oneweigonce, Chief of the said Band
y OF Indians, do, and each for himself doth, hereby certify under oath that the annexed
- surrender was duly assented to by a majority of the male members of the said Band
of the full age of twenty-one years, who habitually reside at or near the said reserve,
ata meeting or council of the said Band summoned according to their rules for that
purpose, and held at Point Grondine, in the District, on the thirty-first day of May,
in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, and at the

same time duly executed by us and the Principal Men of the said Band.
Certified and sworn to before me at Kil-]

larney, in the District of Algoma, ;
this aia, day of August, mea ee ae

and the same being first read over and| ONEWEIGONCE, x

explained. | ‘mark.

Waurer McCrea,
Judge, D.A.
ie
No. 208.

Know ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, the undersigned Chiefs of the Mo-
hawk Band of Indians of the Bay of Quinté, resident on our reserve in the Township
of Tyendinaga, in the County of Hastings, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion
of Canada, for and acting on behalt of the whole people of our said Band in council
assembled :

[Do hereby remise, release, surrender, quit claim and yield up unto Our Sovereign
Lady the Queen, Her heirs and successors forever, all and singular that certain par-
cel or tract of land and premises situate, lying and being in the Village of Deseronto,
in the County of Hastings and Province of Ontario, containing by admeasurement
thirty-five acres and three roods, be the same more or less, and being composed of
all that part of township lot number thirty-eight (38) in the third concession (or

Concession A) of the Mohawk Indian Reserve, in the Township of Tyendinaga, south

of the “Slash Road,” not heretofore eranted to the late John Culbertson, and being

shown on the registered plan of the Village of Deseronto as Blocks “K” and “ M.”
To have and to hold the same unto Her said Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and

successors forever.
Tn trust to sell and convey the sam

terms as the Government of the Dominion of

our welfare and that of our people.»
| And upon the further condition that all moneys received from the sale thereof

shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management, be placed
at interest, and that the interest money accruing from such investment shall be paid

annually or semi-annually to us and our descendants forever.

e to such person or persons and upon such
Canada may deem most conducive to