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DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF SratE OF CANADA,
Recistrar’s BrancH, Orrawa, 8th January, 1887.
- T hereby certify the within to be a true and faithful copy of the record of the

original surrender as entered in Lib. K.M., Fol. 27.
L. A. CATELLIER,
Dep. Registrar-General of Canada.

No. 228.

Tits Inpenturr, made the ninth day of October, in the year

Deed of surrender E
from Charles Baby of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ferty, between

‘og Majesty Charles Baby, of the Town of Sandwich, in the western district of
at the Province of Upper Canada, Esquire, of the one part, and Her
Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, of the other part.

Whereas, by a certain agreement lately made by and between the said Charles
Baby, of the one part, and the Principals of the Oneida Nation, by their Agent, of the
other part, and ratified and approved of by the Chief Superintendent of Indian
Affairs in this Province, the said Charles Baby, for and in consideration of the sum
of one hundred and fifty pounds of lawful money of the Province aforesaid, did agree
to grant, bargain, sell and convey to or to the use of or in trust for them, the said
Principals of the Oneida Nation, a certain parcel or tract of land and premises,
situate, lying and being in the Township of Delaware, in the London District, and
Province aforesaid, which is hereinafter more particularly described.

And whereas in the making of the agreement for the selling and conveying of
the said land and premises as aforesaid it was desired that the said land and. pre-
mises should be conveyed to them by a deed of surrender to Her Majesty, Her heirs
and successors, in trust for them the said Oneida Nation.

And whereas the said Charles Baby did then and there agree to execute such
surrender as requested, and is now desirous of perfecting the said agreement and
executing a surrender of the said land and premises unto Her Majesty, Her heirs
and successors, as agreed upon as aforesaid.

Now this Indenture witnesseth, that the said Charles Baby, for and in considera-
tion of the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds of lawful money of the Proviace
aforesaid to him in hand paid at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents,
the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath granted, bargained, sold, delivered,
transferred, surrendered and yielded up, and by these presents doth grant, bargain,
sell, alien, transfer, surrender and yield up_unto Her Majesty, Her heirs and suc-
cessors forever, all that certain lot, pareel or tract of land lying and being in the
Township of Delaware, in the London District, in the Province aforesaid, containing
two hundred acres, be the same more or less, and known as lot number “twenty,”

in Concession CO of the said township, which said parcel or tract of land is butted
and bounded as follows, that 1s to say: Commencing in front of the said Concession
C, at the north-west angle of the said lot; then north seventy degrees, east sixty-
seven chains fifty links, more or less, to allowance for road in rear of said concession ;
then south twenty degrees, east twenty-nine chains eighty links, to the southernmost
limit of said lot, then south seventy degrees, west sixty-seven chains fifty links, more
or less, to allowance for road in front of said concession; then north twenty degrees,
west twenty-nine chains eighty links, more or less, to the place of beginning.

Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances
thereto belonging, or in anywise appertaining, and the reversion and the reversions,
remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof, and all the estate, right,
title, interest, claim and demand of him the said Charles Baby of, in, to or owt of

the same, and every part and parcel thereof.
To have and to hold the same, with the appurtenances, to Her Majesty, Her heirs

and successors, freed and discharged from all encumbrances whatsoever, in trust,
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nevertheless, to and for the use, benefit: and behoof of the said Oneida Nation, as
before mentioned, forever.
And the said Charles Baby, for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators,
doth covenant, grant and agree to and with Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors,
that he, the said Charles Baby, now is the true, lawful and rightful owner of all and
singular the said land and premises above mentioned, with the appurtenances, and
every part and parcel thereof, and now is lawfully and rightfully seized in his own
right of a good, sure, perfect, absolute and indefeasible estate of inheritance, in fee
simple, of and in the premises above mentioned and described; and further, that he,
the said Charles Baby and his heirs, and all and every other persos and persons,
and his and their heirs, having, or lawfully claiming any estate, right, title, trust
or interest of, in or to the said premises above mentioned and described, or any part
thereof, by, from or under him, them, or any or either of them, shall and will at all
times hereafter, when required by Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, make, do
and execute all and every such further and other lawful acts, conveyances and assur-
ances in the law for the better and more perfect granting, conveying, assuring, sur-
rendering and yielding up of all and singular the premises above mentioned and
described, with the appurtenances, unto Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, Her .
or their counsel shall reasonably devise, advise and require.
CHARLES BABY.
Signed, sealed and delivered |
in presence of }
Ropert MERCER,
SAMUEL GARDINER.

Upper CANADA, }
WESTERN DISTRICT.
To Wit:

Personally appeared before us, Robert Mercer and Samuel Gardiner, Esquires,
two of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in and for the Western District, Julia
Baby, wife of the within named grantor, Charles Baby, who being examined by us
apart from her husband touching her consent to be barred of her dower of and into
the lands in the deed hereunto annexed, it did appear to us that she gave the same
freely and voluntarily, without any coercion or fear of coercion on the part of her
husband or any other person whatsoever. Dated this ninth day of October, 1840.

ROBERT MERCER, J.P., W.D.
SAMUEL GARDINER, J.P., W.D.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR CANADA,
ReEGIsTRAR’S BRaNcH, Ortawa, 20th April, 1868.

I hereby certify that this Indenture has this day been entered on the records of
this office, in Lib. C. S., Folio 323.

HECTOR L. LANGEVIN,
Secretary of State and Registrar of Canada.

DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF CANADA,
Recistrar’s Brancu, Orrawa, 8th January, 1887.

I hereby certify the within to be a true and faithful copy of the record of the
original surrender to the Crown, as entered in Liber C. S., Folio 323.

L. A. CATELLIER,
Dep. Registrar-General of Canada.