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PROVINUIAL REGISTRAR’S OFFICE,
Toronto, 28th March, 1876.

I hereby certify the within to be a true and faithful copy of the record of the
original patent, as entered in Lib. C. W., Folio 71.
JOHN F. C. USHER,
Deputy Registrar of the Province of Ontario.

No. 49.

Know ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, John Sunday, Jacob Sunday, Jacob
Pazhegezhick, James Sahgahnahquottwabe, Jacob Pahtewun and James Nahwahquas-
kum, Sachems and Chief Warriors of the Mississagua Tribe of Indians, of Kingston
and the Bay of Quinté, now settled in the Township of Alnwick, in the District of
Neweastle, in the Province of Upper Canada, in consideration of the trust and con-
fidence we repose in Her Majesty Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland, do
hereby surrender and yield up to Her said Majesty, Her heirs and successors, all that
tract of land situate in the Midland District, and long known as Wahboose Island,
to hold the same to Her said Majesty, Her heirs and successors, forever, the said
island containing six hundred acres, be the same more or less. And we do hereby make
this surrender to Her Majesty for the purpose of enabling Her said Majesty to sell
and dispose of the said island for the highest price that can be had for the same, for
our benefit and advantage. And we do hereby declare our wish and desire that. the
money arising from the sale of the said island should be invested in good and safe
Government or other securities at legal interest, which interest to be paid to us from

time to time as we may require it.
Ix Witxess WHEREOF, we, the said Sachems and Principal Warriors aforesaid
have hereunto set our hands and seals this fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight

hundred and thirty-eight.

Signed, sealed and delivered in Joun SuNDAY (totem) (L.8.]
presence of: Jacop SuNDAY (totem), orSr)
CHARLES ANDERSON, Jacop PazHEGEZHICK (totem) [L.8.]

SILVESTER FIURLBURT. JAMES GAHGAHNAQUOTTWABE (totem),
[L.S8.]
Jacop PAHBEWUN (totem), [L.8.]

JaMes NAH-WAH-QUASH-KUM (totem),
. L.8.]

No. 50.

TnpIAN Orrice, Toronto, 5th January, 1841.

; The Lieutenant Governor has directed me to inform the deputation of Chiefs

from the Grand River that he has maturely considered their speech to him, and par-
ticularly that important part of it which relates to the occupation of their lands by
white people without.authority.

The Lieutenant Governor is of opinion that very ereat difficulties will be found
in any medium course between the expulsion of all intruders or non-interference, as
experience has shown that with all the anxiety to do justice, and with all the care
exercised to prevent injury to Indian interests, the interference of the Indians them-
selves, continually, has created new difficulties, to which there seems to be no end,
and yet the Government is expected to compromise its own character by adjudging what
is right and wisely recommended by the Indians, or what, on the other hand, may be
eapriciously or corruptly counselled by them.

The Lieutenant Governor is of opinion that there can be no remedy found for
the continuance of this unsatisfactory and embarrassing state of affairs while the