CANADA: |
Province oF Nova Scotia,
County or Pictou.

To Wit:
I. Daniel McDonald, of Fisher’s Grant, in the County of Pictou, make oath and —
say :
1. That I was personally present and did see the within Indenture and a dupli- —
cate thereof duly signed, sealed and executed by James Gillis Sproull and Christina

Sproull, two of the parties thereto.
29 That the said Indenture was executed at Fisher’s Grant.
3. That I know the said parties. f
4. That I am the subscribing witness to the said Indenture and duplicate.

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Sworn before-me at Fisher’s )

Grant, in the County of | DANIEL McDONALD.

Pictou, this third day of
July, A.D. 1876.

SAMUEL A, FOSTER, ;
A Commr. for taking Affidavits in said County.

Recorded 23rd August, 1878.
Liber 60, Folio 118.

L. A. CAatTELLIER,
Deputy Registrar-General of Canada.

Province oF Nova SCOTIA,
REGISTRAR’S OFFICE,
Picrou, 25th May, 1878.

licate was duly registered at five

I certify that the within Instrument in dup
135, and 136, on the certificate of

o’clock p.m. of the above day in Book 738, pages
Samuel A. Foster, Commissioner.
JOHN FERGUSON, Regr.

No. 174

We, the undersigned Principal Men of the Scugog Band of Mississagua Indians, |
resident on our reserve in the Township of Scugog, in the County of Ontario and ©
Province of Ontario, and Dominion of Canada, for and in behalf of our whole —
Band, in council assembled, do hereby release and surrender unto our Sovereign Lady |
the Queen, Her heirs and successors, all and singular those certain parcels or tracts |
of land situated, lying and being in our said reserve, and containing by admeasure-
ment four hundred acres, be the same more or less, and being composed of lots num- |
bers six and seven, in the eleventh concession, in the Township of Seugog. |

Tn trust, to lease the same to such person or persons, and upon such terms as
the Government of this said Dominion may deem most conductive to the interest of

us and our people.
And upon the condition th

paid to the individual Indians o
the said lands have been, or may be,

at the moneys received as rent for the same shall be
£ this said Band, to whom the respective portions of

hereafter allotted.
75

Ix Witness Wuereor, we, the said Principal Men, have set our hands and affixed
our seals, this ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

his
JOHN JOHNSTONE, x Chief. [L.8.]
mark,
his
CHANCEY JOHNSTONE, x [L.S.]
ree mark. :
4 Se ABRAM JOHNSON, x Piss]
Visiting Supt. Comm. I. A. nee
JouHn Foy, -ALVEY ELLioT, x PESs
Wm. Marspen, mark. on
Interpreter. JAMES JOHNSON, Sr. x [L.8.]
mark.
CHARLES McCrag, FES]
WILLIAM MarspbEN, fis]
JOHN Bops, [L.8.]
JOSEPH JOHNSTON, [L.S.]

Dominion oF CANApA, |
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, |

Counmy or YoRK,  [(
To “Wit: J

Personally appeared before me, William Plummer, of the city of Toronto, in
the said Province, Visiting Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and John Johnstone of
the Scugog Indian reserve, in the Township of Scugog, in the County of Ontario, in

said Province, Chief of the Scugog Band of Mississaugua Indians, who, being duly
Sworn, severally depose and say.

And the said William Plummer, for himself saith :
That the annexed release was assented to by the said John Johnstone and by a
majority of the said Tribe or body of Indians entitled to vote at a meeting or council

of the said Band summoned for that purpose.

That such meeting or council was held in his presence, and he heard such assent
given.
That he was duly authorized to attend such meeting or council by the Superin-
tendent-General of Indian Affairs.
And the said John Johnstone for himself saith :

That he is the Chief of the Scugog Band of Indians aforesaid, and was entitled
to yote at the meeting or council aforesaid. S

That the annexed release or surrender was assented to by him, and by a majority
of the members of the said Tribe or body of Indians, entitled to vote at the council
or meeting before mentioned. b

That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Tribe or body
of Indians, summoned for that purpose, at which himself and the other said members
of the said Tribe or body of Indians were present. And also the said other depon-

ent, William Plummer.
Sworn before me, by the said depon- ile WILLIAM PLUMMER,
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ents, William Plummer and John his .
Johnstone, this thirteenth day of JOTI,” x Se ehONE, Chief.
mark,

May, A.D. 1878.

S. H. BuaKe,
One of the Vice-Chancellors of the Province of Ontario.

Recorded 5th August, 1878, ]

Liber 60, Folio 109. y
L. A. CATELLIER, :

Deputy Registrar-General of Canada.
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