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JosePH I. WHITE, JR., [L.S.]
Peter WHITE, [L.S.]
IsRAEL J. SPLITLOG, fL.8.4
Lewis WaARrRow, [L.S.]
JOSEPH J. CLARKE, BES
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mark and seal.
ALEXANDER WHITE, [L.8.]

We, Robert McKenzie, Visiting Superintendent and Commissioner, appointed to
receive the surrender above expressed, and Solomon White, one of the chief members
of the Wyandott Indians, and entitled to vote at tkeir councils, hereby certify that
the aforesaid surrender was freely assented to by a large majority of the said Band
of Indians, at a council specially summoned for that purpose, in accordance with the

Act 31 Vie., cap. 42, sec. 8.
ROBT. MACKENZIE,
V.S. and Comr.

Ss. WHITE.

Sworn and subscribed before me
this 21st day of August, 1875,
at Sandwich.
G. W. LEGGATT,
Judge Essex.

Recorded 2ist September, ee

Lib. S., Folio 232.
AO ATELIER,
Deputy Registrar General of Canada.

No. 147:

Surrenper by the Chief and Band of the Ojibway Indians, residing on the Rama
Reserve, in the County of Ontario, Province of Ontario and Dominion of Can-
ada, to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, of certain portions of their land in the said
Rama Reserve, for railway purposes, described below, to be sold for their benefit.

Know ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we the undersigned Chief and Principal
Men of the Rama Band of Ojibway Indians resident on our reserve at Rama, in the
County of Ontario, Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, for and acting on
behalf of the whole people of our said Band, do hereby remise, release, surrender,
quit cleaim and yield up unto Our Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her heirs and suc-
cessors forever,—

Att AND SINGuLAR those certain parcels or tracts of land, situated, lying and
being in the said Rama Reserve, in the Township of Rama, in the County of Ontario,
in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada aforesaid, being composed of
parts of lots numbers five, six, seven, eight and nine and ten in the front range of lots
on Lake Couchiching, in the said Township of Rama, commencing at the point of
intersection of the centre line of the Toronto, Simcoe and Muskoka Junction Rail-
way with the division line between lots numbers four and five in the front range of
lots on Lake Couchiching in said Township of Rama, which said intersection is dis:
tant, westerly, two thousand and seventy-five feet, more or less, measured along the
said division line from the westerly limit of the road allowance in rear of said lots
fronting on Lake Couchiching in the said Township of Rama.

Thence along the centre line of said railway on a course north six degrees and
thirty minutes east, two thousand two hundred and ninety feet, with a width of sixty-
six feet; thence still along the said centre line of said railway on the same course

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fve hundred feet, with a width of eighty feet; thence still along the said centre
line of said railway on the same course two thousand and eighty feet, more or less,
with a width of sixty-six feet, to the intersection of the division line between lots
numbers ten and eleven in the said range of lots on Lake Couchiching, which said
intersection is distant westerly two thousand five hundred and eighty feet, more or
less, measured along the said division line from the westerly limit of the allowance
for road in rear of said range of lots, saving and excepting from the herein described
property all that portion of the road allowance betwen lots numbers six and seven
in the said range, containing by measurement seven acres and forty-two hundredths
of an acre, be the same more or less. P

Also of parts of lots numbers sixten and seventeen in front range of lots on Lake
Couchiching, in the said Township of Rama, commencing at the point of intersection

of the centre line of the Toronto, Simcoe and Muskoka Junction Railway with the ©

division line between lots numbers sixteen and seventeen in said front range of lots
on Lake Couchiching, in said Township of Rama, which said intersection is distant
westerly one thousand four hundred and sixty fect more or less measured along the
said division line from the westerly limit of the allowance for road in rear of said
range of lots ; thence along centre line of said railway north six degrees and thirty
minutes, east, one thousand five hundred and forty feet, more or less, to the intersec-
tion of the division line between lots numbers seventeen and eighteen in the said
range of lots, which said intersection is distant westerly three hundred and sixty feet,
more or less, measured along said division line from the westerly limit of the allow-
enee for road in rear of said range of lots with a width of three hundred feet through-
out, containing by measurement ten acres and fifty-eight hundredths of an acre,
be the same more or less.

Also of parts of lots numbers twenty-six and twenty-seven in front range of lots
on Lake Couchiching, in said Township of Rama, commencing at the point of inter-
section of the centre line of the Toronto, Simcoe and Muskoka Junction Railway
with the division line between lots numbers twenty-five and twenty-six in the front
range of lots on Lake Couchiching in said Township of Rama, which said intersec-
tion is distant westerly twelve hundred and twenty-five feet, more or less, measured
along the said division line from the water’s edge of Lake St. John; thence along
the centre line of said railway on a course north five degrees east, fifteen hundred and
forty-four feet, more or less, to the intersection of the division line between lots num-
bers twenty-seven and twenty-eight in the said range of lots which said intersection
is distant westerly fourteen hundred and fifty feet, more or less, measured along the
said division line from the water’s edge of Lake St. John, with a width of sixty-six
feet throughout, containing by measurement two acres and thirty-four hundredths
of an acre, be the same more or less.

Also of parts of lots numbers thirty-two and thirty-three in front range of lots on
Lake Couchiching, in the said Township of Rama, commencing at the point of inter-
section of the centre line of the Toronto, Simcoe and Muskoka Junction Railway
with the division line between lots numbers thirty-one and thirty-two in the front
range of lots on Lake Couchiching, in said Township of Rama, which said inter-
section is distant easterly, six hundred and ninety feet, more or less, measured
along the said division line from the water’s edge of Lake Couchiching; thence along
the centre line of said railway on a course north five degrees east, one hundred feet
with a width of one hundred feet, thence still along the centre line of said railway
on the same course seven hundred and seven feet with a width of sixty-six feet to
the beginning of a curve ; thence still along the centre line of said railway in a
curve of eight thousand five hundred and ninety-four feet radius, curving to the right
seven hundred and twenty-five feet, more or less, to the intersection of the division
line betwen lots numbers thirty-three and thirty-four in said range of lots, being
at or near the termination of said curve, which said intersection is distant easterly
eleven hundred and eighty feet, more or less, measured along the said division line
from the water’s edge of Lake Couchiching, containing by measurement two acres
and thirty-nine hundredths of an acre, be the same more or less.

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Also of part’ of lot number forty-two in the front range of lots on Lake Couchich-
ing, in the Township of Rama aforesaid.

Commencing at the point of intersection of the centre line of the said Toronto,
Simeoe and Muskoka Junction Railway, with the division line betwen lots numbers
forty-one and forty-two in the front range of lots on Lake Couchiching, in the said
Township of Rama, which said intersection is distant easterly two hundred and sixty
feet more or less, measured along said division line from the water’s edge of Lake
Couchiching; thence along the centre line of said railway on a course north fifteen
degrees east, eight hundred and twenty feet more or less, to the intersection of the
southern limit of the road allowance between lots numbers forty-two and forty-three,
which said intersection is distant easterly three hundred and ten feet, more or less,
measured along said limit of said road allowance from the water’s edge of Lake
Couchiching, with a width of sixty-six feet throughout containing by measure-
went one acre and twenty-four hundredths of an acre, be the same more or less.

And also of a part of lot number forty-six fronting on Lake Couchiching in the
said township, better known and described as a strip of land sixty-six feet wide (as
shewn on a plan of the Northern Extension Railway (Muskoka Branch), fyled in the
cfice of the Provincial Secretary of Ontario). The line in the centre of which
strip may be described as follows, that is to say : Commencing at the intersection of
the southerly limit of said lot with centre of the present located line of the Northern
Extension Railway (Muskoka Branch); thence northerly followixg the course of
the said centre line on a curve of three thousand one hundred and twenty-five feet
r:dius, four hundred and ten feet, more or less, to the southerly limit of a road
allowance reserved in the original grant from the Crown, and containing by ad-
measurement sixty-two hundredths of an acre, be the same more or less.

To have and to hold the same unto Her said Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and
successors forever, in trust, to sell and convey the same to such person or persons,
and upon such terms as the Government of this Dominion may deem most con-
ducive to the interests of us, the said Chief and Principal Men, and our people in all
time to come.

And upon the further condition that the moneys received for the sale thereof
shall, after deducting the usual expense of management, be placed at interest, and the
interest money accruing from such investments, shall be paid annually or semi-
atnually to us and our descendants.

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

In Witness WHEREOF, we, the said Chief and Principal Men, have set our hands
and affixed our seals unto this instrument in the year and place stated below.

Done at Rama, this twenty-sixth day of August, in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence} J. B. NANEGESHKUNG, Chief [L.S.]
of us, having been first read and in-| Perer JAcoBs, [L.S.]
terpreted : | Isaac YELLOWHEAD, ES

Wituiam PLUMMER, [| ae his a
Visiting Supt. and Comr. { JOHN SIMCOE, JR., ad! [L.S.]
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Indian Ajfavrs. | Micuarn St. GERMAIN, [L.Ss]
pe VinARe, | JouHN WILLIAMS, [L.8.]
Missionary. JoHN YOUNG, pees
FILBERT WILLIAMS, [L.8.]
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WILLIAM SNAKE, X [L.8.]

mark,
JOSEPH ST. GERMAIN. (Se
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Dominion of Canada; Province]
of Ontario, County of Ontario.
Lo Myr: {
Personally appeared before me William Plummer, of the city of Toronto, in th
said Provinee, Visiting Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and Joseph Benson Nanin-
veshkung, of the Township of Rama, in the County and Province aforesaid, the
Chief of the Rama Band of Indians, who being duly sworn, severally depose and say,
ist. The Said William Plummer for himself saith that the annexed Release or
Surrender was assented to by the said Joseph Benson Naningeshkung, he being the
only Chief of the said Tribe or body of Indians, assembled at a meeting or council
of the Tribe summoned for that purpose. ; F
ond. That the meeting or council was held in his presence ; and he heard such
assent given. .
3rd. That he was duly authorized to attend such council by the Minister of the
Interior.
And the said Joseph Benson Naningeshkung for himself saith :
ist. That he is a Chief and the only Chief of the Rama Band of Indians, and was
entitled to vote at the Council or meeting above mentioned.
ond. That the annexed release or surrender has been assented to by him.
ord. That such assent was given at a meeting or council summoned for that
purpose, at which he was present, and also the other deponent, William Plummer.

WILLIAM PLUMMER.
J. B. NANEGESHKUNG.

Sworn before me by the said deponents,
William Plummer and Joseph Benson
Naningeshkung, this 27th day of Au-
gust, 1873. J ;
J. N. S. Rost. Gowan,
Senior Judge, Ca. Simcoe.

Recorded 1st October, 1875.
Liber S, Folio 284.

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

No. 148.

To His Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir John Colborne, G.O.B., G.C.H., Governor
General, &c., &c., &c.
Zeport of a Committee of the Executive Council. Present : the Honorable Mr.
Stewart in the Chair; Mr. Cochran, Mr. Sheppard and Mr. Daly; on Your Excel-
leney’s reference of the Petition from Mr. McNab and Mr. C. D. Morson relative to

Kettle Island, leased by them from the Indians.

Approved,
J. COLBORNE.

May ir PLEASE Your EXCELLENCY:

The Committee, having taken into consideration the petition of Mr. McNab and
Mr. C. D. Morson, they are humbly of opinion that the lease for Ninety-nine years of
Kettle Island, granted in the yar 1818 by certain Indian Chiefs to one Eleazar
Gillson, and latterly acquired by the petitioners, is null and void, inasmuch as the
Indians have no right to grant Leases or dispose of the Lands situated within their
encient hunting grounds.

In support of the claim of the petitioners they state that Lord Dalhousie, then

Governor-in-Chief, in declaring that “the Indian leases are good for nothing” had

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