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DOMINION LANDS.

Interim Receipt.
No. 5871
Orrick oF Dominion Lanps,
° Qu’ApPELLE District,
28th August 1883

Received from William Bevan Crashie the sum of ten Dollars, being the fee
required by the “ Act respecting the Public Lands of the Dominion,” to be paid on
filing an application to be entered for a homestead Right which he has done for the
North East Quarter of Section thirty four Township twenty one Range thirteen
West second meridian.

A. J. FRASER
$10.00 for Agent Dominion Lands.

Kwow atu Men sy THESE Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and
Principal men of The Rice Lake Band of Indians resident on our Reserve in the
Township of Otonabee in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, for and
acting on behalf of the whole people of our said Band in Council assembled, D»
hereby release, remise, surrender, quit claim and yield up unto Our Sovereign Lady
The Queen, her Heirs and Successors forever, ALL AND SINGULAR, that certain
parcel or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the Township of
Otonabee in the County of Peterborough and Province of Ontario containing by
admeasurement be the same more or less and being composed of
Location Number Twenty Five of the Rice Lake Indian Reserve in the aforesaid
Township of Otonabee

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty Tue Queen, her
Heirs and Successors forever, in trust to lease the same to such person or persons, and
upon such terms as the Government of the Dominion of Canada may deem most
conducive to our welfare and that of our people.

AND upon the further condition that all moneys received from the leasing thereof,
shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management, be paid to
the Indian Locatee

AND WE, the said Chief and Principal men of the said Band of Indians do
on behalf of our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confirm, and promise to
ratify and confirm, whatever the said Government may do, or cause to be lawfully
done, in connection with the leasing of the said land and the disposal of the said rent

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our
seals this 13th day of February in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred

and ninety four

Signed Sealed and Delivered, in the pre- ) Ropr. Paupusu \[L.S.]
sence of WELLINGTON COWE [L.S.]
JOHN THACKERAY JAMES JARVIS [L.S.]
JEREMIAH CROWE ih. |

Joun D. Muskrat [L.S.]

DaNIEL CowE Sen [L.S.]

Dan CowE Jr [L.S.]

DaNiEL Fawn [L.S.]

JAMES Howarp [L.S.]

GEORGE COWE [L.S.]

JOSEPH LUKES [L.S.]

SoLtomon SPANIARD [L.S.}
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DOMINION OF CANADA, Personally appeared before me, John
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO Thackeray Agent of the Mississagua In-
CouNTY OF ‘PETERBOROUGH dians of Rice Lake Reserve in the Pro-
To Wit: vinee of Ontario and Robert Paudush

Chief of the said Band of Indians.

AND the said John Thackeray for himself saith :—

That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by a majority of the male
members of the said Band of Indians of the Rice Lake Reserve of the full age of
twenty-one years then present.

That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band summoned
for that purpose and according to their Rules.

That he was present at such meeting or council and heard such assent given.

That he was duly authorized to attend such council or meeting by the Super-
intendent General of Indian Affairs.

That no Indian was present or voted at said council or meeting who was not a
member of the Band or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Sur-
render.

And the said Robert Paudush says:

That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by him and a majority of
the male members of the said Band of Indians of the full age of twenty-one years
then present.

That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band of Indians
summoned for that purpose, according to their Rules, and held in the presence of the
said

That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not a
habitual resident on the Reserve of the said Band of Indians or interested in the land
mentioned in the said Release or Surrender.

That he is a Chief of the said Band of Indians and entitled to vote at the said
meeting or council.

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Sworn before me by the Deponents
John Thackeray and Robert Paudush
at the Town of Peterborough in the -* :
County of Peterborough this 23rd day opr. EAUDUSH:
of Feby A.D., 1894.

D. W. DuMBLE
Police Magistrate

JOHN THACKERAY

Accepted by the Governor in Council on the 16th April 1894.
JOHN J. McGEE
Clerk of the Privy Council.

Recorded 2nd May 1894,
Lib: 149, Fol: 68.
L. A. Carentmr
Dep: Registrar General of Canada. eats