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Indian Reserve in the Township of Delaware, assembled at a meeting of such band
summoned for that purpose, and who were entitled to vote thereat.
Sworn before me at Strathroy, |

in the County of Middlesex

and Province of Ontario and

Dominion of Canada, this ROBT. MACKENZIE, V.8S.& C. |
19th day of January, in the , JOHN SICKLES. Chief. —

year of Our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-
two. ‘ j
Wo. ELLIOT,
Judge of the County Court, County of Middlesex.

Recorded 7th February, 1872. |
Lib. S. Surrenders to the Crown, fol. 57. §
J. C. AIKINS,
Secretary of State and Registrar General of Canada.

No. 128.

Know ALL MEN By ‘THESH PRESENTS that we, the Chiefs, Principal Men
and Warriors of the Chippewa Indians of Sarnia, owning and residing upon
the Sarnia Indian Reserve, being this day assembled in general couneil to
the number of ‘sixty, and acting by and with the full authority and consent of
our people, have agreed to surrender and yield up, and do hereby surrender and
yield up unto Our Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her heirs ard successors, in
trust, to be sold for our own and our children’s benefit, all that certain portion
of our said reserve, containing about fifteen acres, be the same more or less,
which is commonly called the Indian Mission Lot, immediately south of the Town »
of Sarnia, and which is bounded on the west, first by the public highway and
then by the River St. Clair; on the south by the surveyed line known as the
continuation of the road allowance between the fourth and fifth concessions of the
Township of Sarnia, and on the north and east by the curved Jine bounding the
Great Western Railway track. To the end that the said described piece of land,
including the beach and water privileges in front of the same, may be surveyed
and sold in such manner and on such terms as the Honourable the Chief Super-
intendent of Indian Affairs for the Dominion of Canada may judge to be best for our
advantage, and that the interest to be derived from the proceeds of the said property
when sold shall be divided and paid over to our people, at the same times in each
year as it is customary to pay our annuities and interest moneys; subject, nevertheless,
to the following stipulations and conditions, namely: that an apprepriation of ten
acres of land from the front of lot number twenty-six front range of our said reserve,
shall be devoted and set apart for mission and school uses, in lieu of the land now
being surrendered, and also that the sum of three thousand dollars shall be reserved
4rom the moneys to be received for the sale of the said surrendered land, and the
Wesleyan Methodist Mission premises thereon, ‘and shall be paid out for the erection
of new Wesleyan Methodist Mission buildings, council and school houses, on the
above lot number twenty-six. And further, that the full and free use of the present
mission and council houses shall be continued to our people and the resident mission-
ary until the proposed new buildings are erected and made fit for occupation. In
witness to all which covenants and conditions we, the said Chiefs, Principal Men and
Warriors, have set our hands and seals to this surrender, executed in duplicate, and
dated at Sarnia, in the County of Lambton, Province of Ontario and Dominion of
Clanada, this first day of May, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred

and seventy-two.
WILLIAM WAWANOSH, [L.8.]

JOSEPH WAWANOSH, [L.$8.]
JOHN JOHNSTON, [L,S.]
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ROBERT GEORGE, [L.8.]
ELIJAH GEORGE, [L.S.]
EpuraIm JACKSON, [L.8.]
CHARLES CORNING, x Hu:
ALEXANDER RE-NANANG, [L.8.]
JOHN HALFDAY, x ! [L.S.]
Isaac JACKSON, [L.8.]
JOHN ROGERS, x | [L.8.]
' NicHoLAS PLAIN, x = fied.)
JOHN SUMNER, [L.S.]
WILSON JACOBS, [L.8.]
Davin KAHGAUCK, x [L.S.]
JOHN KEWAKAHNICK, x [L.8.]
JABEZ JACKSON, [L.S.]
JOSEPH PETAUDIE, [iS]
SAMPSON JACKSON, [L.S.]
JAMES SION, [L.S.]
JOHN BEAVER, xX Peal
ALEx. ROGERS, [L.S.]
JOHN KAN-KANG, [L.8.]
JAMES MENASS, x [L.8.]
WILLIAM COTROLL, xX [L.8.]
Peter MENASS, x [L.8.]
DanieEL NAHMABIN, xX [L.S.]
SILAS PAINEGONCE, [L.S.]
ALBERT Ropp, [L.S8.]
NicHoLAS KABAYOSH, xX [L.S.]
LuKE NAWAHDAYOSH, [Es. |
AvAM HALFDAY, a. |
PretTER Ropp, [L.8.]
Paut Ropp, x [L.8.]
CHARLES LAFORGE, x [L.S.]
Francis MENASS, x pee
Isaac STONE, x Base
JOSIAH WILLIAMS, x [L.8.]
JOHN THOMAS, x Yel:
SaMES MASHAHKEE, xX [L.8.]
Issac CHIPPEWA, xX [L.8.]
JAMES MENASS, Jr., lissed

Tuomas NAYAHNISHQUODT, x [L.S.]
GrorGe ASHQUAQUONABY, xX (LS3]
WILLIAM WAHBUOCK. x ESS]

We, Robert Mackenzie, Local Superintendent and Commissioner, and William
Wawanosh, Interpreter to the Chippewa Indians of Sarnia, being also one of the
Chiefs entitled to vote at their councils, do hereby affirm and certify that the above
surrender was freely assented to and executed in general council of the band on the
date therein mentioned, and that the said assent was given unanimously.

Sworn before me at the Town of) ROBT. MACKENZIE, V. 8. & C.
Sarnia, in the County of Lambton, WILLIAM WAWANOSH.

this second day. of May, A.D. 1872. |

CHARLES ROBINSON,
Judge of the County of Lambton.
Cory of a Report of a Committee of the Honorable the Privy Council approved by His .

Excellency the Governor General in Council on the 2nd day of October, 1873.
On a memorandum dated 30th September, 1873, from the Honorable the Minis-

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ter of the Interior, submitting for acceptance a surrender from the Chiefs and Prin- —

cipal Men and others of the Chippewa Indians of Sarnia, bearing date Ist May, 1872,
conveying to the Crown in trust the Indian mission lot, and “including the beach
and water privileges in front of the same.”

The Committee advise that the surrender be accepted by Your Excellency in
Council, in conformity with the provisions of the 8th section of the Act 31st Vic-
toria, chap. 42, with a view to the intention of the said surrender being carried into
effect.

Certified.
W. A. HIMSW ORTH Gc:
To the Honorable
The Minister of the Interior, &c., &., &e.
Recorded 5th November, 1873.
Lib. 6, Folio 475.
J. ©. ATKINS;
Secretary of State and Registrar-General of Canada.

No. 129.
Seal Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great
of Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &., &e., &e.
Province
of W. P. HOwu.Lanp,
Ontario. Province of Ontario.

To all to whom these presents shall come,—GREETING.

Whereas the Honorable Alexander Campbell, of the City of Ottawa, in the
County of Carleton, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, hath contracted and
agreed for the absolute purchase of the lands and tenements hereinafter mentioned
and described, at and for the price or sum of one hundred and fifty-six dollars of
lawful money of Canada, and of which lands We are seized in right of Our Crown.

Now know ye, that in consideration of the said sum of one hundred and fifty-six
dollars well and truly paid to Our use, at or before the sealing of these Our Letters
Patent, We have granted, sold, aliened, conveyed and assured, and by these presents
do grant, sell, alien, convey and assure unto the said the Honorable Alexander
Campbell, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, and his successors in office
for ever, all those parcels or tracts of land situated, lying and being. in the Town-
ship of South Algona, in the County of Renfrew, in the Province of Ontario, con-
taining by admeasurement one thousand five hundred and sixty-one acres, be the
same more or less, which said parcels or tracts of land may be otherwise known as
follows, that is to say: being composed of lots numbers three, four, five, Six, seven,
eight, nine and ten, in the ninth concession; and lots numbers five, six, seven, eight,
nine and ten, in the tenth concession of the aforesaid Township of South Algona,

reserving the allowance for road along the banks of the Bonnechére River and —

Golden Lake and free access to the shores thereof for all vessels, boats and persons.
To have and to hold the said parcels or tracts of land hereby granted, conveyed and
assured unto the said the Honorable Alexander Campbell, Superintendent General
of Indian Affairs, and his successors in office in that capacity for ever in trust for
the use, settlement ‘and benefit of the band of Algonquin Indians resident at or near
Golden Lake in the said Township of South Algona and County of /Renftew, saving,
excepting and reserving, nevertheless, unto Us, Our heirs and successors, the free
uses, passage and enjoyment of, in, over and upon all navigable waters that shall or
may be hereafter found on or under, or be flowing through or upon, any part of the
said parcels or tracts of land hereby granted as aforesaid.

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