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} And we hereby on oath certify before Chas. B. Rouleau, Esq., District Magis-
|trate for the District of Ottawa, Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, that
\the annexed release or surrender was assented to by the Band of Indians therein
|mentioned, assembled at a meeting summoned for that purpose.

|Sworn before me at Maniwaki, in the)

| Province of Quebec, this twenty-|

PATRICK MOORE,

sixth day of June, in the year of $ his
our Lord one thousand eight hundred | PIERRE TE DESI, x
and seventy-eight. J mark.

Cuas. B. RouLeau,
District Magistrate for the District of Ottawa.

| Recorded 29th October, 1878. |

Liber 60, Folio 126.
ike CATE LLIN,
Dep. Registrar-General of Canada.

No. 169.

Tuis INDENTURE, made the twentieth day of March, in the year of Our Lord one

thousand eight hundred and seventy nine :
Between David Johnson and James Johnson, both of the Township of Sarawak,

in the County of Grey, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, farmers,

of the first part ;
Catherine Johnson, of the same place, wife of the said David Johnson, of the

second part ;
And Her Majesty Queen Victoria of the third part.
Whereas, by letters patent under the Great Seal of the Province of Canada, and

dated the twentieth day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hun-

dred and sixty-seven, Her Majesty Queen Victoria granted unto one William Roy, of
the said Township of Sarawak, Esquire, lot number sixteen, in the third concession

of the Township of Sarawak, in the County of Grey, in the Province of Ontario and
Dominion of Canada, reserving thereout the Indian graveyard thereon, containing

one quarter of an acre.
And Whereas, the said William Roy granted and conveyed said lot to one John

Scagel, and the said John Scagel eranted and conveyed same to one Samuel Redfern,
and the said Samuel Redfern granted and conveyed same to the said parties of the

first part, all said conveyances being subject to said reservation.
And Whereas, the said Indian eraveyard had not at the time of the issuing of

the said patent been selected or set apart.

And Whereas, the land hereinafter described has been selected and set apart by
Her Majesty the Queen as an Indin graveward reserved in said letters patent,
and Her Majesty the Queen has, through Her Superintendent-General of Indian
Affairs for the Dominion of Canada, requested the said parties of the first part to
surrender same to Her Majesty in trust for the use of the Cape Croker Band of Chip-

pewa Indians.

Now This Indenture Witnesseth, that the said parties of the first part, im con-
sideration of the premises and of the sum of one dollar to them in hand paid (the re-
ceipt whereof is hereby acknowledged), have granted and surrendered, and by these
presents do grant and surrender unto Her Majesty Queen Victoria and Her succes-
sors, all and singular that parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in the Town-
ship of Sarawak, in the County of Grey, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of
Canada: Being composed of a portion of lot number sixteen in the third concession
of the Township of Sarawak aforesaid, and which may be more particularly de-

scribed as follows, that, is to say :

Commencing at a post one ch
the line between lots fifteen and sixteen in the

ain north seventy-three degrees west from where
said third concession of the Town-
ship of Sarawak produced would intersect the water’s edge of Owen Sound Bay ;
thence north seventy-three degrees, west one chain and sixty links to a post; thence
north seventeen degrees, east one chain and ninety links to a post at the end of the
mill dam ; thence at a course of about south fifty-one degrees, east (following tha
edge of the Indian River) one chain and seventy links, more or less; thence south
seventeen degrees, west one chain and twenty-five links to the place of beginning, con-
taining one rood, more or less—all the above courses being magnetic.

To have and to hold the said parcel or tract of land hereby granted and sur-
rendered, with the appurtenances, unto Her said Majesty the Queen and Her succes-
sors in trust for the sole use and benefit. of the Cape Oroker Band of Chippewa
Indians. . .

And the said party of the second part, wife of the said David Johnson, for and

in consideration of the premises and of the sum of one dollar of lawful money of
Canada to her in hand paid at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents
(the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged), hath granted and released, and by
these presents doth grant and release unto Her said Majesty the Queen and Her
successors, all her dower and right and title which, in the event of her surviving her
said husband she might or would have to dower into or out of the lands and pre-
mises hereby conveyed or intended so to be.

And Her said Majesty the Queen accepts and confirms said surrender, testified —
by the signature hereto of the Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs for Canada.

Iy Witness WHEREOF, the said parties hereto have hereunto set their hands and
seals.

Signed, sealed and delivered in the pre-
sence of J. W. McDowall, as regards
signatures of David Johnson, James
Johnson and Catherine Johnson; H.
Kinloch, as to signature of the Suner-
intendent-General of Indian Affairs.

: Davin JOHNSON, [L.8.]
JAMES JOHNSON, [L.8.]
fi CATHERINE JOHNSON, [L.8.]
| JouHn A. Macponatp, [L.8.]
Supt.-Gen. Indian Affairs.

DoMINION OF CANADA, }
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO,
County oF GREY.
To Wit:
I, Joseph William McDowall, of the Town of Owen Sound, in the County of
Grey, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, student-at-law, make oath
and say :
1. That I was personally present and did see the within Instrument and the

duplicate thereof duly signed, sealed and executed by James Johnson, David Johnson
and Catherine Johnson, wife of the said David Johnson, three of the parties thereto.

2. That the said Instrument and duplicate thereof were executed by the said

James Johnson, David Johnson and Catherine Johnson, at the said Town of Owen

Sound.
3. That I know the said parties, and that said James Johnson is an unmarried

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4. That I am a subscribing witness to the said Instrument and duplicate. :
Sworn before me at the Town of } :
Owen Sound, in the County of i 4
Grey, this 4th day of April, * J. W. McDOWALL. :|
A.D. 1879. ) ;

SAML. I. LANE,
A Commr. for taking Affidavits in B. R., &c., Ee.

Recorded 28th April, 1879.

Liber 60, Folio 242. j ‘
L. A. CATELLIER,

Dep. Registrar-General of Canada.