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No. 18.

ARTICLES OF PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT entered into on Saturday, the seventeenth
day of October, 1818, between the Honourable William Claus, Deputy Superintendent
General of Indian Affairs in pehalf of His Majesty, of the one part, and Musquakie,
or Yellow Head, Chief of the Rein Deer Tribe, Kaqueticum, Chief of the Cat Fish
Tribe, Maskigonce of the Otter Tribe, Manitonobe of the Pike Tribe, Principal Men
of the Chippewa Nation of Indians, inhabiting the northern parts of the unpurchased
lands within the Home District, of the other part, Witnesseth: that for and in con-
sideration of the yearly sum of twelve hundred pounds, Province currency, in goods
at the Montreal price to be well and truly paid yearly and every year by His said
Majesty to the said Chippewa Nation, inhabiting and claiming the said tract, which
may be otherwise known as follows : Bounded by the District of London on the west,
by Lake Huron on the north, by the Penetangueshine purchase (made. in 1815) on
the east, by the south shore of Kempenfelt Bay, the western shore of Lake Simcoe
and Cook’s Bay and the Holland River to the north-west angle of the Township of
King, containing by computation one million five hundred and ninety-two thousand

acres; and the said Musquakie, Kaqueticum, Maskigonce and Manitonobie, as well
for themselves as for the Chippewa Nation inhabiting and claiming the said tract of
land as above described, do freely, fully and voluntarily surrender and convey the
same to His Majesty without reservation or limitation in perpetuity.

And the said William Claus, in behalf of His Majesty, does hereby promise and
agree to pay to the said Nation of Indians inhabiting as above mentioned, yearly and
every year for ever, the said sum of twelve hundred pounds currency in goods at
the Montreal price, which sum the said Chiefs and Principal People parties hereunto
acknowledge as a full consideration for the Lands hereby sold and conveyed to His
Majesty.

In Wirness Wuereor, the parties have hereunto set their hands and seals on the

day first above mentioned in the Township of King.

Signed, sealed and delivered in) (W. Craus, Dep. Supt. Gen., [L.S.]
the presence of: § | on behalf of the Crown,

J. GIVINS, Musquakin, or YELLOW Hap, (totem) [L.S.]

Supt. Indian Affatrs. Kee or SNAKE, (totem) [L.8.]

Aurx. McDOoNELL, MusKIGONCE, or Swamp, (totem) [L.8.]

Asst. Sec’y Indian Affairs.| MANITONOBE, or Mate Devin, (totem [L.S.]

JOHN CLAUS. | MANITOBININCE, oF Deviv’s Birp, (totem) [L8S.]

True Copy,
W. Cuaus, Dep. Supt. Gen. Indian Affairs.

No. 19.

ARTICLES OF PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT, entered into on Wednesday, the twenty-
eighth day of October, 1818, between the Honourable William Claus, Deputy Superin-
tendent General of Indian Affairs on behalf of His Majesty, of the one part, and Adju-
tant, Chief of the Eagle Tribe, Weggishigomin of the Eagle Tribe, Kawwahbkitahqubi
of the Otter Tribe, Cabibonike of the Otter Tribe, and Pagitaniquatoibe of the Otter
Tribe, Principal Men of the Mississagua Nation of Indians inhabiting the River Credit,
Twelve and Sixteen Mile Creeks, on the north shore of Lake Ontario, within the Home
District, of the other part, Witnesseth: that for and in consideration of the
yearly sum of five hundred and twenty-two pounds ten shillings Province currency
in goods at the Montreal price to be well and truly paid yearly and every year by
His said Majesty to the said Mississagua Nation inhabiting and claiming the said
tract, which may be otherwise known as follows: “A tract of land in the Home
District, called the Mississagua tract,” bounded southerly by the purchase made in
1806; on the east by the Townships of Etobicoke, Vaughan and King; on the south-
west by the Indian purchase, extending from the outlet at Burlington Bay, north