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Cory of a Report of a Committee of the Honorable the Hxecutwe Council, dated 31st
January, 1855, approved by His Lecellency the Governor General m Council on the -

3rd February, 1855.

On a communication dated 31st January, ult., from the Superintendent General of
Indian affairs, transmitting a surrender from the Chippewa Indians of Saugeen and
Owen Sound to Her Majesty, in trust of a tract of land situated in the County of
Grey, and forming part of the Peninsula on the north-east shore of Lake Huron,
commonly called the “ Saugeen Reserve,” and requesting that the trust may be
accepted by Your Excellency in Council and entered upon the records in the offices
of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Provincial Registrar.

The Committee recommend that the trust be accepted, and that an entry be
made thereof in the offices of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Provincial
Registrar.

Certified.

WM. H. LEE,
C.E.C.

To the Honourable
The Provincial Registrar,
&e., &e., &e.

PROVINCIAL REGISTRARS OFFICE,
QueBEc, 15th February, 1855.

| IT hereby certify that the foregoing surrender and minute of the Executive
Council thereon have been entered upon the records of this office in Lib. C.S.,

Folio 129.
THO. AMIOT,

Depy. Regr.

No. 74.

, J. COLBORNE.
UPPER CANADA.

WituiAM tHE FourtH, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith. !

To all to whom these presents shall come—GREETING.

Know ye that We, of Our special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion,
have given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant unto the Reverend
Richard Scott, of the Township of Otonabee; the Revd. Alexander Bethune, of
Cobourg; Charles Anderson, and Charles Rubidge, both of the Township of Otonabee,
Esquires, all in the County of Northumberland, in the District of Newcastle; and
the Honourable George Herchmer Markland, of the City of Toronto, in the Home
District, and to their heirs and assigns for ever, all that pareel or tract of land
situate in the Township of Otonabee, in the County of Northumberland, in the Dis--
trict of Newcastle, in Our Province of Upper Canada, containing one thousand one
hundred and twenty acres, be the same more or less, being the town plot reser-
vation on the Rice Lake and River Otonabee in the said Township of Otonabee,
commencing on the shore of the Rice Lake where a red cedar post has been planted
at the south-east angle of a certain block of land granted to Charles Anderson,
Esquire; then north sixteen degrees forty minutes west sixty three chains, to where
a red cedar post has been planted at the north-east angle of the said block; then
| south seventy-four degrees five minutes west sixty-five chains, more or less, to within
|. one chain of the River Otonabee; then northerly following the several turnings and
windings of the said river against the stream, always at tne distance of one chain
therefrom, to within one chain of lot number seven, in the twelfth concession of the

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said Township; then north seventy-four degrees five minutes east along the southern ©

limit of the allowance for road between the reservation aforesaid and lots numbers
seven, in the eleventh and twelfth concessions of the said township, one hundred and

eighteen chains, to the north-east angle of the said reservation, being in the western ©

limit of the allowance for road between the tenth and eleventh concessions of the
aforesaid ‘Township; then south sixteen degrees forty minutes east along the
western limit of the allowance for road produced between the said concessions,
ninety-six chains tifty links, to the Rice Lake; then south-westerly along the
water’s edge to the place of beginning, reserving within the same one chain
offthe front of the said block on the lake as an accommodation for a ferry,
with free access to the beach for all vessels, boats and persons. To have and
to hold the said pareel or tract of land ‘hereby given and granted to them, the
said Richard Seott, Alexander Bethune, Charles Anderson, Charles Rubidge and
George Herchmer Markland, their heirs and assigns forever, but upon the trusts,
nevertheless, and to and for the uses, interests and purposes following, that is to say,
in trust to hold the same forever hereafter to and for the benefit of the Indian tribes in
tnis Province, and with a view to their conversion and civilization, saving neverthe-
less to Us, Our heirs and successors, all mines of gold and silver, that shall or may
be hereafter found on any part of the said parcel or tract of land hereby given and
eranted as aforesaid, and saving and reserving unto Us Our heirs and successors all
white pine trees that shall or may now or hereafter grow or be growing on any part
of the said parcel or tract of land hereby granted as aforesaid, provided always that
no part of the parcei or tract of land ‘nereby given and granted, be within any reser-
vation heretofore made and marked for Us, Our heirs and successors by Our Sur-
veyor General of Woods, or his lawful deputy, in which case this Our grant for such
part of the land hereby given and granted forever, as aforesaid, and which shall,
upon a survey thereof being made, be found within any such reservation, shall be
null and void and of none effect, anything ‘herein contained to the contrary notwith-
standing. Provided always, nevertheless, that in case any of them, the said Richard
Seott, Alexander Bethune, Charles Anderson, Charles Rubidge and George Herch-
mer Markland, or any succeeding trustee or trustees to be appointed as hereinafter
mentioned shall happen to die, or to be desirous of being discharged from the
powers or trusts hereby in them reposed or vested, or become incapable of acting in
the same, then and in every such case, and so often as the same shall happen, full
power and authority is given by these presents to the said Richard Scott, Alexander
Bethune, Charles Anderson, Charles Rubidge and George Herchmer Markland, or
the survivor or survivors of them, or any of them, or any succeeding trustee or
trustees of them, the said Richard Scott, Alexander Bethune, Charles Anderson,
Charles Rubidge and George Hercomer Markland, or any of them, or the survivor
or survivors of them, or any of them, by any writing or writings under their or his
hands and seals, or hand and seal to be by them or him sealed and delivered in pre-
sence of and attested by two or more credible witnesses, to nominate, substitute and
appoint any other fit person in the room and place of any of them, the said Richard
Scott, Alexander Bethune, Charles Anderson, Charles Rubidge and George
Hercnmer Markland, or any succeeding trustee who shall so die or be
desirous of being released, or discharged from, or become incapable of acting
in the aforesaid trusts or powers, and so from time to time as often as
there shall be occasion to nominate, substitute, and appoint any other person or per-
sons in the place or stead of them the said Richard Scott, Alexander Bethune,
Charles Anderson, Charles Rubidge and George Herchmer Markland, or any of them,
or any succeeding person or persons to be appointed as aforesaid who shall die, or
be desirous of being discharged, or become incapable, as aforesaid, and when and so
often as any person or persons saall be nominated and appointed as aforesaid the
said parcel or tract of land, hereditaments and premises hereby mentioned, or in-
tended to be hereby granted, shall be conveyed with all convenient speed in such
manner and form so as that all and every other person or persons so to be appointed

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as aforesaid shall and may be invested with all such powers and authorities, and shall
and may in all things act in relation to the premises in conjunction with the others
of them who shall or may survive or not decline, or not become incapable to act
thereon, as fully and effectually in all respects and to all intents and purposes as if
he or they had originally been, in and by these presents, a grantee to the uses and
trusts for the purposes aforesaid, anything hereinbefore contained to the contrary

L 1 1 “neo, In default ofall om any of which conditions
limitations and restrictions, this said grant and everything. herein contained shall
be, and we nereby declare the same to be null and void to all intents and purposes

same had never been granted, anything herein contained to the contrary thereof in
anywise notwithstanding.

And whereas by an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, passed in the thirty-
first year of the reign of the late King George the Third, entitled: “ An Act. to repeal
Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty’s reign, entitled :
‘An Act for making more effectual provision for the government of the Province of

Quebec in North America, and to make further provision for the Government of the
said Province’,” it is declared that no grant of lands thereafter made should be valid
or effectual unless the same should contain a specification of the land to be allotted

and appropriated solely to the maintenance of a Protestant clengy within the said

_ Province in respect of tne lands to be thereby granted.

Now Know Yg, that we have caused an allotment or appropriation of one hun-
dred and sixty acres to be made in lot number fifteen, in the thirteenth concession of

the said Township of Otonabee.
In Testimony Wuereor, we, have caused these Our Letters to be made patent,

and the Great Seal of Our gaid Province to be hereunto affixed,

eal S. Jameson, Witness our trusty and well-beloved Sir John Colborne, K.C3B:;
ttorney General. See ; : ,

Lieutenant-Governor of Our said Province and Major General

Commanding Our forces therein, at Our City of Toronto, this nineteenth day of April,
in the year of Our Lord one thousand eignt hundred and thirty-four, and in the fourth

year of Our reign. iva Ge
By command of His Excellency in Council,
D. CAMERON, Secy.

O. C., 5th February, 1831, administration of
Sir JoHn Corporne, K.C.B.,

Lt.-Governor.
Entered with the Auditor, 22nd May, 1834.

D. Bouton, JR.,
Auditor General.

PRovINCIAL REGISTRAR’S OFFICE,
Monrreat, 14th April, 1845.

I certify that the within is truly and correctly copied from the entry of the
original grant, as it is entered in the records of this office in EK, fol. 491.
R. P. TUCKER,
Registrar.

No. 75.

To all whom these presents shall come,— GREETING.

Know ye that I, the undersigned Cnief of the Band or Tribe of Indians residing
and holding lands at Gros Cap, on Lake Superior, near the Hudson’s Bay Post of
Michipicoton, have surrendered and do surrender by these presents, on my own
behalf and that of my people whom I represent, with their entire knowledge and
consent, unto Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs and succesors,