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Ath. Division estate of Cornelius Rogers, on file in Probate Office, dated April
17th, 1817: “12 acres of land onyPitman’s or Starrs’ Road, being three-fifths of Lot
No. 39, first division,” set off to Lydia Sanders, wite of Nathaniel Sanders.
5th. Township plan shows Lot No. 29, first division, set off or granted to Thomas
Rogers.

N.B.—We find no deed on record to Benjamin Rogers, except the reference in
Deed Three that Lydia Sanders and her husband had transferred three-fifths of said
land to said Benjamin Rogers. We are informed that Cornelius Rogers is a son of
Thomas Rogers. Our records from {825 back are very defective, and the Index
books contain no grantee side back of that date. The mortgage referred to under
Deed Three (3) was, no doubt, paid and settled when due, as Benjamin Rogers, Sen-
ior, has been dead and his estate settled some 20 years. The heirs of estate of Ben-
jamin Rogers are, some of them, dead and some of them scattered, and it would be
now impossible to obtain a release. We have made careful enquiry with reference
to this property, and have no doubt title is vood, although defective on the records.

We would recommend that the property be run out by a surveyor and a plan of
same made.

Yours, etc.,

« CORNING & CHIPMAN.

Province or Nova Scotia,
REGISTRAR’S OFFICE, YARMOUTH, December 17th, 1887.

I certify that at ten o’clock a.m. of this day the foregoing instrument and plan
was duly registered, pursuant to law, on the oath of John P. Fitzgerald and Clive

Crosby, the subscribing witnesses, per certificates, Book B. P., pages 378, 874, 375, 376,
im 377, 378.

Recorded 1st May, 1888,) ADELAIDE MURRAY,
Tipe 127) 5Rol:- 186... | Registrar.

L. A. CATELLIER,
Dep. Registrar General of Canada.

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No. 255.

Crown Lanp Orricr, Hauirax, N.S., 6th Sept., 1888.

Sir,—In reply to your communication respecting the errors in the plan marked
B, attached to the enclosed patent, I beg to say the surveyor’s plan was made on a
scale of two chains to an inch, and was comparatively correct, but as it was rather
large and cumbersome I employed a clerk to reduce it, with the result stated by you.

After a patent has been executed and delivered we cannot make any corrections.
Where“a change is absolutely necessary the patent is released and another, with the
necessary alterations, is issued. In this case I do not consider it necessary to issue
a new patent, for it does not appear to me that the incorrect plotting will affect the
validity of the title. If, however, you consider it necessary, and send us a release,
a new patent will be made out.

L attached a copy of the original plan to the patent.

I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedt. servant,

| JAMES H. AUSTIN.
L. VANKOUGHNET, Esq., Ottawa.

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Province oF Nova Scoria—Par. 15245.

Voerorta, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,.
Queen, Defender of the Faith, &e., &e., &e.

Apams G. ARCHIBALD.
lo all to whom these Presents shall come—Greeting.

Whereas the lands and premises hereinafter mentioned and referred to have

heretofore been part of the public lands which | are vested in Us for the benefit. of the
Province of Nova Scotia.

And whereas, the Minister of the poe for Our Dominion of Canada hath
requested that the said lands should be transferred and set apart for the uses of the
Government of Canada as an Indian reserve, and the Government of Our Province of
Nova Scotia hath acceded to the said request and is desirous that the same should
be earried into foree and effect.

Now Know Ye, that We, of Our special grace, certain knowledge and meré:
motion, do hereby declare that the lands and premises hereinafter mentioned and
described are no longer held by Us for Our said Government and Province of Nova
Seotia, but shall be held by Us and Our heirs and successors for Our gaid Govern-
ment of the Dominion of Canada, and that the said lands and premises are hereby
transferred to the control of Our said Government of the Dominion of Canada, for
the uses and purposes of an Indian reserve, that is to say:

The following lands lying within the Island and County of Cape Breton, situate
on the south-west branch of Sydney River, per annexed plan marked A, bounded as
follows :— .

Beginning at the north-west angle of a lot of seventy-nine acres, granted to
Morrison McDonald, in the second range of lots on the southern side of the south-
west branch of Sydney River; thence running south twenty-six degrees, east eighty-
one chains and twenty-six links to a juniper post; thence south sixty-five degrees,
west sixty-seven chains and eighty links to a juniper post; thence north twenty-four
degrees, west eighty-one chains and forty links to a juniper post; thence north sixty-
five degrees, east sixty-four chains and ten links to the place of beginning, containing
five hundred and thirty-six acres, together with lot marked B, per annexed plan,
bounded as follows: Beginning at the north-east angle of Lot number 11, on the
southern side of Sydney Harbour, granted to F. O. L. Patch in A.D. 1869; thence
running south twenty-four degrees, east five chains; thence south eighty-five degrees,
east four chains and thirty-three links to the main road leading to Sydney; thence
north-easterly by said road one chain and forty-five links; thence north thirty-four
degrees, west six chains, to the shore; thence westerly by the shore at high water
mark to the place of beginning, containing two acres two roods and thirty-seven
perches, the two lots containing together five hundred and thirty-eight acres, two
roods and thirty-seven perches, more or less.

Reserving, however, to Us, Our heirs and successors, on behalf of Our said Gov-
ernment and Province of Nova Scotia, all and singular the mines of gold, silver, cval,
iron, tin, copper, lead and precious stones, and all beds and seams of gold, silver, coal,
iron, tin, copper, lead and precious stones in or under the said land, with full
liberty at all times to search and dig for and carry away the same, and for that
purpose to enter upon the said land or any part thereof, and further reserving to Us,
Our heirs and successors, the right of opening and completing any road or roads
through the same that may be found necessary to be made. .

And further reserving all the rights, interests, claims, privileges, easements,
possessions and other liberties heretofore granted, leased or licensed, or hereinafter
granted, leased or licensed, for the purpose of enabling such grantees, lessees or —
licensees to dig up, search for, win and take all and singular the said minerals above
reserved, under and by virtue of the statutes of Our said Province of Nova Scotia,
made, enacted, consolidated and now in force, touching and relating to the mines and
minerals thereof, and under and by virtue of all rules and regulations now made, and

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which shall or may be hereafter made and published in respect of the same, and
under and in aceordance with the covenants, conditions, agreements, promises and
stipulations in the said grants, leases or licenses made, contained and expressed, and
further reserving all rights, privileges and easements heretofore granted by us,
or lawfully acquired in, to or upon the said lands and premises.

Given under the Great Seal of Our said Province of Nova Scotia.

Witness Our trusty and well beloved, His Honour the Honourable Adams George
Archibald, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, this twenty-eighth day of April, in
the forty-fifth year of Our reign, and in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight

hundred and eighty-two.

By His Honour’s command,
S. H. HOLMES,
Provinceal Secretary.

Province or Nova Scotta,]
Care Breton, 8.8. §

OFFICE OF REGISTRY OF DEEDs,
SyDNEY, June 9th, 1883.

I certify that the foregoing grant was registered in this office at nine o’clock,

forengon, of this day, in Grant Book D, page 412, pursuant to law.
JNO. GILLIS, Regr.

No. 256.

_ Kyow att MEN BY THESE Prrsents, that we, the undersigned Chiefs and

Principal Men of the Band of Ojibewa Indians owning the Indian reserve on the

River Desert, in the Township of Maniwaki, in the Province of Quebec, and Dom-

inion of Canada, for and acting on behalf of our people, do hereby remise, release,

surrender, quit claim and yield up unto Our Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her heirs and

successors for ever, all and singular that certain portion or parcel of land containing

- by admeasurement four acres, be the same more or less, forming part of the Indian

reserve aforesaid, and which parcel of land may be known and described as follows,

and as laid down on the annexed traced plan of the same, that is to say: That portion

of Lot No. 4, River Desert Front, in the said Township of Maniwaki (formerly occu-

| pied as a farm by the late Chief Atwin Pekanawatik), bounded on the north by the

| holdings of Messrs. Hamilton Bros., on the west by the Desert River, on the south and
| east by a part of said lot now occupied by the successors of the said late Chief.

To have and to hold the same unto Her said Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and
successors forever, all and singular, that certain parcel or tract of land as above
described in trust, to be leased for a term of ten years to Mr. Sargeant B. Brock, to
build a steam sawmill thereon, at a rental of five dollars per acre per annum. The
said lease to be renewable from time to time, provided that the terms thereof shall
have been faithfully carried out by the lessee. The rent to be paid to the Superin-
tendent-General of Indian Affairs for the benefit of the grandson of the late Chief

Atwin Pekanawatik.
And we, the said Chiefs and Principal Men of the Band aforesaid do, on behalf

of our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confirm whatever the Government
of this Dominion of Canada may do, or cause to be lawfully done, in connection with
the said lease of the aforesaid lands.

Ix Wrrxess Wuereor, we, the said Chiefs and Principal Men, have set our
hands and have affixed our seals unto this Instrument at River Desert, in the said
Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada aforesaid, this thirteenth day of June,
in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

Signed, sealed and delivered SIMON OTJIK,
-in the presence of: Interpreter.
z JouHN Wuire, Indian Agent. And six other Indians, Members of the Band.

Srmion Orsix, Interpreter.