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Thames. Canada West, the thirteenth day of February, in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

Signed and sealed in our presence, JOHN RILEY, [L.8.]
being read and explained: { MiskoKkoMon’s (totem), [L.S.]
T. B. Crencn, Supt. Indian Affairs. JAMES MUSKUNUNJE’S (totem), [L.8.]
Perer Jones, Wesleyan Missionary. CHICKEN MusSKUNUNJE'S (totem),
Rost. F. Keays, J.D. [LS].
Henry C. Hoac, Schoolmaster. JOHN TUMMAGO’s (totem), [L.8.]
JOSEPH CANOTUNG’S (totem), [L.8.]
EYAUBANSE’S (totem), [L.8.]

CapraIn 'THOMAS’ Gotan [L.8.]
JoHN Munpiway’s (totem), [1L.8.]
Certified.
J. (8. CLENCH, Vaseivae [L.S.]

No. 584e.

We, the Chippewa Chiefs of the River Thames, in full Council assembled, do
humbly lay before our Great Father the Governor General for his consideration the
following proposals: That in anticipation ‘of the benefits which will arise from the
establishment of an Industrial School upon the Indian Reserve, in the Township of
Carradoec, in the London District of the Province of Canada, to grant by lease or
license of occupation (under such regulations and upon such conditions as in our
Great Father’s wisdom may seem meet), to the Canadian Wesleyan Methodist Mis-
sionary Society in connection with the British Conference, the following piece or parcel
of land, being a portion of our reserve in the township, district and Province aforesaid,

which may be known as follows: $
Commencing on the east side of Colborne Road on Westbrook’s Hill at a post —
planted at the distance of one chain and seventy-five links on a course south five g
degrees and forty minutes west from the top of the said Westbrook Hill; then south ~
five degrees and forty minutes west forty-five chains ninety-seven and a-half links,
more or less. to within the distance of forty-five links from the edge of the ravine on
the east side of the said Colbbrne Road; then south eighty-four degrees and twenty
minutes east thirty-five chains and eighty-four links, more or iess, to the top of the
hank of the River Thames; then north ten degrees west three chains; then north ~
eight degrees east eleven chains fifty links; then north twenty-five degrees east |
thirteen chains seventy links; then north eight degrees and forty-five minutes east
‘echt chains: then north seventeen degrees thirty minutes west eleven chains ;
then north twenty-nine degrees west four chains twenty-three links; then north
forty-three degrees west six chains forty-nine links; then north eighty-one degrees
west seven chains twenty links; then south sixty-eight degrees west six chains,
or less, to the north-east angle of the ground set off for the Industrial School; ;

then south twenty-two degrees east four chains forty-four links and a-half; then
south sixty-eight degrees west nine chains; then north twenty-two degrees west
four chains forty-four and a-half links, more or less, to the north-west angle of said
eround set off for the said school; then north eighty-four degrees thirty minutes
west seven chains seventy-nine links, more or less, to the place of beginning, con-
taining by admeasurement 1774 acres. Again commencing at a post planted on the
t side of the said Colborne Road at the distance of two chains and seventy-five
links from the top of said Westbrook’s Hill, measured on the east side of the said —
© srt * Road; then north eighty-four degrees and forty minutes west twenty-two
iains and fifty links; then south eighty-four degrees and twenty minutes east ten
mae then north five degrees and forty minutes east twenty-two chains and fifty
links, more or less, to the place of beginning; containing by admeasurement 224
acres, making together with the above described two hundred acres, be the same

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more or less, and which said two hundred acres of land adjoins the plot of ground

appointed for the Industrial School.
It is proposed by the measures which we have herein advanced to benefit the

Tndian children by the influence of a model farm cultivated under the direction and
superintendence of those place
of the Indians generally.

Ix Testimony WHEREOF, we, the said Chiefs, have hereunto set our names at
Munsee Town on Thames, the thirteenth day of February, 1849.

Siened in our presence, being first JOHN RILEY, [L.S.]
read and explained: MiskoKoMon’s (totem), pote
J. B. Orencu, Supt. of Indn. Affairs. James Muskunungie’s (totem), [L.S.]
Rost. F. Keays, I.D. CHICKEN MUSKUNUNJIE’S (totem),
Perer Jones, Wesleyan Missionary. RES
Hexry C. Hoce, Schoolmaster. Jounx» TumMaco’s (totem), [L.8.]
. JosEPH CANOTUNG’S (totem), [L.8.]
EYAWBANSE’S (totem), EL-Sal
CapTrain THOMAS’S (totem), [L.sca]
Joun Munprway’s (totem), bssey
Certified.
jee CLENCH; V.S81.A:, [L.8.]
58id.

We, the Chippewa Chiefs of the River Thames, in full Council assembled, do
humbly lay before our Great Father the Governor General, for his consideration, the
following proposal, that in consequence of the benefits which have been conferred
upon the Indians at Lower Munsee by the exertions of the Rev. Richard Hood, Mis- |
sionary of the Church of England, whose zeal for the Indian’s welfare is witnessed
by a handsome brick church which he has erected upon our land, and also a dwell-
ing house, and he being desirous that the ten acres upon which the dwelling house
is erected, and also the school lot, should be secured to the Society to which he
belongs, we, the Chiefs, consent to meet his wishes, and have no objection to our
Great Father being pleased to grant a lease or license of occupation for the following
pieces of land situate, lying and being at Lower Munsee, in the Township of Carradoc,
in the London District, of the Province of Canada, and may be known as follows :—

Beginning at the north-westerly angle of the Church ground; then north sixteen
degrees west sixteen chains thirteen links; then north eighty-five degrees east SIX
chains thirty-two and a-half links; then south sixteen degrees east sixteen chains
thirteen links, more or less, to the rear limit of the Church ground; then south
eighty-five degrees west six chains thirty-two and a-half links, more or less, to the
place of beginning, containing ten acres, more or less, being the Parsonage lot.

Description of the School Lot -Commencing at the water’s edge of the River
Thames, on the east side of the mouth of the Creck called the Saw-Mill Creek, being
at the distance of fifty-four chains and sixty-seven links, on a course north forty-five
degrees east from the allowance for road between the Townships of the Carradoc and
Ejikfrid; then north-westerly and north-easterly along the channel of the said Creek
against the stream forty-seven chains and twenty-five links, more or less, to a certain
maple-tree (marked); then south seventy-two degrees and thirty minutes east two
chains and seventy-four links, then south fifty-two degrees east twenty-four chains
and eighty-six links, more or less, to the water’s edge of the River Thames; then
south-westerly along the edge of the said river with the stream twenty chains and
twenty links more or less, to the place of beginning; containing fifty-seven and a
half acres, be the same more or less, being for the use of the School Master, and no

other purpose whatsoever.
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