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The Committee recommend that the surrender be accepted, and be enrolled in
ihe usual manner in the offices of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and of the
Provincial Registrar, respectively.

Certified.
WM. H. LEE,
C7 H.C.

To the Honourable
The Provincial Registrar,

&e., &e., &e.

| PRovINCIAL REGISTRARS OFFICE,
Toronto, 5th March, 1856.

I hereby certify that tne foregoing surrender, together with the Minute in
Council hereto annexed, have been respectively entered upon the records of this
office, in Lib. C.S., Folio, 156.

THOS. AMIOT,
Deputy Registrar.

Crown LAND DEPARTMENT,
Toronto, 20th February, 1857.

Entered upon the records of this Department in i. W. No, 39.

No. 82.

To all to whom these presents shall come:

We, the undersigned Chiefs and Warriors, on behalf of the people of the Newash
Band of Chippewa Indians residing at Owen Sound, send greeting.

Whereas we and our people having the fullest confidence in the paternal care
and good intentions of our kind Father the Governor General towards all his Indian
children, and foreseeing the great benefits that we and our posterity are likely to
derive from the surrender of a large portion of our reserve, in the year of Our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, we have, after mature consideration, in
several full councils held at our village of Newash, arrived at the conclusion that it
will be to our advantage to place at the disposal of Our Fatner the Governor General
the land upon which we now reside, commonly known as the Newash or Owen
Sound Reserve, in order that he may cause the same to be sold for our benefit. Be
it therefore known that we, Peter Jones Kegedonce and George A. Tabegwun, Sachem
Chiefs, John Thomas Wabatick, John Snake, Abner Elliot, John Jonnson and Charles
Keeshick, Interpreter, Councillors and Principal Men of the Newash Band, for and
on behalf of our said tribe, do hereby surrender, make over and convey to Her
Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs and successors, all and singular
that certain tract or parcel of land and premises situate, lying and being on the
westerly side of the Owen Sound in the Georgian Bay, known as the Newash Reserve,
and containing about ten thousand acres of land, be the same, more or less, which
tract of land is butted and bounded and otherwise known and described as follows,
viz.: On the north-east by the water of Owen Seund, on the north-west by the head
line road between the seventeenth and eighteenth concessions of the Township of
Keppel and the southerly boundary of the lands lately occupied by the Caughnawaga

Tndians, on the south-west by a straight line as represented by Mr. Rankin’s plan of
survey, being the boundary between said reserve and the said Township of Keppel,
and on the south-east by the head line between concession A of Keppel and the strip
of lands surrendered in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

To have and to hold the said land and premises, with all and singular its
hereditaments and appurtenances, to Her said Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs and
successors forever, to the intent and purpose that Her said Majesty, her heirs and

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successors, may sell and dispose of the same for the sole use and benefit and behoof
of us. the aforesaid Newash Band of Indians and our posterity forever, subject,
however, to such deductions for defraying the expense of survey and the subsequent
management of the sale of the land as are incidental by a general rule to all other
Indian lands, and also to tne following conditions, viz.:

ist. That so soon as the above named reserve shall be suld and we are required
to remove from it there shall be assigned to each Indian family, constituted as such
before the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty, a lot of twenty-five acres,
surveyed for the purpose, in our reserve at Cape Croker, exclusive occupation and
right of cultivation of such lot is thus assigned to each Indian family, so long as the
unity of the family is retained, but upon the breaking up of any such family or the
extinction of its males, or its separation from the tribe by migration it will be
competent for the Governor General to re-assign or reserve any lot so vacated for
the best advantage of the tribe at large.

2nd. That the sum of one thousand pounds shall be advanced from the proceeds
of the first sale of the aforesaid tract for the erection of frame dwelling houses at
Cape Croker, of dimensions similar to those we now oceupy at Newash, to be built
under the direction of the Indian Department, and that afterwards from three +o
five houses shall be erected annually at said place until each individual having a
right to a house shall be supplied, the expense of these last mentioned to be borne
from our annuity or interest funds.

3rd. That each individual of the tribe now participating in our annuity shall
receive ten pounds from the proceeds of the first instalment paid on the land to be
sold. and the tribe shall further be entitled hereafter to receive from the principal
arising from such sale (should circumstances render it necessary) a sum suflicient to
huild a church or for such other permanent improvement as the Governor General
may approve of.

4th. That one acre be reserved and set apart for a burying ground.

The foregoing arrangement must be and remain null and void to all intents and
purposes, unless it receive tne assent of His Excellency the Governor General in
Council.

Ix Testimony Wuereor, we, the aforesaid Chiefs and Councillors, have hereunto
affixed our names and totems in signification of our assent and coneurrence to the
foregoing surrender, at the City of Toronto, this ninth day of February, in the year of
Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.

Read, explained through the inter-) R. T. PENNEFATHER,
preter, signed, sealed and de- Supt. Genl., (i.8-]}
livered in presence of us S. Y. CHESLEY, [L.8.]

MIcHAEL TURNOR, PeTeR JONES KEGEDONCE, (totem) [L.S.]
W. R. Bart Lett,

E. J. CuHEstey. Grorce ARTHUR TABEGWUN, (totem) [L.S.}

e Joun Tuomas WasaTick, (totem) [L.Sj

JoHN SNAKE, (totem) [L.8.]
ABNER ELLIOTT, [L.S.7

JOHN x JOHNSON, [L.8.]
CHARLES KEESHICK, [L.S.]

Copy of a Report of a Committze of the Honourable the Executive Council, dated the
18th February, 1857, approved by His Excellency the Governor General in Coun-
cil on the same day.

On a report of the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs submitting for
ratification by Your Excellency in Council a surrender to the Crown dated 9th
February, 1857, from the Chiefs and Councillors of the Newash Band of Chippewa
Indians residing at Owen Sound, in the Georgian Bay, of the tract or parcel of land

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and premises situate on the westerly side of the Owen Sound, known as the Newash
Reserve, and containing about ten thousand acres of land, upon certain conditions set
forth in tne deed of surrender.

The Superintendent General submits for the reasons stated in his report that it
-would be for the advantage both of the Indians themselves and the country at large
to accept this surrender, with a view to the tract being immediately surveyed and
laid open for settlement.

The Committee recommend that the surrender be accepted and enrolled in the
offices of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and of the Provincial Registrar, with a
view to the tract being immediately surveyed and laid open for settlement, as
submitted by the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.

Certified.
WM. H. LEE,
OE CG:

To the Honourable
The Provincial Registrar,

&e., &e., &e.,

PROVINCIAL REGISTRAR’S OFFICE,
Toronto, 20th February, 1857.

I hereby certify that the within surrender, together with the Minute in Council
hereto annexed, have been entered upon the records of tnis office in Lib. C. S., Fols.

164, 165, 166, 167.
THOS. AMIOT,

pha Deputy Registrar.

Crown LAanp DEPARTMENT,
Toronto, 10th March, 1857.

Entered upon the records of this Department in... W. No, 39.

No. 83.

Tuis Inpenrurr showeth that we, the undersigned Chiefs and leading men of the
Deleware Nation of Indians residing on the Moravian Reserve, of tne first part, and
Richard Tneodore Pennefather, Thomas Worthington and Froome Talfourd, Esquires,
acting on behalf of the Indian Department, of the second part, have agreed and do
hereby agree that the aforesaid Indians of the first part surrender, yield and give up
to Her Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and successors, in trust, to be sold for their
benefit, the tract adjoining the River Thames, in the Townships of Zone and Orford,
known as the Moravian Reserve, on the following conditions :—

Firstly: That a sufficient quantity shall be reserved for the purpose of being
divided among the Indians of the first part in lots as shall be hereafter agreed upon.

Secondly: That each family to whom a farm shall be so allotted shall receive a
written document giving to them and their children exclusive occupation of such
lot.

Thirdly: That a house shall be built for each family who may be removed from
their present farms on the tract now surrendered.

Fourthly: Any Indian family so removed snall receive the value of their

improvements, as appraised by a competent party.
 Fifthly: The whole proceeds of the sale of the tract now surrendered shall,.
after deducting the expenses incurred in carrying out the above recited conditions,
be held in trust for the benefit of the Indians of the first part, and their children,
for ever.

Sixthly: Tne interest so arising shall be payable half yearly to the Indians of
the first part.

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