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SHABOQUI, (Chippewas.
Hayquossgav, |Hagle Tribe.
MISQUIEAWPAWN,
TICKCOUOEGOSSOW.

A true copy.
D. W. SMITH,
Secretary to the Land Office Board,
District of Hesse.

Extracted from the Quebec Council Book, pages 404, 400, 406.

No. £17.

SurRENDER by Chief Shawbokezhik and Band of the 10th Indian Reserve, on Lake
Nipissing, in the Province of Ontario, to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, all the
merchantable timber contained on the said reserve, to be sold for their benefit.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE Presents, that we, the undersigned Chief and Principal
Men of the said reserve, in the Province of Ontario, for and acting on behalf of the
whole people of our said tribe, do hereby surrender and yield up unto Our Sovereign
Lady the Queen, and Her heirs and successors for ever, all the merchantable timber
on the Indian reserve known and marked on the plan or map as No. 10, situated on
Lake Nipissing, in the Province of Ontario aforesaid. To have and to hold the same
unto Her Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and successors for ever, in trust, to sell and
convey the same to such person or persons, and upon such terms as the Government of
the Dominion of Canada shall or may deem most conducive to the interest of us, the
said Chief and Principal Men, and of our people, in all time to come. And upon the
further condition that the moneys received for the value thereof shall, after deducting
the usual proportion for expenses of management, be placed at interest, and that the
interest money so accruing from such investment shall be paid periodically to us and
our descendants. And we, the said Chief and Principal Men of the aforesaid reserve,
do, on behalf of our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confirm, and promise
to ratify and confirm whatever the said Government of said Dominion may do or cause
to be lawfully done in connection with the disposal and sale of the said timber.

In Witness Wurreror, we, the said Chief and Principal Men, have set our hands
‘and affixed our seals unto this instrument.

Done at Lake Nipissing, in the Province of Ontario, on the fourteenth day of
August, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

Signed and sealed and delivered) SHAWBOKEZHIK, Chief, x ayy Ebsse

in the presence of \ NISH-E-NAH-BAI, Sub-Chief, x [L.S.]
Wm. PLUMMER, JOSEPH KEAH-KE-WE-GAH-BOW-

Visitg. Supt. Com. Indian Affatrs. WICK, x [L.8.]

McGrecor IRONSIDE, SE-MO, X [L.8.]

Clerk and Intexpreter I.D. CAH-DO, x [L.8.]

FrANcoIs NAHTODWANEE, or \

FRANCOIS. WAHSAIKEZHIK, { * [L.S.]
ALIXER COMMANDANT, X LES]
PE-NES-SE, X (PES:
JOs. KEAK-KE-WE-GAH-BOW- (

WICK, or JOS. COMMANDANT, § x [LS]
JEAN Bre. SHAWBOKEZHIK, X PES]
FRANCOIS GOULAIS, X [L.S.]
TEGWOB, x BERSSIE
NAITUMEGAHBOW, X [L.8.]
BuzwaH, x [L.8.]

It is hereby agreed by Wm. Plummer, Superintendent and Commissioner Indian
Affairs, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen and the, Government of the Dominion
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of Canada, who desire to deal liberally with all Indian tribes or bands, that the said
Government of Canada shall dispose of or sell the merchantable timber on the Indian
-eserve Known and marked on the map or plan as No. 10, situated on Lake Nipissing,
in the Province of Ontario, for the benefit of Chief Shawbokezhik and his band, and
for their descendants. And that the said Government also hereby agree to pay 32 cents
for each saw-log cut and taken from the reserve, and a bonus, besides of ten dollars per
superficial mile, or a sum of eight hundred and eighty in leu thereof, and a rental of
eighty-eight dollars per annum so long as the Government shall see fit to retain the
right to sell the timber. The amount aceruing from these sources shall be placed at
interest, and, after deducting the usual proportion for the expense of management,
shall be divided periodically among Shawbokezhik and his band and their descendants.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal.
WM. PLUMMER,

Visiting Supt. and Commissioner.
Done at Lake Nipissing, this fourteenth day of August, 1868.

No. 118.

We. Thomas Mercer Jones, of the Town of Goderich, County of Huron, Huron
District and Province of Canada, and Frederick Widder, of the City of Toronto,
County of York, Home District and Province aforesaid, Esquires, the attorneys of
the Canada Company, incorporated under and by virtue of an Act made and passed
in the sixth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, entitled: “ An
Act to enable His Majesty to grant to a Company, to be incorporated by charter, to
be called ‘The Canada Company,’ certain lands in the Province of Upper Canada,
and to invest the said Company with certain powers and privileges, and for other
purposes relating thereto,” being constituted and appointed such attorneys by virtue
and in pursuance of an Act passed in the ninth year of the reign of His Majesty King
George the Fourth, entitled: “An Act to alter and amend an Act for enabling His
Majesty to grant to a Company, to be incorporated by charter, to be called ‘ The Canada
Company,’ certain lands in the Province of Upper Canada,” do hereby, in considera-
tion of the sum of eighty-seven pounds ten shillings lawful money of the Province of
Canada, to us, as such attorneys, as aforesaid, paid by Samuel P. Jarvis, Chief Super-

intendent of Indian Affairs, grant and release, yield up and surrender unto Our.

Sovereign Lady Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, and to Her heirs and successors, all that
certain parcel or tract of land, situate as follows: composing lot fifteen, in the second
concession of the Township of Alnwick, County of Northumberland, Newcastle Dis-
trict and Province aforesaid, containing by admeasurement two hundred acres of land,
be the same more or less, and all the right, title and interest of the said Canada Com-
pany to and in the same and every part thereof. To have and to hold unto Our said

Lady the Queen, Her heirs and successors for ever in trust, for the sole use and benefit
of the Messessaga Tribe of Indians, known and described as of Kingston and the Bay

of Quinté.

Ix Wirness Wuereor, we, the said Thomas Mercer Jones and Frederick Widder

have hereunto subscribed our hands as attorneys of the said Canada Company, and
affixed our seal of office at the City of Toronto, in the Province of Canada, this eighth
day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-
one.

Signed, sealed and delivered in

presence of : THOMAS MERCER JONES,  [1L.8.]
DonaLp McDONALD, FREDERICK WIDDER. [L.8.]
THos. COLLIER.
We hereby certify that this is a correct copy of a deed recorded in the Canada

Company’s office, Deed Book No. 13, folio 39.
ALFRED WILLSON,

HERBERT HAMILTON,