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No. 164.

d Principal Men of the Band of Indians owning
No. 16 (sixteen), and deseribed in the treaty
in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight

hundred and fifty, with the Chiefs and Principal Men of the Ojibeway Tribe of
Indians inhabiting and claiming the eastern and northern shores of Lake Huron by
the Honourable William Benjamin Robinson on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of
Great Britain and Ireland as Parry Island, being situated at Parry Sound, on the
north shore of Lake Huron, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada,
and laid down on a plan by J ohn Houghton Dennis, Provineidg] Land Surveyor,
dated 9th September, 1850, on file in the head office’of Indian Affairs at Ottawa, in
“full council of our said Band assembled at Parry Island on this 24th day of Sep-
tember, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, do
hereby consent and agree to surrender, and by this Instrument do surrender to Her
Gracious Majesty aforesaid, Her heirs and successors, in trust, to be sold for the
joint benefit of our Band aforesaid, on such terms and conditions as to Her said
Majesty’s Government of Canada shall seem proper, the whole of the merchantable
timber on our said reserve. The entire proceeds of the sale of said timber to be
invested for our sole joint benefit and for the benefit of our descendants for all time
to come, in such manner as to the said Government of Canada shall seem to be most

conducive to the interests of our said Band. |

In Wirness WHEREOF, we the undersigned Chiefs and Principal Men of the Band
aforesaid, and as representing the entire said Band, have hereunto set our hands and
affixed our seals on the day and in the year first above written, in the presence of our
Superintendent, William Plummer, Esquire, who has been duly authorized to accept

and approve of the said surrender.

We, the undersigned Chief an
the tract of land known as Reserve
effected on the ninth day of September,

PacammacanBoucH, Chief, x. LLSe
QursHEGWAMEE, 2nd Chief, x [L.8.]
WAINDAMEYANCE, x eS.)
SA-MAIBAH, X,, ideas. |
MAISH-KE-GAH-BON, xy (8.
AW-GE-JAH-KONCE, x [is]
SHAH-WON, x (os
MENO-MINEE, x. olsos|
SAUG-HUTAB, xo Sd
OGAH-BAIGEZHIK-GOO, x {is

JoHN BAHGAHMIGABOW, x [isa

On behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, I hereby
accept the surrender above made by the Chiefs and Principal Men of the Band
owning the reserve called “Parry Island Reserve,” at Parry Sound, on the north

shore of Lake Huron, of the merchantable timber on the said reserve.

Wm. PLUMMER,
Supt. and Comr. of Indian Affairs.

No. 165.

nts, that we, the Chief and Principal Men ot the

Band of Indians owning the Indian Reserve lands at Garden River, in the Province
of Ontario, being this day assembled in council, have agreed to surrender and yield
ious Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and successors forever, all

the right, claim and title which we possess of, in and to a block of land in the Town
street to the water edge, and bounded

west by Ryan street, as laid down on

Know aALu Mreneby THESE PRESE
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the plan attached hereto, with the object of the block of land in question being sold
to Messrs. McRae, Craig & Company, for the purpose of erecting a steam saw-mill
thereon, the proceeds of such sale to be invested for the benefit of the Garden River
Indians.

[x Wirness WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals at Garden River

this seventeenth day of April, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-two. .

his ;
Cuter AUGUSTIN, x [L.S.]
mark,
Josep LasacGr, ss. il
his
JAMES x  BorstNavtt, lasa]
mark.
his
THos. x SBoisrnavut, [L.8.]
mark. “
his
PETER x JONES, ess
mark.
his
GEORGE x AUGUSTIN, [ ess]
mark.
his
Pen x Lasace, [ibose]
mark.
his
THoMAS x AUGUSTIN, [L.S.]
mark.
his
JOSEPH x LASAGE, Poss]
mark. \
his j
CHARLES x LARoss, [L.8.]
mark.
his :
JARVIS x AUGUSTIN, [L.S.] Witness to marks, :
ar ak JOS. WILSON,
PETER x Ben, [L.S.] Ind. Commr.
mark.
his
JAMES x SHINGASE, ) poss
mark.
his
JOHN x CaBosa, [L.S.]
mark.
his
Moses x Boranasu, [L.8.]
mark.
his
WEY-A-MAH, x oss]
mark.
his
Dayson, x eS 4
mark. :
JOHN MUKATOKINNA, (es: |
his
JAHQUCHEWOSSOI, x ess]
mark. ES
Witu1aM Drim, x [L.S.]
his i ; }
Louis x STRINGCOACK, eS]
mark.
his
Frank x NINNITOSON, [L.S.]

mark.
Province OF ONTARIO,]
District or ALGOMA. +
oe W it; J

We, the undersigned do hereby certify that the above surrender of lands was
freely assented to at a council assembly for the purpose at Garden River, on the
seventeenth day of April, 1872, by a majority of Chiefs and Principal Men ot the
Band entitled to vote thereat. :

JOS. WILSON,
Indian Commr.
his
AUGUSTIN x Chef.
mark.

Sworn before me at Sault Ste. Marie, in ]
the District of Algoma, this seven-
teenth day of April, A.D., 1872.

And I certify that the deponent Augustin could not speak English, and I swore
Etienne Jollineau, of Sault Ste. Marie, to interpret the above affidavit to the said
Augustin, that the same was read over to him and interpreted to him by the said
Jollineau and the said deponent seemed to me to perfectly understand the same, and
jmade his mark thereto in my presence.

WALTER McCREA,
Judge of the District of Algoma.

No. 166.

We, the Chief Augustin and Principal Men, and members of the Garden River
indian Reserve, in council assembled this 15th day of November, 1877, hereby agree
to surrender to Her Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and successors forever, for th>
benefit of the public and the proprietors of the Victoria Mining Company, a sixty-
six foot road leading from a point dividing the Garden River Indian Reserve and the
portion of that reserve already surrendered by us, and running in a southerly direc-
tion to the banks of the River St. Mary, east of the Church of England school house,
the expenses in making such road to be borne by the said proprietors of the Victoria
Mining Company.

And any improvements throug’: which the said road may pass to be compen-
sated for by the said Victoria Mining Company to the party whose improvements
may be taken.

The said proprietors of the said Victoria Mining Company to commence cut-
ting a winter road so soon as the Indian Agent shall have granted thea permission.
Witness our hands and seals the day and year aforesaid :

Cuier AUGUSTIN, xa eSs|
PrQUETCHENENE, x [Se
Wm. KABMOSANA, x Pass]
PETER JONES, x HESS: ]
Wm. SHIBUTZOZIK, x LES.
Jno. Wrawoss, x [L.8.9
ALEX. WAHBONOSAI, xe (9. |
Wm. PEQUETCHENENE, a etic. |
JARVIS AUGUSTIN, |
CHARLES LAROSE, >i ES)
THomMaAs AUGUSTIN, x [lest]
WAIKIMAH, >: oe el 5-4
NAHQUHWAIWEEDON, x= eso]
GEORGE KABMOSA, x, ies
JOSEPH BELL, x [iL.S-]
IKKABMOSANA, = [LS]