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No. 67.

To all whom these presents shall come—GREETING.

Know ye, that we, the undersigned Chiefs of the Chippewa Tribe of Indians
residing at Saugeen and at Owen Sound, have surrendered and do hereby surrender,
on behalf of our said tribe, and with their entire knowledge and consent, unto Her
Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria and Her sucessors, all and singular that
certain tract or parcel of land and premises situate, lying and being in the Counties
of Grey and Bruce, in the Province of Canada, and composed of the southerly part
of the lands commonly called and known by the name of the Saugeen Tract, which
is bounded on the south by Lake Huron and the Huron District, and on the north
by the Georgian Bay, and comprised within the following limits, that 1s to say:
Commencing on the present southern limit of said Indian tract at the intersection
thereof by the easterly side of the allowance for road between the fourth and fifth
concessions of the Township of Derby, being about three miles westerly from the
Indian Village of Neywash; thence north nine degrees west forty chains, statute
measure, to a post to be planted; thence south seventy-six degrees fifteen minutes
west, or parallel with the said southerly line of limit of the said Indian lands, twelve
hundred chains, or to within about two miles of the Indian Village of Saugeen;
thence south nine degrees east forty chains to the said southern present limit of the
said Indian lands; thence north seventy-six degrees and fifteen minutes east twelve
hundred chains to the place beginning, containing by admeasurement four thousand
and eight hundred acres of land. To have and to hold the said tract of land and its
appurtenances, unto Her said Majesty Queen Victoria and Her successors for ever,
in trust for the purpose of being sold to the best advantage, and the proceeds thereof
to be invested in such a fund or funds as the Governor General or other person
administering the Government of Canada for the time being may direct, for the
benefit of our said tribe and their posterity.

In TEstIMoNY. WHEREOF, we, the said undersigned Chiefs, together with the Prin-
cipal Men or Warriors of our said tribe, have hereunto affixed our respective seals and
totems in signification of our signatures and deliberate and voluntary act and deed,
this second day of September, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred

and fifty-one.

Read and explained in open Council at Jacop METEGOB, (totem) [L.8.]
Owen Sound. Signed, sealed and Aux. MApwayosH, (totem [L.S.]
delivered to Thomas G. Anderson, | JOHN KEWAYUAHWON, (totem [L.S8.]
Superintendent in the Indian Depart-} JoHN MANEDOWoB, (totem) [L.S.]
ment, on behalf of Her Majesty! JoHn WAHSAGEZHIG, (totem) [1.8.]
Queen Victoria and Her successors, | JosePpH R. JAMES, (totem) [L.S.]
in presence of us : J Joun T. WABBABDICK, (totem) [L.S.]

JOHN JONES, (totem) [L.8.]

C. Rankine, D.P.S. THos. WAHBAHDICK, (totem) [LS.]

JOHN FROST, JOHN SNAKE, (totem) [L.8.]

Francis ASSIKINNEK, Interpreter. GrorGE RYERSON, (totem) oes

Davip Sawyer, Interpreter. Gro. ARTHUR TABEGUM, (totem) [L.S.]
Certified,

T. G. Anverson, S.1.A.

PROVINCIAL REGISTRAR’S OFFICE,
QueBEC, 19th February, 1852.

I certify that the within Surrender has this day been entered upon the records

of this office in Lib. C. S., Folio 47.
THOS. AMIOT,

Deputy Registrar.
in treaty text but not in emma's spread sheet 
-PA nov 6 2022