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That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not
an habitual resident on the reserve of the said Band of Indians, or interested in the
land mentioned in the said release or surrender.

That he is Secretary of the said Band of Indians, and entitled to vote at the
said meeting or council.

Sworn before me by the deponents, |
J. W. Jermyn and Fredk.|
Lamorandiére, at the Village of
Martin, in the County of ey
this 15th day of July, Al D.|
1886. |

Wm. BaRRETT,
Junior Judge Co. Bruce.
Recorded 5th October, 1886.
Mab 106, Kolio 519. i
L. A. CATELLIER, e
Dep. Registrar-General of Canada.

J. W. JERMYN,
Indian Agent.

No. 22%.

eeueues to Her Tuis InpENTURE, made the twenty-first day of July, in the
eS OP Grae, year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one,

sions © and D, con- between John Harris, of the Town of London, in the County of

taining sv acres, by Middlesex, in the District of London and Province of Canada,
John Harris and his

wife, in trust for Esquire, and Amelia Harris, wife of the said John Harris, of the
the Oneida Nation one part, and Her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, by the Grace
ge tndians. of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Treland,
Queen, Defender of the Faith, of the other part :

Witnesseth, that the said John Harris for and in consideration of the sum of
three hundred pounds of lawful money of the Province of Canada to him in hand
paid at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is
bereby acknowledged, hath granted, bargained, sold, aliened, transferred, surrendered
and yielded up, and by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, alien, transfer, sur-
render and yield up, unto Her said Majesty, Her heirs and successors, all and singular
those certain parcels or tracts of land and premises situate, lying and being in the
Township of Delaware, in the County of Middlesex, in the London District and Prov-
ince aforesaid, containing together by admeasurement four hundred acres, be the
same more or less, and being known as lots numbers eighteen in Blocks C and D,
in the said Township of Delaware ; which said lot eighteen in Block C is butted and
bounded as follows, that is to say :

Commencing at the easterly corner of the said last mentioned lot at the allow-
ance for road between lots numbers eighteen and nineteen ; then south seventy de-
grees, west sixty-seven chains fifty links, more or less, to the allowance for road
between Blocks C and B; then north twenty degrees, west twenty-nine chains eighty
links, more or less ;_ then north seventy. degrees, east sixty-seven chains fifty links ;
then south twenty degrees, east twenty-nine chains eighty links, more or less, to
the place of beginning ; and which said lot eighteen in Block D is butted and bounded
as follows, that is to say :

Commencing at the easterly corner of said last mentioned lot at the allowance
for road between lots numbers eighteen and nineteen; then south seventy degrees,
west sixty-seven chains fifty links to the allowance for road between Blocks D and
C; then north twenty degrees, west twenty-nine chains eighty links; then north
seventy degrees, east sixty-seven chains fifty links ; then south twenty degrees, east
twenty-nine chains eighty links, more or less, to the place of beginning.

Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances
thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions,
remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof, and of every part and
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parcel thereof ; and also all the estate, right, title, interest, trust, claim, property and
demand whatsoever, either at law or in equity of him the said John Harris, of, in, to
cy out of the same premises, and of every part and. parcel thereof.

lo have and to hold the said parcels or tracts of land and premises with the
appurtenances unto Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors forever, freed and dis-
charged from all and all manner of incumbrances whatsoever, in trust, nevertheless,
to and for the use, benefit and behoof of the Oneida Nation of Indians, now settled
in the said Township of Delaware, and their posterity forever; and we said John
Harris, for himself, his heirs, exeecuto?s and administrators, doth covenant, grant and
agree to and with Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, that he, the said John
Harris, is the true, lawful and rightful owner of all and singular the said parcels or
tracts of land and premises, and every part and parcel thereof, and now is lawfully
and rightfully seized in his own right of a good, sure, perfect, absolute and indefeasi-
ble estate of inheritance in free simple of and in the premises above mentioned ; and
further, that he, the said John Harris and his heirs, and all and every other person or
persons, and his and their.eheirs having or lawfully claiming any estate, right, title,
trust or interest of, in or to the said premises above mentioned and described, or any
part thereof, by, from or under him, them or any of them shall and will at all times
hereafter when required by Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, make, do and
execute all and every such farther and other lawful acts, conveyances and assurances
in the law for the better and more perfect granting, assuring, conveyiug, surrender-
ine and yielding up of all and singular the premises above mentioned and described,
with the appurtenances, unto Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, as Her Majesty,
Her heirs or successors, Her or their counsel learned in the law, may be reasonably
devised, advised or required.

And this Indenture also further witnesseth, that the said Amelia Harris, wife
of the above named John Harris, for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings
of lawful money aforesaid to her, by Her said Majesty, in hand paid, av or before the
ensealing and delivery hereof, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowlvdged, hath
remised, released, and forever relinquished, and by these presents doth remise,
release and forever relinquish unto Her said Majesty, Her heirs and successors, upon
the trust and for the use aforesaid, all and’ all manner of dower and right or title
of dower whatsoever which the said Amelia, in the event of surviving the said John
Harris, her husband, might or of right ought to have, claim or demand in, to and
out of the said parcels or tracts of land and premises above mentioned, and. every
part and parcel thereof, and all manner of action or actions, and writ or writs of
dower whatsoever.

In Witness WuereEoF, the said John Harris and Amelia, his wife, have to these.

presents set their hands and affixed their seals the day and year first hereinbefore
written, and in the fifth year of Her Majesty’s reign.

Signed, sealed and delivered) JOHN HARRIS, [L.S.]
in presence of °- ( _ AMELIA HARRIS” [L.8.]

Henry C. R. Beecuer, of London, aforesaid,
Attorney-at-Law.

Received at the time of execution of the within Indenture the sum of three
hundred pounds, being the full consideration in the said Indenture named to be paid
to me.

In presence of ]

Henry C. R. BeEecter.{ JOHN HARRIS.

DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR CANADA,
Orrawa, 24th March, 1868.

I hereby certify that the foregoing surrender has this day been duly entered
on the records of this office in Lib. K. M., Folio 27.

HECTOR L. LANGEVIN,

Secretary of State and Registrar of Canada.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF SratE OF CANADA,
Recistrar’s BrancH, Orrawa, 8th January, 1887.
- T hereby certify the within to be a true and faithful copy of the record of the

original surrender as entered in Lib. K.M., Fol. 27.
L. A. CATELLIER,
Dep. Registrar-General of Canada.

No. 228.

Tits Inpenturr, made the ninth day of October, in the year

Deed of surrender E
from Charles Baby of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ferty, between

‘og Majesty Charles Baby, of the Town of Sandwich, in the western district of
at the Province of Upper Canada, Esquire, of the one part, and Her
Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, of the other part.

Whereas, by a certain agreement lately made by and between the said Charles
Baby, of the one part, and the Principals of the Oneida Nation, by their Agent, of the
other part, and ratified and approved of by the Chief Superintendent of Indian
Affairs in this Province, the said Charles Baby, for and in consideration of the sum
of one hundred and fifty pounds of lawful money of the Province aforesaid, did agree
to grant, bargain, sell and convey to or to the use of or in trust for them, the said
Principals of the Oneida Nation, a certain parcel or tract of land and premises,
situate, lying and being in the Township of Delaware, in the London District, and
Province aforesaid, which is hereinafter more particularly described.

And whereas in the making of the agreement for the selling and conveying of
the said land and premises as aforesaid it was desired that the said land and. pre-
mises should be conveyed to them by a deed of surrender to Her Majesty, Her heirs
and successors, in trust for them the said Oneida Nation.

And whereas the said Charles Baby did then and there agree to execute such
surrender as requested, and is now desirous of perfecting the said agreement and
executing a surrender of the said land and premises unto Her Majesty, Her heirs
and successors, as agreed upon as aforesaid.

Now this Indenture witnesseth, that the said Charles Baby, for and in considera-
tion of the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds of lawful money of the Proviace
aforesaid to him in hand paid at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents,
the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath granted, bargained, sold, delivered,
transferred, surrendered and yielded up, and by these presents doth grant, bargain,
sell, alien, transfer, surrender and yield up_unto Her Majesty, Her heirs and suc-
cessors forever, all that certain lot, pareel or tract of land lying and being in the
Township of Delaware, in the London District, in the Province aforesaid, containing
two hundred acres, be the same more or less, and known as lot number “twenty,”

in Concession CO of the said township, which said parcel or tract of land is butted
and bounded as follows, that 1s to say: Commencing in front of the said Concession
C, at the north-west angle of the said lot; then north seventy degrees, east sixty-
seven chains fifty links, more or less, to allowance for road in rear of said concession ;
then south twenty degrees, east twenty-nine chains eighty links, to the southernmost
limit of said lot, then south seventy degrees, west sixty-seven chains fifty links, more
or less, to allowance for road in front of said concession; then north twenty degrees,
west twenty-nine chains eighty links, more or less, to the place of beginning.

Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances
thereto belonging, or in anywise appertaining, and the reversion and the reversions,
remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof, and all the estate, right,
title, interest, claim and demand of him the said Charles Baby of, in, to or owt of

the same, and every part and parcel thereof.
To have and to hold the same, with the appurtenances, to Her Majesty, Her heirs

and successors, freed and discharged from all encumbrances whatsoever, in trust,