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tioned, assembled at a meeting of such band or tribe, summoned for that purpose,
according to their rules, and entitled to vote thereat.
G. W. LEGGATT,
Judge County Court, County of Essex.

FROOME TALFOURD,
Visiting Superintendent Indian Affairs.

PROVINCIAL REGISTRAR’S OFFICE,
QUEBEC, Ist June, 1863.

I hereby certify that this surrender has been duly entered on the records of this
office in Lib. O.S. Surrenders to the Crown, Folio 231, under the authority of an.
Order in Council dated 15th May, 1863.

WM. KENT,

Dep. Prov. Registrar.
Department of Crown Lands.
Entered in Letters Received, Bk. 19, p. 365.
Quebec, Ist June, 1863.

No. 98.

At a General Council of all the Chiefs, Principal Men and adults belonging to the
Sarnia Band, held this sixth day of November, 1862, it was decided by vote to sur-
render to the Department the merchantable oak and pine timber standing on the
unoccupied portions of the reserve in the Township of Sarnia, and also on the reserve
in the Township of Bosanquet (Sables.)

Im order that the same may be sold and the proceeds invested in the usual
manner, the interest produced thereby to be divided with our other moneys half
yearly.

Given under our hands this 6th day of November, 1862.

On behalf of the Sarnia Indians.
DAVID B. WAWANOSH, Head Chief.
FROOME TALFOURD, V.S.J D.,
On behalf of the Indian Department.

To all to whom these presents shall come we, the Sachems and Chief Warriors
of the Six Nations Indians, inhabiting and owning the lands situate, lying and being
on the Grand or River Ouse, in the County of Haldimand, in the Province of Upper
Canada, send greeting.

Whereas His late Majesty did by a certain instrument bearing date the twenty-
fifth day of October, in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
eighty-four, under the hand and seal of Sir Frederick Haldimand, then Governor of
Quebec, allot and grant unto us upon the banks of the said river running into Lake
Erie, six miles deep from each side of the said river, beginning at Lake Erie. and
extending in that proportion to the head of the said river. And whereas the
Honorable William Claus, of the Town of Niagara, in the District of Niagara, hath
been for the last thirty years our trustee, and hath during all that time conducted
and managed our affairs with great advantage to our interests, and made profitably
available our money without any compensation from us whatever,

And we the said Sachems and Chief Warriors willing to attribute such dis-
‘interested conduct to feelings which have characterized his ancestors, Sir William
Johnson and Sir John Johnson, towards our nations, beside his father who served
with us during the whole of the French war as well as that of the rebellion, and
being more particularly able to be our friends from speaking our languages, and who
together with himself have resided with and amongst us and guarded our interests

with parental solicitude.
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