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No. 196.

Know att MEN By THESE PRESENTS, that we, Chief Augustin Shingwauk and
Principal Men and Members of the Band of Indians known as “ Augustin’s Band,” and
of which the said Augustin Shingwauk is-at present the Chief, residing on or in the
neighbourhood of the Garden River Indian Reserve, in the District of Algoma, in
the Province of Ontario, for and in consideration of the benefit to be derived there-
from, do hereby grant, release, surrender and yield up to Her Most Gracious Majesty
Queen Victoria, Her heirs, successors and assigns forever, in trust for our benefit,
that certain tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being within the said Garden
River Indian Reserve, containing three hundred (300) acres of land, be the same
more or less, and which said tract now intended to be surrendered may be described
as being embraced within the following limits, that is to say : Commencing at the
post planted at the north-easterly angle of said reserve, as laid down on a map of
said reserve, of record in the Department of the Honourable Superintendent-General
of Indian Affairs for Canada (under treaty of September 9th, 1850); thence along
the northern boundary line of said reserve in a north-westerly direction one hun-
dred and thirty (130) chains; thence southerly one hundred and twenty (120) chains,
to Echo River; thence along the northern shore of said Echo River and of Echo
Lake to the place of beginning, as designated by annexed plan.

To have and to hold unto Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs, successors
and assigns in trust, as aforesaid, forever.

In Witness WuHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seal at Garden River

Indian Reserve this sixth day of September, in the year of Our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-two (1882).

Signed, sealed and delivered) his
in the presence of Wm. Van| AUGUSTIN x SHINGWAUK, [L.8.]
Abbott, Indian Lands Agent, | mare. he
having been first read over,( PEQUETCHENENE, x [L.8.]
explained and interpreted to| : mark.
. 1S
the said Band. J Louis x Pinu, nes
mark.
JOHN. AUGESTA, [L.S.]
his
FRANK X CLARK, . PES]
mark.
his
CHARLEY x Biron, tess
mark, .
his
JOSEPH BELL, x Baas)
mark.
his
JOSEPH x Biron, iss: |
mark,
his
MoD. x SAYER, [.S.]
mark. :
JOHN SAYER, ges]
PETER J. Biron, [L.S.]
Epwarp SAYER, Pisa]
his
JOHN x KABoosa, [sbase)
7 mark.
his
Joa x Biron, [L.8.]
mark.
his
THEO. x BOISONEAULT, BeaSh|

mark
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JARVIS AUGISTAN, [L.8.]
his
JACOB x WAIKEMOH, [L.8.]
mark.
his
WILLIAM x PAQUECHENNE, ogra. |
mark.
his
CHARLES x LAROSE, JR., [L.S.]
mark.
his
JOHN x ASKIN, [L.8.]
mark.
his }
Jor x SHEBOHYIK, [L.8.]
mark.
his
SHEBOHYIK, x © [L.8.]
mark.
his
JOHN x WEGWAUS, [L.8.]
mark.
GEORGE KABAOOS, [L.8.]
his :
ALEX. x WAHBONOSAI, [L.$.]
mark.
his
NAHGAHWEDON, xX [L.8.]
mark.
his
MICHEL x LASAGE, [L.8.]
mark.
his
Moses x LAROSE, [L.8.]
mark.
his
JOSEPH x LASAGE, [L.8.]
mark.
his
JOSEPH x LASAGE, S8R., BU RSE
his
mark.
MICHEL x CLARK, [L.8.]
mark.
Moses x BADOHWOHOSH, [L.8.]
his
WILLIAM x JONES, [L.8.]
mark.
his
GEORGE x SHINGWAUK, [L.S.]
mark.
his
Davip x CADOTTE, [L.8.]
mark.
his
SamuEL ALEXANDER Biron, x [L.8.]
mark.
his
CHARLES x Biron, JR., [L.8.]
mark.
JosePH x Biron, JR., [L.8.]
ANTOINE x BIRO, . [L.8.]
his
JOE x SAVARD, [L.8.]
mark.
his
PETER x BELL, [L.S.]

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District oF ALGOMA,
To Wit:

We, Augustin Shingwauk, of Garden River Indian Reserve, Chief of the Band of
Indians known as “ Shingwauk’s Band,” and William Van Abbott, of Soult Ste. Marie,
in the said District of Algoma, authorized by the Superintendent-General of Indian
Affairs to attend the council or meeting of Indians for the purpose of obtaining the
within surrender, severally make oath and gay that the within surrender was on the
— day of September made and assented to by the Band of Indians known as

“ Augustin’s” or “ Shingwauk’s Band,” at the said council or meeting held on the
said reserve the date aforesaid.

Sworn before me at Garden River In-]

dian Reserve by Augustin Pener nee Avaustin re SuinawauK, Chief.
and William Abbott, above named,} = apwilies

this sixth day of Septeraber, A.D.| Wm. VAN ABBOTT.

1882. J

Water McCrea,
Judge of the District of Algoma.

No; 197%,
OneipA, 18th August, 1882.

At a full meeting of Indian council held this day on the Oneida Indian Reserve,
which meeting was summoned according to our rules, and presided over by our
local agent, Thomas Gordon, Esq., for the purpose of taking into consideration the
advisability of granting to Mr. A. C. Stone and others the exclusive right to hunt
on our lands on payment of $250 for a term of five years, a resolution was unani-
mously passed granting the liberty, with a proviso, that any Indian living on and
being 4 member of the Band shall have the liberty to hunt any game he may find
on the reserve during the open season: the payment of the $250 to be as follows :
‘One hundred dollars on or before the first day of September, 1882, and the other

sum of one hundred and fifty dollars on or before the first day of August, A.D. 1884,
as witness our hands the day and place above mentioned.

Witness to the said signatures :| WILLIAM x SICKLES,
THoMAS GorRDON, \ ANTONEY x Day,
Indian Agent. | ° THomMas x Homer,

THOMAS x DoxtTarTor,
Chief JoHN SICKLES,
Mosss x Brown, Chief,
ABRAHAM. Sicxuies, Chief,
Henry GREEN,
ADAM SICKLES,
ELIJAH SICKLES,
JOHN x Brown, Chief.
Isaac SICKLES,
WILLIAM x DoxtaTor, Sr.
JOHN x NICHOLAS,
ABRON x NICHOLAS,
Baptist x Doxtator, Chief.
JOHN x NINHAM,
AARON x GEORGE.
PRovINce of ONTARIO, |
County or Mippresex. §

We, Thomas Gordan, of the Town of Strathroy, in the County of Middlesex and
Province of Ontario, Indian Agent, and Chief Abraham Sickles, of the Township of

_ Delaware, in the County of Middlesex, and Province of Ontario, being a member of

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