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Accepted by the Governor in Council on the 16th May 1897.
JOHN J. McGEE
Clerk of the Privy Council.

Recorded 3rd June 1899
Lib 148 Fol 528.
Josep Popr
Dep. Registrar General of Canada.

No. 416A,

Know att Men By THESE Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and
Principal men of the Chippewas of Saugeen Band of Indians resident on our Reserve
at Saugeen in the County of Bruce in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of
Canada, for and acting on behalf of the whole people of our said Band in Council
assembled, Do hereby release, remise, surrender, quit claim and yield up unto Our
Sovereign Lady The Queen, her Heirs and Successors forever, ALL AND SINGU-
LAR, those certain parcels or tracts of land and premises, situate, lying and being in
the Georgian Bay containing by admeasurement Three Thousand Three hundred and
seventy acres be the same more or less and being composed of those certain Islands
known as Hay and Griffiths, situate in the Georgian Bay at the entrance to Colpoy’s
Bay, Saugeen Peninsula.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty Ture Queen, her
Heirs and Successors forever, in trust to sell the same, to such person or persons, and
upon such terms as the Government of the Dominion of Canada may deem most con-
ducive to our welfare and that of our people.

AND upon the further condition that all moneys received from the Sale thereof,
shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management, be placed to
our credit and that of the Chippewas of Nawash in the proportion to which we are
entitled and the interest thereon to be paid to the parties interested, annually or semi-
annually.

AND WE, the Chief and Principal men of the said Chippewas of Saugeen Band
fo Indians do on behalf of our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confirm,
and promise to ratify and confirm, whatever the said Government may do, or cause t)
-be lawfully done, in connection with the sale of the said two Islands and the disposi-
tion of the moneys arising therefrom.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our

seals this Thirteenth day of April in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and Ninety Nine.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered, in the pre- ) THomAs Sotomon MaANnpowaB [LS.]
sence of CEPHAS KAHBEEJE [L.S.]
JOHN SCOFFIELD Davip Root [L.8.]
Indian Agent. JOHN NASHKAWA [L.8.]
PETER HENRY [L.S.]
Henry RITCHIE [L.8.]
Ep. J. MADWASHEMIND [L.8.]
his
JOHN x JAMES [L.8.]
mark
his
SIMPSON x QUAKEGESHIG [L.S.]
mark

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DOMINION CF CANADA, Personally appeared before me, John
Province of Ontario Scoffield of the Saugeen Indian Reserve
County of Bruce in the Province of Ontario, Indian Agent

To Wit: and Thomas Solomon Mandowab Chief

of the said Band of Indians.

AND the said John Seoffield for himself saith :—

That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by a majority of the male
members of the said Band of Indians of the Saugeen Indian Reserve of the full age
of twenty-one years then present.

That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band summoned
for that purpose and according to their Rules.

That he was present at such meeting or council and heard such assent given.

That he was duly authorized to attend such council or meeting by the Super-
intendent General of Indian Affairs.

That no Indian was present or voted at said council or meeting who was not a
member of the Band or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Sur-

render.

And the said Thomas Solomon Mandowab says:

That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by him and a majority of
the male members of the said Band of Indians of the full age of twenty-one years
then present.

That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band of Indians
summoned for that purpose, according to their Rules; and held in the presence of the
said

That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not am
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 a Chief of the said Band of Indians and entitled to vote at the said

meeting or council.

Sworn before me by the said John Scof-

~ field and Thomas Solomon Mandowab

Deponents at the Village of Port Elgin

in the County of Bruce this 4th day
of May A.D., 1899.
James Muir

Justice of Peace
County of Bruce

JOHN SCOFFIELD
THOMAS SOLOMON MANDOWAB

Recorded 6th July 1899
Lib. 150. Fol 615.
JosEPH Pope
Dep: Registrar General of Canada.

No. 416B.

Know att Men py THESE Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and
Principal men of the Chippewas of Nawash Band of Indians resident on our Reserve
at Cape Croker in the County of Bruce in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of
Canada, for and acting on behalf of the whole people of our said Band in Council
assembled, Do hereby release, remise, surrender, quit claim and yield up unto Our