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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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the Oneidas of the Thames, say : We were personally present on the 18th day of

August, A.D. 1882, at a meeting of council held on the Oneida Indian Reserve,
whieh meeting was summoned acording to the rules of said Band, for the purpose
of taking into consideration the advisability of granting liberty to Mr. A. C. Stone

and others to shoot on the said reserve. We also state that the unanimous consent
of the Band was granted to the above named A. C. Stone and others to shoot on the

said reserve, as stated in the copy of the resolution passed and conditions made to

which this affidavit is attached.

Sworn to before me at Ekfrid, in the) THOMAS GORDON, Indian Agent.
County of Middlesex, this 20th Chief A. SICKLES.

day of September, A.D. 1882. |

Jas. G. BEGG,
A Commissioner.

Liber 84, Folio 344.
L. A. CATELLIER,
Deputy Registrar-General of Canada.

Recorded 4th December, 1882. ]

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ni <i ether cities.

No. 198.

Know ALL Men By THESE Presents, that, we, the undersigned Chief and Princi-
pal Men of the Scugog Band of the Mississaugua Indians resident on our reserve
in the Township of Scugog, in the County and Province of Ontario and Dominion of
Canada, for and acting on behalf of the whole people of our said Band in council

asembled,—

Do hereby remise, release, surrender, quit claim, and yield up unto Our Sovereign
Lady the Queen, Her heirs and successors forever :—

All and singular that certain parcel or tract of land and premises situate, lying
and being in the Township of Seugog, in the County and Province of Ontario, and —
containing by admeasurement one acre and three quarters of one acre, be the same P
more or less and being composed of the north-west corner of lot number seven, in the
eleventh concession of the said township, which may be more particularly described

as follows :—

Commencing where a post has been planted at the north-west angle of the said
lot ; thence north seventy-four degrees, east five chains and eighty-three links to
the west limit of the “Centre Road”; thence south thirty-two degrees thirty-minutes,
west eight chains and forty-two links to the westerly limit of the said lot ; thence
north sixteen degrees, west six chains more or less to the place of beginning. ;

To have and to hold the said one acre and three quarters of one acre of kiynd »
unto Her said Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and successors for ever.

In trust to sell and convey the same to such person or persons and upon such
terms and conditions as the Government of the Dominion of Canada may deem
most conducive 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
at interest, and that the interest money accruing from such investment shall be paid
ennually or semi-annually to us and our descendants for ever. :

And we, the said Chief and Principal Men, do, on behalf of our people and for ©
eurselves, hereby ratify and confirm and promise to ratify and confirm whatever the /

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