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To HAVE and To HOLD the same, unto Her Majesty Our Sovereign Lady the
(Queen, Her successors and assigns forever, in trust, nevertheless, to sell and convey
the same, at the best price, and upon such terms as may appear most conducive to
the interests of the said Wyandott Indians, and to invest the proceeds arising there-
from on the best possible terms and rate of interest, on the behalf and for the bene-
fit of the said Wyandott Indians and their descendants.

Tx Wirness Wuzreor, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this twenty-
seventh day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and

seventy-four.

Signed, sealed and delivered JOSEPH x Wuirts, Chief, [L.8.]
in the presence of ALEX. CLARK, (based
Rost. Macxenzizr, V.S. & C./ JosEePH WaARRow, ess
S. WHITE. J JAMES CLARK, [L.S.]
Tuos. B. WHITE, eS

Peter D. Cuark, [L.8.]

THomas Warrow, ES

JOSEPH CLARK, [L.S.]

S. WHITE, [L.8.]

RanpDoLpH CiarK, LES.)

Peter WHITE, [L.S.]

TsraEL J. SPLITLOG, [L.S.]

JOSEPH J. CLARK, S|

Wer, Robert Mackenzie, Visiting Superintendent and Commissioner, and Solomon
White, one of the Chiefs of the Wyandott Indians of Anderdon, hereby certify that
the above surrender was freely assented to by a large majority of the said Band of
Indians present at a Council summoned for that purpose, on the day of the date

above expressed.

Taken and sworn before me at Sandwich, |

in the County of Essex, this 28th day|
of November, A.D., 1874, ‘ ROBT. MACKENZIE, V.S. & C.
G. W. Lxcaarr, S. WHITE
Co. Essex. J

Recorded 12th February, 1875.

Lib. S. Folio 211.
R. W. Scort,
Secretary of State and Registrar-General of Canada.

No. 142.

Tris INDENTURE made this seventh day of December, in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, between William Ives, of the town and
County of Pictou, in the Province of Nova Scotia, merchant, and Christianna Ives,
his wife, of the one part, and Her Majesty Queen Victoria, represented herein by the
Minister of the Interior of the Dominion of Canada, of the other part.

- Wuereas, Her said Majesty Queen Victoria, represented as aforesaid, has agreed
with the said William Ives to purchase the lot of land hereinafter described for the
use and benefit of the Micmac Indians in the County of Pictou aforesaid, for the
price or sum hereinafter mentioned.

Now ruererors, this Indenture witnesseth that the said William Ives and Chris-

tianna Ives his wife, in consideration of the sum of one thousand one hundred and
fifty-seven dollars of lawful money of Canada to the said William Ives, in hand well
and truly paid by Her said Majesty, represented herein as aforesaid, at or before

the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknow —

ledged, have and each of them hath granted, bargained, sold, aliened, enfeoffed,
released, remised, conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents do and each of them
doth grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, release, remise, convey and confirm unto Her
Majesty Queen Victoria, represented as aforesaid, Her heirs and successors.

All that certain lot and piece of land situate, lying and being at Fisher’s Grant,
in the said County of Pictou, and described as follows, that is to say :—

Beginning on the north shore of Boat Harbour, at the south-east corner of lands
owned by James G. Sproull, and running thence north thirty-seven degrees forty-five
minutes west by the magnet of June, 1873, along the east line of said Sproull’s land
seventy-four chains, thence north fifty-two degrees fifteen minutes east by the mag-
net aforesaid, along the south line of lands owned by the said William Ives, eleven
chains and thirty-five links to the west line of Edwin Sproull’s land, thence ‘south
thirty-seven degrees and forty-five minutes east by the magnet aforesaid, along the
last mentioned line and west line of lands owned by James G. Sproull aforesaid and
William Powell the elder sixty-one chains and eighty-five links to the waters of
Boat Harbour aforesaid, thence south-eastwardly, southwardly and westwardly, and
by the various courses of the shore of said Boat Harbour to the place of beginning,
containing eighty-nine acres, more or less.

Together with all and singular the houses, outhouses, barns, buildings, ways,
waters, watercourses, easements, privileges and appurtenances to the same, belonging
or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remain-
ders, rents, issues and profits thereof, and also all the estate, right, title, interest,
claim, property and demand, both at law and in equity of them, the said Wilham
Ives and Christianna Ives, his wife, of, in, to or out of the same or any part thereof,

To have and to hold the said land and premises with the appurtenances and every
part thereof unto Her said Majesty Queen Victoria, represented as aforesaid, Her heirs
and successors, to Her and their sole use, benefit, and behoof forever.

And the said William Ives doth hereby for himself, his heirs, executors and
administrators, grant, covenant, promise, and agree to and with Her said Majesty
Queen Victoria, represented as aforesaid, Her heirs and successors, in manner follow-
ing, that is to say :

That it shall and may be lawful for Her said Majesty, revresented as afcresaid,
Her heirs and successors, from time to time and at all times hereafter, peaceably
und quietly to enter into the said land and premises, and to have, hold, occupy,
possess and enjoy the same without the lawful let, suit, hindrance, eviction, denial

or disturbance of, from or by the said William Ives or Christianna Ives, his wife, or

any person or persons whomsoever lawfully claiming or to claim the same.

And also, that the said William Ives and Christianna Ives, his wife, or one of
them, have a good, sure, perfect and indefeasible estate of inheritance in fee simple
in the said land and premises, and have good right, full power and lawful authority
to sell and convey the same in manner and form as they are hereby sold and con-

veyed or mentioned, or intended so to be. | ;
And lastly, that the said William Ives and his heirs, the said land and premises,

and every part thereof, unto Her said Majesty Queen Victoria, represented as afore-
said, Her heirs and successors, against the lawful claims of all persons whomsoever,
shall and will by these presents warrant and forever defend :

Ix Wirxess Wuereor, the parties to these presents have hereto their hands and

seals set and affixed on the day and year first above written.

WILLIAM IVES, [L.S.]

Signed, sealed and delivered) CHRISTIANNA IVES, [1.8.]
in presence of {
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Provwee or Nova Scotia, |
Hauirax, S.S. i .

Be it remembered that on this seventh day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four, before me the subscriber personally came and appeared
Christianna Ives, wife of William Ives, mentioned in the foregoing Indenture, who
having been by me examined separate and apart from her said husband, did declare
and acknowledge that she executed the said Indenture as and for her act and deed
without fear, threat or compulsion, of, from or by her said husband, and for a full
release of all her claims to the land therein described.

G. H. ELLIOT,
Barrister and Notary Public.

Recorded 3rd March, 1875.

Lib. S. Folio. 217.
ihe Wi SCOTT,

Secretary of State and Registrar General of Canada.

No. 143.

Know ALL Men BY THESE Presents that we, the Chiefs, Principal Men and
Warriors of the Chippewa Indians, of Sarnia, owning and residing on the Indian
Reserve at Sarnia, being this day assembled with our people in general council, and
acting for and on behalf of the whole merhbership of our, said Band, and with the
free consent of a majority thereof, as expressed in our said council summoned for
that purpose, in presence of the Honourable the Superintendent-General of Indian
Affairs and of Robert Mackenzie, our local Superintendent, have agreed to surren-
der and yield up, and do hereby surrender and yield up 1nto our Sovereign Lady
the Queen, Her heirs and successors, in trust, to be sold for the benefit of ourselves
and our children, all that certain portion of our said reserve, containing about one
hundred and fifty-four acres, be the same more or less, which may be described as
follows, namely : Lots numbers forty-five, forty-six, forty-seven, forty-eight, forty-
nine and fifty of the front range of our said reserve, as shown on the map of the
survey thereof made by P. 5. Donnelly in the year 1855.

To tHE Enp, that the said described piece of land, including the beach and
water privileges in front of the same, may be re-surveyed and sold in such manner,
and on such terms, as the Honourable the Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs
may judge to be best for our advantage ; and that the proceeds of the said land, as
the same may be realized, shall be properly invested, and the interest to be derived
therefrom paid over to ourselves, our people and children, at the same times in each
year as it is customary to pay our annuity and interest monies. SUBJECT, NEVERTHELESS,
to the following stipulations and conditions, namely : That the improvements, rents
and other advantages of the present occupants of all the above-described lots of land
shall be faithfully valued, and the full and fair value of the same, together with all
necessary and reasonable expenses of removal, paid to the said occupants, their heirs or
assigns, or invested for their benefit in providing new dwellings and other necessary
improvements on other portions of the said reserve to be allotted to the said parties,
in lieu of the lands to be by them vacated. AND FURTHER, that fair compensation for
any improvements made by other parties on lots on which it may be found desirable
to locate the parties to be removed shall be granted. All to be paid from the pro-
ceeds of the sale of the above surrendered lands; and also that from and out of the
first monies to be received for the sale of the said lands there shall be a distribution
made of four dollars to each individual member of the Band.

In Wirvess to ail which covenants and conditions, we the said Chiefs, Principal
Men, and Warriors, have set our hands and seals to this surrender, executed in
duplicate, and dated at Sarnia, +n the County of Lambton, Province of Ontario, and