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prevail. And which said annuity in manner and form as aforesaid the said party
of the second part do hereby acknowledge as a full remuneration for the territory or

tract of land hereby sold and conveyed to His said Majesty.
In Witness WHEREOF, the respective parties have hereunto set their hands and
geals the day and year herein first above mentioned, and in the sixth year of His

Majesty’s reign.

Signed, sealed and delivered (being first JAMES GIVINS,
read and explained) in the presence a on the part of the Crown [L.S.]
R. B. Coues, WAY-WAY-NOSH, (totem) Piss.
Major 76th Regt. Comg., OSAW-A-WIP, (totem) [L.S.]
W. Bampton, SHOWSQUAGEWAN, (totem) [L.8.]
Capt. 16th Regt., SHOQUONA, (totem) PS]
J. KENNEDY, PUCKENEUSE, (totem) pS]
Lt. 76th Regt., NeGic, (totem) [L.S.]
R. RIcHARDSON, OGE-BICK-IN, (totem) [L.8.]
Surgeon Indian Dept., MACADAGICKO, (totem) [L.8.]
J. B. CLENCH, MICHIKEHABECK, (totem) [L.S.]
Clerk Indian Affarrs, ANIMICKENCE, (totem) [L.8.]
Gerorce F. Rapp, PETAW-WICK, (totem) [L.8.]
Interpreter, Indian Dept., WA-PA-GACE, (totem) [L.S.]
Jos. St. GERMAIN, QHAW-WINE-PENENCE, (totem) [1.8.]
Interpreter, Indian Dept. SHAWGINOSH, (totem) (U.S8.]
ANOTOWIN, (totem) files3
PENENCE-0-QUIN, (totem) aS
CHAOGE-MAN, (totem) [L.8.]
CHIKATAYAN, (totem) [L.S.]
MOoKEGEWAN, (totem) [L.S.]
EQUOIKEGAN, (totem) [L.8.]

No. 28.

P. MAITLAND.
PROVINCE OF UPPER CANADA.

George tHE Fourru, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith.

To all to whom these presents shall come,—GREETING :

Know Ye, that We, of Our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion,
have given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant unto the Honor-
able William Claus, of the Town of Niagara, in the County of Lincoln, in the
_ Niagara District, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, as heir-at-law
of his late mother, Anne Claus, widow of Colonel Daniel Claus, deceased, his heirs
and assigns forever, all that parcel or tract of land situate in the Township of
9 Hawkesbury, Eastern Division, in the County of Prescott, in the Ottawa District,
® in our said Province, containing by admeasurement five thousand acres, be the same
* ~ more or less, being lots Nos. fourteen, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-
| four, twenty-five, twenty-six, in th fourth concession ; lots Nos. thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three and twenty-
* five in the fifth concession ; and lots Nos. 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, and twenty-one, in the
a sixth concession of the said township, together with all the woods and waters lying
4 and being under the reservations, limitations and conditions hereinafter expressed ;
which said five thousand acres are butted and bounded, or may be otherwise known
as follows, that is to say : Commencing in front of the said concessions at the north-
east angle of each of the said lots respectively ; then south twenty-five degrees

west one hundred and five chains twenty-seven links, more or less, to the allowance
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for road in the rear of the said concessions ; then north sixty-five degrees west
nineteen chains, more or less, to the western limit of each lot ; then north twenty-
five degrees east one hundred and five chains, more or less, to the allowance for road
in front of the said concessions ; then south sixty-five degrees east nineteen chains,
more or less, to the place of beginning in each lot.

JouHn B. Rosinson, ]
Atty. Genl.
Recorded 17th April, 1826.

To have and to hold the said parcel or tract of land, hereby given and
granted to him the said William Claus, his heirs and assigns for ever ; saving, never-
theless, to Us, Our heirs and successors, all mines of gold and silver that shall or
may be hereafter found on any part of the said parcel or tract of land hereby given
and granted as aforesaid ; and saving and reserving to Us, Our heirs and successors,
all white pine trees that shall or may now or hereafter grow, or be growing on any
part of the said parcel or tract of land hereby granted as aforesaid.

Provided also, that no part of the parcel or tract of land hereby given and granted
to the said William Claus and his heirs be within any reservation heretofore made
and marked for Us, Our heirs and successors, by Our Surveyor General of Woods, or
his lawful Deputy, in which case this our grant for such part of the land hereby
given and granted to the said William Claus and his heirs forever, as aforesaid, and |
which shall, upon a survey thereof being made, be found within any such reservation,
shall be null and void, and of none effect, anything herein contained to the contrary
notwithstanding. Provided also, that the said William Claus, his heirs or assigns, —
shall and do within three years erect and build, or cause to be erected and built, in
and upon some part of the said parcel or tract af land, a good and sufficient dwelling
house, he, the said William Claus, or his assigns, not having built, or not being in his.
or their own right, lawfully possessed of a house in our said Province, and be therein,
or cause some person to be therein resident for and during the space of three years
then next ensuing the building of the same. Provided also, that if at any time or
times hereafter the land so hereby given and granted to the said William Claus and
his heirs shall come into the possession and tenure of any person or persons whom-
soever, either by virtue of any deed of sale, conveyance, enfeoffment or exchange, or
by gift, inheritance, descent, devise or marriage, such person or persons shall within
twelve months next after his, her or their entry into and possession of the same, take
the oaths prescribed by law before some one of the Magistrates of our said Province,
and a certificate of such oath having been so taken shall cause to be recorded in the
Secretary’s Office of the said Province. In default of all or any of which conditions,
limitations and restrictions, the said grant, and everything herein contained, shall
be, and we hereby declare the same to be null and void, to all intents and purposes
whatsoever, and the land hereby granted, and every part and parcel thereof, shall
revert to, and become vested in Us, Our heirs and successors, in like manner as if the
same had never been granted, anything herein contained to the contrary thereof in |
anywise notwithstanding. ,

And whereas, by an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, passed in the thirty-
first year of the reign of the late King George the Third, entitled : “ An Act to repeal
certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty’s reign, entitled,
‘An Act for making more effectual provision for the Government of the Province of —
Quebec, in North America, and to make further provision for the Government of -the
said Province’” it is declared that no grant of lands hereafter made shall be valid
or effectual unless the same shall contain a specification of the lands to be allotted
and apropriated solely to the maintenance of a Protestant clergy within the said
Province, in respect of the lands to be thereby granted.

Now Know Ye, that We have caused an allotment or appropriation of seven
hundred and fourteen and two-sevenths to be made in lots Nos. five, twelve, nineteen
and twenty-six in the fifth concession of the said Township of Hawkesbury.

Given under the Great Seal of Our Province of Upper Canada.

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SSS SSS SS

Witness Our trusty and well-beloved Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.B., Lieutenant
Governor of Our said Province and Major General Commanding Our Forces therein,
at York, this twelfth day of April, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and twenty-six, and sixth year of our reign.

By command of His Excellency in Council. P.M.
D. CAMERON, Secy.

O. CG. 11th March, 1826.—Under the administration of Sir P. Maitland, K.C.B.,
Lieutenant-Governor, for aforesaid 5,000 acres, in lieu of 5,000 erroneously granted
to the late Anne Claus, which have been recently surrendered to the Crown—Patent
gratuitous.

Entered with the Auditor, 14th April, 1826.

S. HEWARD, :

ee Auditor General, U.C.

ProvinciaAL REGISTPAR’S OFFICE,
MonTreEAL, 18th May, 1847.

I hereby certify that the within is a true and correct copy of the record of the
original grant as entered on the records of this office in Lib. B.F., Folio 334.

eee LiCKET:
kegistrar.

No. 284.
To all to whom these presents shall come.

We, the Sachems and Chief Warriors of the Six Nations of Indians, inhabiting
aud owning the lands situate, lying and being on the Gran 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 seren 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 our brother, the late Captain Joseph Brant, Thayendaneaga, Sachem
and Chief Warrior of the said Six Nations, our true and lawful attorney, did, by an

> indenture of lease, secure unto Jemima Stewart, of the Town of Niagara, in the
District of Niagara, widow, and Sarah Ruggles, of the County of Haldimand (wife
of William Ruggles), daughters of Brant Johnson, our Brother Sachem and Chief
— Warrior, a certain tract of the said land on the south side of the said river. And
__ whereas our said Brother Sachem and Chief Warrior, the said Brant Johnson, served
% during all the old French War as well as that of the Rebellion, and removed with us
to this country from our lands on the Mohawk River, and continued with us until
™ his death. And we the said Sachems and Chief Warriors well knowing his losses
and sufferings in common with ourselves, have this day in General Council, as a
manifestation of our love and esteem for our departed brother warrior, unanimously
' determined to surrender to His Majesty the said tract of country, in order that the
same may be more effectually secured to his children, the said Jemima Stewart and
Sarah Ruggles, their heirs and assigns, by letters patent under the Great Seal of this
Province. Now know ye, that for the said good causes, and of our love and affec-
tion for the children of our said Brother Sachem and Chief Warrior, we, the said
- Sachems and Chief Warriors in General Council of our Nations, have, and each of us
hath, surrendered, relinquished and yielded up, and by these presents do and each
¢ of us doth surrender, relinquish and yield up unto our Sovereign Lord the present
King’s Most Excellent Majesty, His heirs and successors, all that certain parcel or
___ tract of land, situate, lying and being on the south side of the said Grand or River