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No. 190.
ALEX. GRANT,
President.
PRovINcE oF Upprer CANnaDa.

GeoRGE THE THIRD, by the-Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith.
Lo all to whom these presents shall come —Greeting.

Know Yer, that We of Our special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion,
have given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant unto William Gil-
kinson, of the Township of Sandwich, in the County of Essex, in the Western Dis-
trict, ship-master, his heirs and assigns forever, all that parcel or tract of land situate
in the Township of Delaware, in the County of Middlesex, in the District of London,
in Our said Province, containing by admeasurement five hundred acres (with allow-
ance for roads), be the same more or less, being the small lot number twenty-four
in the broken Concession A, on the River Thames ; lots number twenty-four in
the Concessions B and C, and the front or westerly part of lot, number twenty-four
in the Concession D, in the said Township of Delaware, together with all the woods
and waters thereon lying, and being under the reservations, limitations, and con-
ditions hereinafter expressd ; which said five hundred acres of lands are butted and
bounded, or may be otherwise known as follows, that is to say : Commencing in
front upon the River Thames, on the north side of the allowance for road, between
the Townships of Delaware and Southwold, at the south-west angle of the said lot
number twenty-four in the broken concession A; then north seventy degrees, east one
hundred and seventy-one chains seventy-five links ; then north twenty degrees, west
twenty-nine chains eighty links, more or less, to the limit between luts number twenty-
four and twenty-three ; then south seventy degrees, west to the River Thames; then
southerly along the water’s edge with the stream to the place of beginning.

To have and to hold the said parcel or tract of land hereby given and granted
to him, the said William Gilkinson, his heirs and assigns for ever ; saving neverthe-
less 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 pracel or tract of land hereby granted as aforesaid.

Provided always that no part of the parcel or tract of land, hereby given and
granted to the said William Gilkinson and his heirs, be within any reservation here-
tofore 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 Gilkinson and his heirs for ever
as aforesaid, and which shall, upon a survey thereof being made, be found within any
such reservation, shall be null and void, ad of none effect, anything herein contained
to the contrary, notwithstanding. :

Provided also, that the said William Gilkinson, 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 of land, a good and sufficient dwelling house (he the
said William Gilkinson or his assigns not having built, or not being in his or their
own right lawfully possessed of an house in our said province) and be therein, or
cause some person to be therein resident for and during the space of one year, thence
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 Gilkinson and his heirs shall come into the
possession and tenure of any person or persons whomsoever, 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 or afiirma-
tions and declarations prescribed by law before some one of the magistrates of our

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said Province; and a certificate of such oaths or affirmations and declarations 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, this
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,
cur heirs and successors, in like manner as if the same had never been granted, any-
thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

And whereas, by an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, passed in the thirty-
first year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act to repeal certain parts of an
‘Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled: 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 Pro-
vince,” has declared “That no grant of lands hereinafter made shall be valid or
effectual unless the same shall contain a specification of the lands to be allotted and
appropriated solely to the maintenance of a Protestant clergy within the said Fro-
vince,” in respect of the lands to be thereby granted.

Now Know YE, that we have eaused an allotment or appropriation of seventy-
one acres and three-sevenths to be made in lot number twenty-two, in the fourth
concession of the said Township of Delaware. °

Given under the Great Seal of Our Province of Upper Canada : Witness, Our
trusty and well-beloved Alexander Grant, Esquire, our President, administering the
Government of our said Province this second day of May in the year of Our Lord

one thousand eight hundred and six and forty-sixth of Our Reign.
Ao &.

By Command of His Honour in Council.
WM. JARVIS,

Registrar.

Entered with the Auditor 7th May, 1806.
PETER RUSSEL,
AG.

No. 191.

Tus INDENTURE, made the seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and forty—Between the Honourable John Hamilton, of
Queenston, in the District of Niagara and Province of Upper Canada, Esq., David
Gilkison, late of the T ownship of Nichol, in the District of Wellington and Province

aforesaid, now of Genessee, in the State of New York, Esq., and Archibald Gilkison,

jiof Queenston, aforesaid, Esq., executors of the last will and testament of William

Gilkison, in his lifetime of Oak Bank, near Brantford, in the District of Gore, Esq.,
deceased, parties of the first part; and Her Majesty Victoria by the Grace of God of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith.
Whereas by a certain agreement lately made by and between the said parties of
the first part, and the principals of the Oneida Nation by their agent of the other
part and ratified and approved by the Chief Superintendent of Indian Affairs in
this Province, that said parties of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum otf
three hundred and eighty-seven pounds and ten shillings of lawful money of the
said Province did agree to bargain grant sell and convey to, or to the use of, or
in trust for them the said principals of the Oneida Nation, a certain parcel or tract
of land and premises situate in the township of Delaware in the London district 1
the Province of Upper Ganada, which is hereinafter more particularly described.
And whereas on the making of the agreement for the selling and conveying of the
said land and premises aforesaid it was desired that the said land and premises should
be conveyed to them by a deed of surrender to Her Majesty, Her heirs «nd successors,

in trust for them the said Oneida Nation.