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Crown Lanp DEPARTMENT,
Toronto, 20th February, 1857.

Entered upon the records of this Department on Hes INO. O0:

No. 72.
SURRENDER OF THE SAUGEEN PENINSULA.

We, the Chiefs, Sachems and Principal Men of the Indian Tribes resident at
Saugeen, Owen Sound, confiding in the wisdom and protecting care of our Great
Mother across the Big Lake, and believing that our Good Father, His Excellency
the Earl of Elgin and Kineardine, Governor-General of Canada, is anxiously desirous
to promote those interests which will most largely conduce to the welfare of His
red children, have now, being in full Council assembled, in presence of the Superin-
tendent General of Indian Affairs, and of the young men of both tribes, agreed that
it will be highly desirable for us to make a full and complete surrender unto the
Crown of thai Peninsula known as the Saugeen and Owen Sound Indian Reserve,
subject to certain restrictions and reservations to be hereinafter set forth. We have
therefore set our marks to this document, after having heard the same read to us,
and do hereby surrender tne whole of the above nameca tract oi country, bounded on
the south by a straight line drawn from the Indian village of Saugeen to the Indian ~
village of Nawash, in continuation of the northern limits of the narrow strip recent y
surrendered by us to the Crown; and bounded on the north-east ana wes
gian Bay and Lake Huron, with the following reservations, to wit: Ist. For the
benefit of tne Saugeen Indians we reserve all that block of land bounded on the west
by a straight line running due north from the River Saugeen, at the spot where it is
entered by a ravine, immediately to the west of the village, and over which a bridge
has recently been constructed, to the shore of Lake Huron; on the south by the
aforesaid northern limit of the lately surrendered strip; on the east by a line drawn
from a spot upon the coast ata distance of about (94) nine miles and a half from
the western boundary aforesaid, and running paraliel thereto until it touches the

aforementioned northern limits of the recently surrendered strip; and we wish it to

| be clearly understood that we wish the Peninsula at the mouth of the Saugeen River

to tne west of the western boundary aforesaid to be laid out in town park lots and
sold for our benefit without delay ; and we also wish it to be understood that our sur-
render includes that parcel of land which ig in continuation of the strip recently sur-
rendered to the Saugeen River. |

We do also reserve to ourselves that tract of land called Chief’s Point, bounded
on the east by a line drawn from a spot half a mile up the Sable River, and continued
in a northerly direction to tne bay, and upon all other sides by the lake.

ond. We reserve for the benefit of the Owen Sound Indians all that traci
bounded on the south by. the northern limits of the continuation of the strip recently
currendered; on the north-west by a line drawn from the north easterly angle of the
aforesaid strip (as it was surrendered in 1851, in a north-easterly direction) ; on the
south-east by the sound extending to the southern limit of the Caughnawaga Settle-
ment; on the north by a line two miles in length and forming the said southern limit.
And we also reserve to ourselves all that tract of land called Cape Crocker, bounded
on three sides by Georgian Bay, on the south-west side by a line drawn from the
bottom of Nochemowenaing Bay to the mouth of Sucker River, and we include in the
aforesaid surrender the parcel of land contained in the continuation to Owen’s Sound
of the recently surrendered strip aforesaid.

8rd. We do reserve for tne benefit of the Colpoy’s Bay Indians, in the presence
and with the concurrence of John Beattie, who represents the tribe at this Council, a

seas

block of land containing 6,000 acres, and including their village, and bounded on the
north by Colpoy’s Bay.
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All which reserves we hereby retain to ourselves and our children in perpetuity, |

and it is agreed that the interest of the principal sum arising out of the sale of our
lands be regularly paid to them so long as there are Indians left to represent our tribe
without diminution at half yearly periods.

And we hereby request the sanction of our Great Father the Governor General
to this surrender, which we consider highly conducive to our general interests.

Done in Council, at Saugeen, this thirteenth day of October, 1854.

It is understood that no islands are included in this surrender.

Signed and sealed: JOHN (totem) KADUHGEKWUN, [L.S.]
L. OLIPHANT, ALEx. (totem) MApwayosH, [L.8.]
Supt. Genl. Indian Affairs. JOHN (totem) MANEDSWAB, [L.8.]

JNo. THos. (totem) WAHBUHDICK, [L.S.]

PETER JACOBS, PETER (totem) JONES, [L.8.]
Missionary. Davin SAWYER, [L.S.]
Witnesses : JoHN H. Beaty, [L.S.]
Jas. Ross, M.P.P. THoMas (totem) PABAHMOSH, [L.S.]

C. Rang, P.L.S. JoHN (totem) MADWASHEMIND, [L.8.]

A. McNasp, JOHN JOHNSTON, [L.S.]
Crown Land Agent. JOHN AUNJEGAHBOWH, [L.8.]

JAMES NEWASH, Aad

THOMAS (totem) WAHBUHDICK, LS: ]

CHARLES KEESHICK, [L.8.]

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Copy of a Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Executive Council, approved
by His Hucellency the Governor General on the 27th September, 18585.

On a memorandum dated 12th instant, from the Superintendent General of
Indian Affairs, submitting certain proposed changes, as shown in two certain plans,
in the shape of the Indian reserves in the tract commonly called the Saugeen Penin-
sula, lately surrendered to the Crown, both changes having been assented to by the
Indians in Council, and recommending:

ist. That the reserve known as the Saugeen Reserve, now bounded on the west
by a straight line running due north from the River Saugeen at the spot where it is
entered by a ravine immediately to the west of the village, be bounded instead by
the Indian path called the Copway Road, which takes a north-westerly direction, as
shown by the red line in the ie This change will give the Saugeen Indiany a
small increase of frontage on Lake Huron, and will not interfere with the town plot
now laid out on the tongue of land contained between that lake and the River
Saugeen.

2nd. That the south-western boundary of the Cape Crocker Reserve, now formed
by a line drawn from the bottom of Nochemowenaing Bay to the mouth of Sucker
River, start instead from the soutn shore of Hope Bay, at a small point about a mile
from its head, and strike Lake Huron two miles south of Sucker River, as shown
by the plan. This change would cut off from the Indians one mile of frontage on
Hope Bay, giving them in compensation two miles extra frontage on the Georgian
Bay. The head of Hope Bay has been recommended by Mr. Dennis, the surveyor
of the tract, as the site for a cown, and the present position of the souti-western
boundary of the reserve would render it impossible to carry out his suggestion.

The Committee recommend that the proposed changes be effected.

Certified.
WM... H. LER:
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Cory of a Report of a Committee of the Honorable the Hxecutwe Council, dated 31st
January, 1855, approved by His Lecellency the Governor General m Council on the -

3rd February, 1855.

On a communication dated 31st January, ult., from the Superintendent General of
Indian affairs, transmitting a surrender from the Chippewa Indians of Saugeen and
Owen Sound to Her Majesty, in trust of a tract of land situated in the County of
Grey, and forming part of the Peninsula on the north-east shore of Lake Huron,
commonly called the “ Saugeen Reserve,” and requesting that the trust may be
accepted by Your Excellency in Council and entered upon the records in the offices
of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Provincial Registrar.

The Committee recommend that the trust be accepted, and that an entry be
made thereof in the offices of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Provincial
Registrar.

Certified.

WM. H. LEE,
C.E.C.

To the Honourable
The Provincial Registrar,
&e., &e., &e.

PROVINCIAL REGISTRARS OFFICE,
QueBEc, 15th February, 1855.

| IT hereby certify that the foregoing surrender and minute of the Executive
Council thereon have been entered upon the records of this office in Lib. C.S.,

Folio 129.
THO. AMIOT,

Depy. Regr.

No. 74.

, J. COLBORNE.
UPPER CANADA.

WituiAM tHE FourtH, 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 Reverend
Richard Scott, of the Township of Otonabee; the Revd. Alexander Bethune, of
Cobourg; Charles Anderson, and Charles Rubidge, both of the Township of Otonabee,
Esquires, all in the County of Northumberland, in the District of Newcastle; and
the Honourable George Herchmer Markland, of the City of Toronto, in the Home
District, and to their heirs and assigns for ever, all that pareel or tract of land
situate in the Township of Otonabee, in the County of Northumberland, in the Dis--
trict of Newcastle, in Our Province of Upper Canada, containing one thousand one
hundred and twenty acres, be the same more or less, being the town plot reser-
vation on the Rice Lake and River Otonabee in the said Township of Otonabee,
commencing on the shore of the Rice Lake where a red cedar post has been planted
at the south-east angle of a certain block of land granted to Charles Anderson,
Esquire; then north sixteen degrees forty minutes west sixty three chains, to where
a red cedar post has been planted at the north-east angle of the said block; then
| south seventy-four degrees five minutes west sixty-five chains, more or less, to within
|. one chain of the River Otonabee; then northerly following the several turnings and
windings of the said river against the stream, always at tne distance of one chain
therefrom, to within one chain of lot number seven, in the twelfth concession of the