301 Given under the great seal of Our Province of Ontario. Witness, the Honoraole ‘William Pearce Howland, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath and Lieutenant Governor of Our Province of Ontario, at Toronto, this seventeenth day of September, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, eud in the thirty-serenth year of Our Reign. By command of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. T. B. PARDEE, Secretary. THOS Ee JOHNSON, Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands. Recorded 22nd September, 1873. Liber 46, Folio 204. JoHN F. C, USsHER, Deputy Provincial Registrar. No. 1380. We, the undersigned Chiefs and Principal Men of the band of Indians owning the tract of land known as the Garden River Reserve, and described in the treaty effected on the ninth day of September, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty with the Chiefs and Principal Men of the Ojibewa Tribe of Indians inhabiting and claiming the eastern and northern shores of Lake Huron, by the Hon- curable William Benjamin Robinson, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, as being situated at Garden River, in the District of Algoma, in {]:e Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, and known as the Indian Reserve at (;arden River, and laid down on a plan by John Stoughton Dennis, Provincial Land Surveyor, dated and on file in the head office of Indian Affairs at Ottawa, ir. full council of our said band assembled at Garden River on this twentieth day of May in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy three, do hereby agree and consent to surrender, and by this instrument do surrender to Her Gracious Majesty aforesaid, Her heirs and successors, in trust, for the use and benefit of the Church of England Mission, established at the Garden River Reserve aforesaid and their successors for ever, for the purpose of the said mission, all that parcel or tract of land situate upon the Garden River Reserve aforesaid, and deseribed as follows, that is to say: being lots numbered fifteen, south of Milton street, north of Milton street, south of Prince street and north of Prince street, in the town plot of Shinguacouse, on the reserve aforesaid, containing by admeasurement two acres and one quarter or thereavout, be the same more or less, and we make this surrender in acknowledge- “rent and in consideration of the benefits conferred upon the Indians resident upon ‘the reserve aforesaid by the said mission. Ix Witness WHEREOF, we,*the undersigned Chiefs and Principal Men of the bend aforesaid, and as representing the entire said band, have hereunto set our hands snd seals on the day and in the year first above written, in the presence of William Plummer, Superintendent and Commissioner of Indian Affairs, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen aforesaid. Signed, sealed and delivered at Garden River on the’ day C oe fone pee first above written, in the ce es ier [L.8.] ma t presence of . his Fredk. Frost, School-teacher, Culnr PEQUETCHENENE, x [L.S.] Garden River. a mark 1S AS . Je E . : ji pas. ©. PHIpps SHEBAHKIZHIK, xX (Ss mark his CHARLES La ROSE, -x poise mark his Louison SHINGWAUK, x [L.S.] mark his A ASKIN, x [L.8.] ¥ mark : | his THEOPHILUS BOISSENAULT, x [L.8.] mark his 5 WILLIAM SHEBAUGHESIK, xX Gone ee mark his FRANCIS CLARKE, x | [L.8.] mark his JOHN WEYMOSS, x [L.S.] mark his NAHGAHWAIWEDON, xX he LS mark his MEZEGUM, x [L.S.] mark his WAIKEMAH, x [L.8S.] mark his MisQUAHBONOCAI, xX [L.S8.] mark his TEGOUCHE, x [L.8.] mark - JOSEPH LESAGE, [L.8.] his GrorGe AUGUSTINE, x TL.S.] mark his JosEPH SHEBAUGHESICK, xX [L.8.] mark On behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, I hereby accept the surrender above made by the Chiefs and Principal Men of the band own- ae the Garden River Reserve of the lots in the town plot of Shinguacouse, described yerein. WM. PLUMMER, Visiting Superintendent and Commissioner of Indian Affairs. I certify that the above named William Plummer and Chief Augustin appeared before me at the Town of Sault Ste. Marie, in the District of Algoma, this 20th day cf May, A.D., 1873, and were severally sworn that the foregoing surrender was signed by them, Chief Pequetchenene, the only Chiefs and by the Principal Men above named of the Garden River band of Indians, in the said District, on the day of the dite thereof. WALTER McCREA, Judge, District of Algoma. Copy of a Report of a Committee of the Honorable the Privy Council, approved by His Excellency the Governor General in Council on the 2nd October, 1873. On a memorandum dated 30th September, 1873, from the Honorable the Min- ister of the Interior, submitting a surrender received through Superintendent Plum- mer, bearing date 20th May, 1873, and executed by the Chiefs and Principal Men 303 of the Garden River band of Ojibway Indians, conveying to the Crown, in trust, lots numbers fifteen on the north side of Milton street, fifteen on the south side of Milton street, fifteen on the north side of Prince street, fifteen on the south side of Frince street, in the town plot of Chinguacouse, and containing two acres and one- quarter, and situated within this said reserve, for the use and benefit of the Church of England Mission established at the Garden River Reserve. The Minister reports that Mr. Plummer, in a letter accompanying the said in- strument, states that the dwelling house and premises of the Church of England Missionary are situated on the said lots, and that a large building for a general school or an academy for the training of Indians is about to be erected. He accordingly recommends that the surrender so executed, which has been duly proved before the Judge for the District of Algoma, be accepted by Your Excellency in Council, in accordance with the provisions of the 8th section of the Act 31 Vic- toria, chapter 42. The Committee advise that the surrender be accepted accordingly. Certified, To the Honourable Wieva EIMS WORTH, C.P.C. The Minister of the Interior, &e., &e., &e. Nos, 13d) and 132: ARTICLES OF A TREATY made and concluded this third day of October, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, between Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, by Her Commissioners, the Honorable Alexander Morris, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Manitoba and of the North-west Territories; Joseph Alfred Norbert Provencher and Simon James Dawson, of the one part, and the Saulteaux Tribe of the Ojibway Indians, inhabitants of the country within the limits hereinafter defined and describea, py their Chiefs chosen and named as hereinafter mentioned, of the other part. Whereas the Indians inhabiting the said country have, pursuant to an appoint- ment made by the said Commissioners, been convened at a meeting at the north-west augle of the Lake of the Woods to deliberate upon certain matters of interest to Her Most Gracious Majesty, of the one part, and the said Indians of the other. And whereas the said Indians have been notified and informed vy Her Majesty’s said Commissioners that it is the desire of Her Majesty to open up for settlement, immigration and such other purpose as to Her Majesty may seem meet, a tract of eountry bounded and described as hereinafter mentioned, and to obtain the consent thereto of Her Indian subjects inhabiting the said tract, and to make a treaty and @.range with them so that there may be peace and good will between them and Her Majesty and that they may know and be assured of what allowance they are to count upon and receive from Her Majesty’s bounty and’ benevolence. And whereas the Indians of the said tract, duly convened in council as aforesaid, and being requested by Her Majesty’s said Commissioners to name certain Chiefs and Headmen, who should be authorized on their behalf to conduct such negotiations and sign any treaty to be founded thereon, and to become responsible to Her Majesty for their faithful performance by their respective bands of such obligations as shall be assumed by them, the said Indians have thereupon named the following persons for that purpose, that is to say :— ' _KEK-TA-PAY-PI-NAIS (Rainy River.) KITCHI-GAY-KAKE (Rainy River.) NotTE-NA-QUA-HUNG (North-West Angle.) NAWE-DO-PE-NESS (Rainy River.) Pow-wa-sana (North-West Angle.) CANDA-COM-IGO-WE-NINIE (North-West Angle.) PApa-Sko-GIn (Rainy River.)