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to be made on Michaelmas Day next after the expiration of ten years from the date
hereof ; and so to continue payable yearly hereafter forever—on default thereof
this grant to be null and void.

And provided also that no part of the lands hereby granted shall at any time
hereafter be sold or disposed of in any manner or form, or fer any consideration
whatever, without the consent of the Governor or Commander-in-Chief being first
had and obtained under the seal of the Province for that purpose ; otherwise, the
said lands to become thereby forfeited to the King, and thig grant to be void and
of none effect.

And provided further, that this grant shall be registered in the Ri pastels office,
and docquet thereof entered at the Auditor’s office within six months from the date,
and the land hereby granted to become forfeited as aforesaid.

In Witness Wuereor, I have signed these presents, and caused the seal of the
Province to be hereunto affixed, at Halifax, this second day of August, in the nine-
teenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord, George the Third, by the Grace of
God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and -so
forth ; and in the year of Our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine.

By command of the Lieutenant-Governor, with the advice and consent of His

Majesty’s Council.

Nova Scotia, Hauirax, S. S. |
Registered the 2nd day of August, 1779. {
Lib. 6, Page 106.

ArtTHUR Gootp, Registrar.
Rp. BuULKLEY.

Entered in the Auditor’s Office, at Halifax,
Hin Ausust, 1779.

JNO. BREYNTON,
Deputy Auditor.

No. 153.

Kwow atu Men sy TrHese Presents, that we the undersigned Chiefs and Principal
Men of the Band of Indians owning Fox or Muskoka Island, in Lake Simcoe, in the
Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, for and acting on behalf of our people,
lo hereby remise, release, surrender, quit claim and yield up unto Our Sovereign
Lady the Queen, Her heirs and successors forever—all and singular that certain
portion of land forming part of the Fox or Muskoka Island in Lake Simcoe afore-
said ; and which portion of the said Island may be known and described as follows
—and as laid down on the annexed traced plan of the same; that is to say:—Tl ive
acres of the south-east point of the said Fox or Muskoka Island (on which a light-
house and lightkeeper’s dwelling are erected), be the same more or less.

To have and to hold the same unto Her said Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and
successors forever.

All and singular that certain parcel or tract of land as above described, in trust,
to sell and convey the same for purposes in connection with the lighthouse upon
the Island aforesaid, and upon such terms as the Government of the said Dominion
of Canada shall or may deem most conducive to the interests of us, the said Chiefs
and Principal Men, and our people in all time to come.

And upon the further conditions that the moneys received from the sale thereof
shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expense of management, be placed at
interest; and that the interest money so accruing from such investment shall be paid
annually or semi-annually to us and our descendants in all time to come forever.
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And we, the said Chiefs and Principal Men of the Band aforesaid, do’on behalf
of our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confirm whatever the Government
of this Dominion of Canada may do or cause to be lawfully done in connection with
the disposal and sale of the said lands.

Ly Wrrness WHEREOF, we, the said Chiefs and Principal Men, have set our hands
and have attixed our seals unto this Instrument at Georgina Island, in the said Prov-

ince of Ontario and Dominion of Canada aforesaid, this 24th day of March, in the
year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

Having been first read and explained, ] ; . a ii ;
signed, sealed and delivered, in the} Grorce McCurs, Chief, x © (Las. |
presence of J | his at

JACOB CHARLES, X [L.s.]
CHARLES GRYLLS, mark.
Mission Teacher, Tuomas Big Canoe, [L.S.4
JHARLES Bia Canog, [L.5.j
Wma. PLumMeEr, : his Ss
Supt. and Com. Ind. Affairs. JAMES mae [L.5.]
JAMES ASKQUAK, [L.S.j
his
JoHN ELLIOTT, x [L.S.]
mark.
his :
Wm. Post, x EES 4
mark.
his
JAMES Post, xX [L.5.]
“mark.
his
JAMES CHARLES, KX [L.S.]
mark.

And we hereby on oath certify before James Robert Gowan, Senior Judge of Her
Majesty’s County Court for the County of Simcoe, Province of Ontario and Domin-
ion of Canada aforesaid, that the annexed release or surrender was assented to and
executed by the Chiefs and Principal Men of the Band of Indians therein mentioned, ©

essembled at a meeting of such Band and Tribe summoned for that purpose, and whe
were entitled to vote thereat.

Sworn before me at the Town of Barrie, |

County of Simcoe, in tne Province of| WM. PLUMMER,

Ontario, this twenty-ninth day of July> hic
in the year of Our Lord one thousand | GEORGE McCURE, Chief, x
eight hundred and seventy-four. J mark.

Jas. Rost. GOWAN,
Senior Judge County Court, Co. of Simcoe.

No. 154.

Know att Men py tuese Presents, that we, the undersigned Chiefs and Prin-
cipal Men of the Band of Chippewa Indians owning the Indian reserve on the River
Thames, in the Township of Caradoc, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of
Canada, acting for and on behalf of our people, duly assembled for that purpose, in