49 ————_. of His Majesty, does hereoy promise and agree to pay to the said Nation of Indians | inhabiting as above mentioned, yearly, and every year, fotever, the said sum of seven | hundred and forty pounds currency in goods at the Montreal price, which sum the said Chiefs and Principal People, parties hereunto, acknowledge as a full consideration for the lands hereby sold and conveyed to His Majesty. | In Wirxess Wuereor, the parties have hereunto set their hands and seals on the | day first above mentioned in the Township of Hope, Smith’s Creek. Signed, sealed and delivered in the W. Cuaus, Depy. Supt. Gen. I.A., presence of on behalf of the Crown. [L.8.] J. Givins, 8.I.A. BUCKQUAQUET, (totem) ‘[L.S8.] Wm. Hanps, Sen., Clerk Ind. Dept. PISHIKINSE, (totem) bere Wm. Gruet, Interpreter, Ind. Dept. PAHTOSH, (totem) [L.S8.]J CA¢HGAHKISHINSE, (totem) ES CAHGAGEWIN, (totem) Sal PININSE, (totem) (LE.S7 The manner in which the yearly payment was to have been made to you, for the lands which you had ceded to the Crown on the fifth day of November, 1818, not having been sufficiently explicit and defined in the Provisional Agreement : In order to obviate any difficulty or misconstruction which -might hereafter arise I have | called you together for the purpose of explaining to you the manner in which it is intended that the payment shall be made and in order that you may subscribe your names on the back of the Provisional Agreement as acquiescing and approving of the same as follows. viz.:—Every man, woman and child to receive to the amount of ten dollars in goods at the Montreal prices, so long as such man, woman or child shall live, but such annuity to cease and be discontinued to be paid in right of any individual who may have died between the respective periods of payment, and the several indi- viduals then living, only, shall be considered as entitled to receive the yearly payment of ten dollars in goods as above stated. F No. 21. ARTICLES OF PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT entered into on the ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, between John Aiken, Esquire, on behalf of His Majesty of the one part, and Tommago, Weyawawenind, Nawbowe, Maytoyzewon, Sawgawswy, Moquammiss, Tekummegawsay, Paymekawnawwassegay, Quoikkegick, Pawbetang and Wahwejawtin, Principal men of the Chippewa Nation of Indians inhabiting the tract of land hereinafter described, of the other part. Witnesseth: That for and in consideration of the yearly sum of six hundred pounds Province currency, one-half in specie and the other in goods at the Montreal price, to be well and truly paid yearly and every year by His said Majesty to the said Chippewa Nation inhabiting and claiming the said tract of land which may be otherwise known as follows, viz. :—Commencing on the northerly side of the River Thames at the south- west angle of the Township of London ; thence along the western boundary line o£ the Township of London in a course twenty-one degrees thirty minutes west twelve miles to the north-west angle of the said township ; then on a course about south sixty-two degrees thirty minutes west forty-eight miles more or less, until it intersects a line on a course produced north two males from the north-east angle of the Shawanoe Township ; then south two miles to the north-east angle of the said Shawanoe Town- ship; then along the eastern boundary line of the said township twelve miles and e-half, more or less, to the northern boundary line of the Township of Chatham ; then east twenty-four miles, more or less, to the River Thames ; then along the water’s edge ot the River Thames against the stream to the place of beginning, reserving a tract ot land (colored red) on the plan accompanying this description situate on the norther- ly side of the River Thames nearly opposite to the northerly angle of the Township of Southwold and south-west angle of the Delaware Township, containing fifteen thou- sand three hundred and sixty acres; also reserving two miles square distant about i—4 q 50 four miles above the rapids near the source of Big Bear Creek, where the Indians have their improvements, and nearly parallel to the Moravian Village containing five thou- sand one hundred and twenty acres, leaving five hundred and fifty two thousand one hundred and ninety acres, more or less, for the contents of the purchase. And the said Tommago, Weyawwenind, Nawbowe, Maytoyzewon, Sawgawsway, Moquammiss, Te- kummegawsay, Paymekawnawwassegay, Quoik-kegick, Pawbetang and Wahwejawtin — as well for themselves as for the Chippewa Nation inhabiting and claiming the said tract ot land as above described, do freely, fully and voluntarily surrender and convey the same to His Majesty without reservation or limitation in perpetuity. And the said John Aiken, Esquire, on behalf of His Majesty, does hereby promise and agree to pay to the said Nation of Indians inhabiting as aforementioned yearly, and every year, for ever, the said sum of six hundred pounds Province currency, one half in specie, and the other half in goods at the Montreal price, which sum the said Chiefs and Principal People, parties hereunto, acknowledge as a full consideration for the lands hereby sold and conveyed to His Majesty. [x Witness Wrwreor, the parties have hereunto set their hands and seals on the day first above mentioned in the Township of Malden. Signed, sealed and delivered in the) Joun AIKEN, presence of: on behalf of the Crown. [L.S8.] THEOP. Hunt, Capt., 70th Regt. TomMaco, (totem) [L.S.] H. ol. Wittson, Lieut., Royal Eng. WEYAWWENIND, (totem) [L.8.] R. RunasaMeE, Surg., Indian Dept. NAwBOoWE, (totem) rES.| J. Browne, Ens., 70th Regt. MAYTOYZEWON, (totem) [L.8.] GEO. [RONSIDE, SAaGawsway, (totem) [L.8.] Geo. F. Rapp, Int’r, Indian Dept. MoquaMMISs, (totem) [L.S.] J. Bre. Caporte, Int’r. TEKUMMEGAWSAY, (totem) [L.S.] PAYMEKAWNAWWASSEGAY, (totem) [L.S] QUOIKKEGICK, (totem) [L.8.] PAWBETANG, (totem) [L.S.] WAYWEJAYTIN, (totem) [L.8.] KAYNOTANG, (totem) [L.S.] No. 22. Tus INDENTURE, made the twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, between Acheton, Newoiquequash, Woiqueshe- quome, Paushetawnouquitohe and Wabakagige, the Principal Chiefs, Warriors and people of the Mississagua Nation of Indians of the one part, and His Majesty George the Third, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, of the other part, Witnesseth: that for and in con- sideration of the sum of twenty shillings of lawful money of the Province of Upper Canada by His-said Majesty to the said Acheton, Newoiquequah, Woiqueshequome, Paushetawnouquitoke and Wabakagige in hand well and truly paid at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipts whereof the said Acheton, New- ciquiquah, Woiqueshequome, Paushetawnouquitohe, Wabakagige, do hereby acknow- ledge, and of and from the same and every part thereof do acquit, release and dis- charge His said Majesty, His heirs and successors for ever by these presents. They the said Acheton, Newoiquequah, Woiqueshequome, Paushetawnouquitohe and Wabakagige, have and each of them hath granted, bargained, sold, released, surrendered, and forever yielded up, and by these presents do and each of them doth grant, bargain, sell, release, surrender, and forever yield up unto His said Majesty, His heirs and suecessors, all that parcel or tract of land situate, being and lying in Township of Toronto, in the County of York, in the Home District and |