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Copy of a Report of a Committee of the Honorable the Executive Council, dated 4th
July, 1856, approved by His Excellency the Governor General in Council on tie

5th July, 1856.

On a letter from the Chief Superintendent of Indian Affairs of the 23rd June,
1856, transmitting a deed of surrender from Hannah Playter, John Langstaff, Lucy
Langstaff, John Arnold and Elizabeth Arnold to Her Majesty the Queen, in trust for
the use and benefit of the Mississaga Indians of the Credit, of lot number ten in first
concession, and lots number nine and ten in the front concession of the Township of
Southwold, in the County of Middlesex, containing about 450 acres, be the same
more or less. In order that the same may be sold and patented for the benefit of
the aforesaid Indians, and requesting that the same may be laid before Your Excel-
leney in Council, for the purpose of the trust being accepted and entered upon the
records in the offices of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and the Provincial
Registrar. .

The Committee recommend that the trust be accepted and entered upon the
records in the offices of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and of the Provincial

Registrar.

Certified,
WM. H. LEE,
Gs Px Gs

No. 66.

- Tuts InpENTURE, made and concluded this seventeenth day of June, in the year
of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, between William Yellowhead,
Thomas Naningeshkung, James Bigwind, George Young, Joseph Snake, John
Aissance, James Aissance, Peter Gadahgegwun and John Jones, the Principal
Chiefs, Warriors and people of the Indian Tribes commonly designated and known
as the Chippewas of Lakes Huron and Simcoe, of the one part, and Her Majesty the
Queen Victoria by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Treland, of the other part, Witnesseth: that for and in consideration of the sum of
| five shillings of lawful money of the Province of Canada by Her said Majesty to the
said William Yellowhead, Thomas Naningeshkung, James Bigwind, George Young,
Joseph Snake, John Aissance, James Aissance, Peter Gadahgegwun and John Jones.
well and truly paid at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the
receipt whereof they do hereby acknowledge, and for and in consideration of the
“urther condition and trust hereinafter contained and expressed, they the said
William Yellowhead, Thomas Naningeshkung, James Bigwind, George Young,
Joseph Snake, John Aissance, James Aissance, Peter Gadahgegwun and John Jones,
have and each and every of them hath granted, bargained, sold, released, sur-
rendered and forever yielded up, and by these presents do and each and every of
them doth grant, bargan, sell, release, surrender and forever yield up unto Her said
Majesty, Her heirs and successors, in trust, for the purpose of enabling her sald
Majesty, Her heirs and successors, to sell the same to the best advantage for the use,
benefit and behalf of them the said William Yellowhead, Thomas Naningeshkung,
James Bigwind, George Young, Joseph Snake, John Aissance, James Aissance,
Peter Gadahgegwun and John Jones, and their people and_ posterity forever,
all that certain piece or parcel of land and premises situated, lying and_ being
in the northern division of the Township of Orillia, in the County of Simcoe, and in
the Province of Canada, being composed of part of lot number two in the first con-
cession of the said northern division of the said Township of Orillia, and com-
mencing at a post planted on the north side line of said lot, being twenty-one chains
and thirty-three links from the north-west angle of the said lot; thence north
sixty degrees east twelve chains to the centre of said first concession to a post
there planted; thence south thirty degrees east one chain forty links, more or less,
to a post planted and forming the jog in the said north side line; thence north sixty
degrees east eight chains to a post there planted; thence south thirty degrees east
eight chains twenty-five links to a post there planted; thence south sixty degrees
west forty-one chains thirty-three links, more or less, to the township line between
the Townships of Orillia and Medonte; then north thirty-three degrees west one
chain: thence north sixty degrees east twenty-one chains thirty-three links’ to -a
post there planted; thence north thirty degrees west eight chains and sixty-five
links. be the same more or less, to the place of beginning; containing by admeasure- —
ment twenty aeres and fifty perches of land, more or less. Together with all the
rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining,
and all the estate and interest of them the said Wilham Yellowhead, Thomas
Naningeshkung, James Bigwind, George Young, Joseph Snake, John Aissance,
Tames Aissance, Peter Gadahgegwun and John Jones, their tribe, nation and people.
To have and to hold the same to Her said Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and succes-
sors, for the purpose herein already mentioned forever.

Ix TestimoNy Wuereor, the said Principal Chiefs and Warriors, on their own
behalf as well as on behalf of their tribe, nation and people, do hereunto make and
affix their sign or totem against their seals, respectively, at Orillia, on the day and
date first herein written.

Read, explained in Council,] Cuter WILLIAM YELLOWHEAD, (his totem) [L.8.j
signed, sealed and deliv-} Cure THOMAS NANINGESHKUNG, (his totem) [L.5. ]
ered in tne presence of: | Cur James Biewinp, (his totem) [L.8.]

ADAM PATERSON, Curer GEORGE YouNG, (his totem) [L.S.]
Comm’r. Queen’s Bench, Cutnr JosEpH SNAKE, (his totem) (ales
JoHN Simpson, Crier Joun AISSANCE, (his totem) [L.8.]
JOSEPH NANINGESHKUNG, Crier JAMES AISSANCE, (his totem) [L.8.]
Interpreter. Guier Joun JONES, (his totem) [L.8.]
PETER GADAHGEGWUN, (his totem) [L.8.]

Certified,

T. G. ANDERSON, V.S.I.A.

W. B. Hamilton, witness to
the signature of :
JAMES AISSANCE,
John Simpson, witness +o
the signature of :
JOHN JONES,
CHARLES KeEESHICK, Interpreter,
John Simpson, Frederick C. M.
Fraser, witness to the signa-

ture of :
Perer GADAHGEGWUN,  ]
JOHN SIMPSON. \
Certified,
TG, ANDERSON, S74 Hebe
No. 663.

Know ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that we, John Natty and Frederick Fisher,
Chiefs of the Band of Chippewa Indians of the Township of Anderdon, in the County
of Essex, and Western District of the Province of Canada, in Council assembled, do
hereby surrender and yield up unto Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria, Her
heirs and successors, all our right, title, interest, claim, property and demand
whatsoever, both at law and in equity, of, in and to that tract or parcel of land

situate, laying and being in Block (C) +n the township, county, district and Province
y five in the fourth concession, and the north

oncession of the said township, containing ~
be the same more or less, with all and

aforesaid, being composed of lot numbe
half of lot number four in the fourth ce
by admeasurement three hundred acres,