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DEPARTMENT OF SECRETARY OF STATE FOR CANADA, REGISTRATION BRANCH,
Ortawa, 19th February, 1868.

I hereby certify that this surrender and the original patent attached thereto
have this day been duly entered on the records of this office in Lib. C. S., Surrenders
to the Crown, Fol. 309.

HECTOR L. LANGEVIN,
Secretary of State and Registrar of Canada.

I certify that this Instrument was duly entered and registered in the Registry

Office for the County of Middlesex this 17th day of April, A.D. 1868, at 1 p.m., in
Book D, for the Township of Delaware as No. 1895. Pages 283, 284, 285.

ALEX. McDONALD,
Deputy Registrar.

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No. 192.

| We, the undersigned Chiefs and Principal Men of the Band of Indians owning
| the tract of land known as the Serpent River Indian Reserve, or Reserve No. 7 in
| the schedule of reserves under the Robinson Treaty, and being a majority of the
| male members of the said Band, of the full age of twenty-one years, habitually resid-
) ing on or near the reserve in question, duly assembled at a council of the said Band,
| ealled for the purpose, and according to the rules of the said Band, and held in presence
| of an officer duly authorized by the Honourable the Superintendent-General of Indian
| Affairs to attend such council, which said reserve is described in the treaty effected
on the 9th day of September, A.D. 1850, with the Chiefs and Principal Men of the
| Ojibway Tribe of Indians, inhabiting and claiming the eastern and northern shores
| of Lake Huron, by the Honourable William B. Robinson, on behalf of Her Majesty
| the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, as being “the peninsula east of Serpent
River and formed by it,” acting on behalf of the whole people of our said tribe, do
| 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 tract or
| parcel of land situate in the District of Algoma, in the Province of Ontario, being
composed of a portion of the said hereinbefore mentioned Serpent River Indian
Reserve, more particularly described as follows: Being the right of way required
| for the Canadian Pacific Railway through the said reserve, as shown by the annexed
| plan, commencing at station 813 x 06 near the north-west corner of Section 32 of the
| Township of Shedden, and extending westward through the said reserve to station
| 1223 at the crossing of the Serpent River, in the south-east quarter of Section 25 of

the Township of Spragge, being a total distance of 40, 994 feet, or 7°76 miles, by a
| width of 99 feet, and containing 95°16 acres.

To have and to hold the same unto Her said Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and
successors forever, in trust, to sell and convey the same to such person or persons
| and upon such terms as the Government of this Dominion shall or may deem con-
ducive to the interests of us the said Chief and Principal Men, and of our people in

all time to come.
And upon the further condition that the moneys received for the sale thereof,
shall, after deducting the usual proportions 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.

And we, the said Chief and Principal Men of the said Band do, on behalf of our
people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confirm whatever the said Government
| of this Dominion may do or cause to be lawfully done in connection with the disposal
| and sale of the said lands.

In Witness WuereEor we, the said Chief and Principal Men, have set our hands .

| and affixed our seals unto this Instrument in the said District of Algoma at Serpent
| River. |
Done at Serpent River Indian Reserve this thirtieth day of January, in the year
of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.

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District of ALGOMA, ]
To Wit: §

_ I, James C. Phipps, of Manitowaning, in the said district, Visiting Superintendens
of Indians, duly authorized by the Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs to a

the council of the Band of Indians referred to in the annexed surrender of right of
way for the Canadian Pacific Railway through the said reserve, do hereby certify
under oath that the annexed surrender was duly assented to by a majority of the
male members of the said Band of the full age of twenty-one years, who habitually
reside at or near the said reserve, at a meeting or council of the said Band summoned
according to their rules for that purpose, and held at Serpent River, in the said
district, on the thirteenth day of January, A.D. 1882, and at the same time duly

executed by the Chiefs and Principal Men of the said Band. :
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Certified and sworn to before me]
at Manitowaning, in the District| ‘
of Algoma, this fifteenth day of} JAS. ©. PHIPPS. 7a
May, A.D. 1882. |

WaLteR McOrEA, J
Judge, D.A.

District oF ALGOMA, |
To Wit: §
I, Tahbishkokezhik, of the Serpent River Indian Reserve, in the District of
Algoma, one of the Chiefs of the Band of Indians occupying the said Indian pase
do hereby certify under oath that I was personally present and did see the annexed
surrender of right of way through the said reserve for the Canada Pacific Railway
Company duly assented to by a majority of the male members of the said Band of
the full age of twenty-one years who habitually reside on the said reserve, at a meet
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ing or council of the said Band, summoned for that purpose according to the rules
of the said Band, and held at Serpent River, in the said district, on the thirtieth day
of January, A.D. 1882.

Certified and sworn to before me

at Algoma Mills, in the District TAHBISHKOKEZHIK ea
of Algoma, this twenty-third day onan
of May, A.D. 1882.

KE. B. Borron,

Stipendiary Magistrate.

No: 193:

Know att Men sy THESE Presents, that we, the undersigned Sachems, Princi-
pal Chiefs and Warriors of the Six Nation Indians, residing at the Grand River, in
the Province of Upper Canada, being desirous of enabling the issue of free letters
patent of the tract of land and premises hereinafter described unto Aaron Helmer, of
the County of Haldimand, District of Niagara, and the said premises not having
been included in any former surrender to the Crown, do by these presents surrender
and yield up unto Her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, all
that parcel or tract of land now in the possession of the said Aaron Helmer, of the
County of Haldimand, District and Province aforesaid, one of our people, situate,
lying and being in the County of Haldimand, District of Niagara, containing by ad-
~measurement one hundred acres of land, more or less, and being part of the territories
of the Six Nation Indians, and which said parcel or tract of land is butted and
beunded as follows, that is to say : Commencing at a stake planted on the east
boundary line of a piece of land belonging to the Grand River Navigation Company
at lock number one, and on the south side of the road leading from the Village of
Indiana to Canboro’; thence north eighty degrees, east forty chains and forty lnyks
to a stake; thence south thirteen degrees, west twenty-five chains to a stake; thence
south eighty degrees, west forty chains and forty links to a stake; thence north
thirteen degrees, east twenty-five chains to the place of beginning. To the end, in-
tent and purpose that Her Majesty may be graciously pleased and enabled to grant
letters patent unto the said Aaron Helmer, his heirs and assigns, free and clear of the
payment of any price or sum of money which His Excellency the Lieutenant-Goy-
ernor might otherwise think just and reasonable. The said one hundred acres of
land being thus freely granted unto the said Aaron Helmer, his heirs and assigns, for
and in consideration of the said Aaron Helmer’s attendance on the Six Nation
Tndians when afflicted with the small-pox, in the years 1837 and 1838.

In Witness WHEREOF, we have subscribed and set our hands and seals in council
the 21st day of Feb’y., in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
forty. :

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