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ist. We were both at the meeting of council of the Chippewa Indians of the
Thames, which meeting of council was held on the 25th inst., as stated in exhibit
\, hereunto attached.
2nd. The consent of a majority of the voting members was given to the Indian
Department at the said meeting of council to lease that portion of the said Indian
reserve which is occupied or owned by the said Band for shooting purposes, as set
forth in the said exhibit.
Sworn to before me at the City of |
don, in the County of Middlesex, this THOMAS GORDON,
27th day of July, A.D. 1883, by({ JOSEPH FISHER.

Thomas Gordon and Joseph Fisher. |

Wituiam Exuiort, .
Judge of the County Court, County of Middlesex.

No. 206.

This Indenture, made the twentieth day of June, in the year of Qur Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, between Thomas Hughes, of St. Mary’s, in
the County of York, farmer, of the one part, and Our Lady Queen Victoria, of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of the other part.

Witnesseth, that for and in consideration of the sum of twenty pounds of lawful
money of New Brunswick to the said Thomas Hughes in hand well and truly paid by
Our said Lady the Queen, at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents,
the receipt and payment whereof is hereby acknowledged, he the said Thomas Hughes
hath granted, bargained and sold, and by these presents doth grant, bargain and
sell unto Our said Lady the Queen, Her successors and assigns, all that certain piece
cr parcel of land and premises situate, lying and being in the parish and county
aforesaid, and in the Province of New Brunswick, directly opposite the city of
Fredericton, and bounded and described as follows, viz. : All that portion of lot
pumber twenty-two, third class, letter C, in the grant to the Maryland Loyalists, to
Xenophon Jouett, fourth of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and
bounded as follows : Beginning at the eastern bank or shore of the River St. John at
the western angle of the said lot number twenty-two; thence running north-easterly
along the upper side line of said lot (or along the lower line of lands owned by
Francis Hays) to the post road, thence south-easterly along the said road to a point
which is distant fourteen rods rectangularly from the said upper line of said lot, and
thence south-westerly parallel to said upper line to the bank or shore of the River
St. John above mentioned, and thence along the same up stream to the place of be-
ginning, containing two and a half acres more or less, being a part of the lands con-
veyed by the Reverend William Jaffrey and wife to the said’ Thomas Hughes, by
deed bearing date the fifteenth day cf June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five, duly recorded in Book P, No. 2, of Records, Deeds and
Wills for York County, pages 138 and 139, as by reference thereto will more fully
appear : together with all and singular the rights, members, privileges, improve-
ments and hereditaments whatsoever thereunto belonging or in anywise appertain-
ing ; and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and
profits thereof; also all the estate, right, title, interest, property, possession, claim
and demand whatsoever of the said Thomas Hughes, in law or equity, of, in, to or
out of the said lands and premises, and every part thereof, to have and to hold all and
singular the lands and premises, hereby granted, bargained and sold, or intended
so to be, with the appurtenances unto Our said Sovereign Queen Victoria, Her suc-
cessors and assigns, to the only proper use, benefit and behoof of Our said Sovereign
Queen Victoria, Her successors and assigns forever.

Iy Wirvess Wuereor, the said Thomas Hughes, hath hereunto set his hand and
seal: and Margaret, wife of the said Thomas Hughes, hath also hereunto set her
band and seal, in token of her relinquishment of dower or thirds, and of all right

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and title to dower in the lands and premises above described and hereby conveyed
on the day and year first hereinbefore written.

Signed, sealed and delivered in| THOMAS RUGHES, [L.S.]
the presence of her
Joun GuvIon. MARGARET x HUGHES. Ss
mark.
YorK.
To Wit:

Be it remembered that on the twentieth day of June, in the year of Our Lord
ene thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, before me, John Guion, Esquire, one of
Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in and for the County of York, personally came
and appeared Thomas Hughes, the party to the foregoing deed, and acknowledged
that he signed, sealed and delivered the same for the uses and purposes therein
mentioned; also at the same time appeared Margaret, wife of the said Thomas
Hughes, who being by me examined separate and apart from her said husband,
acknowledged that she signed, sealed and delivered the said deed freely and volun-
tarily, and without any fear, threat or compulsion from her said husband, for the
uses and purposes therein mentioned.

JOHN GUION,
J. P. for York County.

Kyow att Men sy tHEesr Presents, that I, the Reverend William Jaffrey, of
St. Mary’s, in the County of York, clergyman of the Church of England, in consider- .
ation of the sum of five shillings of lawful money of New Brunswick to me paid by
Our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria in the foregoing deed named at and before the
ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt and payment whereof I do hereby
acknowledge, and also in consideration of the said sum of twenty pounds mentioned
in the said deed being paid over to me by Our said Lady the Queen therein named,
have remised, released and forever quitted claim, and by these presents do remise
release, and forever quit claim unto Our said Lady the Queen, Her successors and
assigns, all and all manner of right, title, interest, claim and demand whatsoever,
both at law and in equity, which I now have into and out of the piece of land and
premises described and conveyed in the foregoing deed, so that neither I, the said
William Jaffrey, nor my heirs, executors or administrators, shall or may at any time
or times hereafter have claim, pretend to challenge or demand any right, title or
interest claim or demand whatsoever into or out of the said piece of land and pre-
mises above described and conveyed, or any part thereof, by virtue of any mortgage
upon the said land at present held by me, the said William Jaffrey, from the said
Thomas Hughes, which now doth or which may or can in law or equity bind the said
jand above mentioned, or otherwise howsoever, but that Our said Sovereign the
Queen, Her successors and assigns, and the said lands and premises hereinbefore
released and conveyed shall from henceforth and forever hereafter be exonerated
and discharged of and from the said mortgage, and of and from all claim and demand
whatsoever which I might or could have in respect thereof or otherwise howsoever.

In Witvess Wuereor, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty-eighth
day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Signed, sealed and delivered in]

the presence of \ WILLIAM JAFFREY. fL.S:]
SAMUEL DAYTON.
YorRK.
To Wit:

Be it remembered that on the twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of Our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, before me, Samuel Dayton, Esq.,
cne of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said County of York, personally
came and appeared the Rev. William Jaffrey, the party to the foregoing release,
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end acknowledged that he signed, sealed and delivered the same for the uses and
purposes therein mentioned. 4
SAMUEL DAYTC

New Brunswick,
York County. \

No. 25781, registered in Book F, 3, pages 260, 261 and 262, this 13th
Mareh, A.D. 1876. |
A. D. YER

No. 207,

We, the undersigned Chief and Principal Men of the Band of Indians owning —
the tract of land known as Reserve No. 3, and described in the treaty effected on the |
9th day of September, in the year of one Lord one thousand eight hundred and
fifty, 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 omourable I
William Benjamin Robinson, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain —
and Ireland, as “commencing at Point Grondine, then westward, two miles in front
by six miles inland, so as to include the small lake Nepinassing,” in the District of
Algoma, in the jae eaiwes of Ontario, and Dominion of Canada, and laid down on a
plan by John Stoughton Dennis, Provincial Land Surveyor, dated 12th May, 1852,
on file in the head office of Indian Affairs at Ottawa; being a majority of the male
members of the said band of the full age of twenty-one years habitually residing on
or near the reserve in question, duly assembled at a council of the said Band called
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, do hereby consent and agree to surrender, and by
this Instrument do surrender to Her Gracious Majesty aforesaid, Her heirs and
successors, in trust, to be sold for the joint benefit of our Band aforesaid, on such
terms and conditions as to Her said Majesty’s Government of Canada shall seem
proper, the whole of the merchantable timber on our said reserve, the entire proceeds
of the sale of the said timber to be invested for our sole joint benefit and for the
benefit of our descendants for all time to come in such manner as to the said Govern-
ment of Canada shall seem to be most conducive to the interests of our said Band.

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

In Wirness WuHeEREOF, we, the undersigned Chief and Principal Men of the Band
aforesaid and as representing the entire said Band, have hereunto set our hands and
affixed our seals at Grumbling Point, in the said District of Algoma, this thirty-first
day of May, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.

Signed, sealed and delivered) ae his ae
in presence of RAEI TL: [48.]
JAMES C. PHIPPS, his
Visiting Supt. J. Barre. AHMUTCHEWAIKEZHIK x [L.S.]
P. R. pDELAMORANDIERE, a" mark.
1s
verpreter.
Interpreter SHEBAUGHESICK x [L.8.]
mark.
his
KAIKAIKOUCE | x [L.8.]
mark.
his
AMAB SHEBAUGHESICK xX [L.8.]
mark.