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J. Br. KEWETASH, X [L.8.]
NoOnBAIE, X [L.s.]
PENAISIE, X [L.S.]
PELAWISS, X [L.8.]
CHARLEY, X [L.8S.]
FERMANDE, X LL.S.]
Nin BIEEL, x [L.8.]
JOSEPH BOUCHER, X [L.S.]
MicHEL DESCJHAMPS, x [L.S.]
KKATCHKIJIKEVEKANG, [L.8.]
J.gba. VIZINA, x ~ Lliesal

Copy of a Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Executwe Council, dated the
20th July, 1859, approved by Hus Excellency the Governor General in Council

on 22nd July, 1859.

The Committee have had before them a report dated 16th July inst., from the
Superintendent General of Indian Affairs submitting an unconditional surrender by
the Chippewa Indians at Fort William, of part of the Indian Reserve near that
locality, also a report from Mr. Chesley and a diagram showing the tract ceeded, and
suggesting that the same be accepted.

The Committee recommend that the surrender be accepted accordingly, and be
enrolled in the usual manner in the offices of the Provincial Registrar and Com-
missioner of Crown Lands.
; Certified.

WM. H. LEE,
OR IRES
To the Honourable

The Provincial Registrar,
&e., &e., &e.
PrRovINCIAL REGISTRAR’S OFFICE,
Toronto, 29th July, 1859.

Ido hereby certify that this copy of report of Council and the surrender therein
referred to have been duly entered on the records of this cffice in Lib. O.S., Folios
205 to 207.

WM. KENT,
Deputy Registrar of the Province.

No. 98.

Kyow att Men sy THESE Presents that we, the undersigned Chiefs and
principal men of the band of Indians known as the Colpoy’s Bay Band, now residing
at Colpoy’s Bay in the County of Grey and Province of Canada, for certain good
reasons us thereunto moving, have, for ourselves as well as for every member of our
said band, ceded and by these presents do cede, relinquish, surrender and yield up
to Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria, and her successors, all our right, title,
interest and claim whatsoever that we now have or may hereafter pretend to have
to a certain tract of land containing six thousand acres situate lying and being on
the south-east side of Colpoy’s Bay, in the Township of Keppel, County of Grey and
Province of Canada, which said tract of land was set apart for us and zeserved to
our sole use by the Chippewa Indians of Saugeen and Owen Sound.

Now Know ve that we have been moved to make the surrender above alluded
to with the view of removing from our present place of, residence to join our
brethren, the Chippewas of Lakes Huron and Simcoe on the Christian Island.

We do, therefore, with the advice and consent of ovr said band in council
assembled hereby surreyder in trust to be sold for our benefit the aforementioned six
thousand acres of land upon the following conditions, that is to say :—
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ist. The land to be sold by auction without conditions of settlement, the terms
of sale to be one-fourth of the purchase money down and the remainder in six equal
annual instalments, bearing interest at six per cent, but no timber to be cut except
by actual settlers, on the condition on which timber on Crown lands may now be
cut, until purchase money is paid up in full, and the proceeds, after deducting cost
of survey, sale and other incidental expenses, to be funded for the benefit of the
Colpoy’s Bay Band of Indians. |

2nd. The value o* the individual and public improvements to be required of the
purchaser at the time of sale, in order that the amount may be paid over to the
Indians. :

In Wirness WuerEOF we have hereunto set our hands and seals with our totems
at Colpoy’s Bay this sixteenth day of August, in the year of Our Lord one thousand
eight huudred and sixty-one.

Signed, sealed and delivered in our JosepH Jones, Chief, [L.5-4
presence, being first read, inter- JoHN SMITH (totem), Chief, [L.8.]
preted and explained: WALKER Smiru (totem), Councillor, [L.S.]

W. R. Barttett, S.1.A., Warriors:
F, T. Wixes, J., C. Crt. of Grey. THos. JONES (totem),

TsAac WAHBEGENEES (totein),
WILLIAM SAHGEWEBE (totem),
JAMES BARREL, :
Cuas. MEGIS (totem),
LUKE SNAKE (totem),

We do hereby certify that the foregoing surrender of the tract called Colboy’s
Bay Reserve, containing six thousand acres, has been assented to by the Chiefs of
the band of Indians known as the Colpoy’s Bay Band at a meeting of their council

this day assembled on the said reserve, summoned for that purpose according to their —

rules and in our presence.
Dated this seventeenth day of August, A.D., 1861.
F. T. WILKES,
Judge, County Crt., Count of Grey.
W. R. Barrett, S8.I.A.

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Copy of a Report of the Committee of the Honourable the Executive Council, approved
by His Excellency the Governor General nm Council on ihe 10th September, 1861.

On a memorandum dated 28th August, 1861, from the Honourable the Comi-
missioner of Crown Lands, submitting for acceptance by Your Excellency in
Council, under the Act, 23rd Vic., Cap. 151, Sec. 4, Art. 2, a surrender bearing
date 16th August, 1861, by the Colpoy’s Bay Indians, of six thousand acres of land,
situate in the Township of Keppel, in the County of Grey, U.C.

The Committee advise that the surrender be accepted and enrolled in the usual
manner in the offices of the Provincial Registrar and Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Certified.
WM. H. LEE,
C.E.C.
To the Honourable
The Commissioner of Crown. Lands,

&e., &e., &e.

PROVINCIAL REGISTRARS OFFICE,
QuEBEC, 12th September, 1861.

I hereby certify that this surrender has been entered on the records of this office
4- Lab CS. Foto 221.

WM. KENT,
Deputy Registrar.

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DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LaNbSs, September 13th, 1861.
Transferred to Indian Department. |

No. 94.

ARTICLES oF AGREEMENT and convention made and concluded at Manitowaning,
or the Great Manitoulin Island in the Province of Canada, the sixth day of October,
Anno Domini, 1862, between the Hon. William McDougall, Superintendent Genera!
of Indian Affairs, and William Spragge, Esq., Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs,
on the part of the Crown and Government of said Province, of the first part, and
Mai-she-quong-gai, Okemah-be-ness, J. B. Assiginock, Benjamin Assiginock, Nai-be
nesse-me, She-ne-tah-guw, George Ah-be-tos-o-mai, Paim-o-quo-naish-gung, Abence,
Tai-bose-gai, A-to-nish-cosh, Nai-wau-dai-ge-zhik, Wau-kau-o-say, Kersh-kewanbik,
Chiefs and Principal Men of the Ottawa, Chippewa and other Indians occupying the
said island, on behalf of the said Indians, of the second part.

Whereas, the Indian title to said island was surrendered to the Crown on the
ninth August, Anno Domini, 1836, under and by virtue of a treaty made between Sir
Francis Bond Head, then Governor of Upper Canada, and the Chiefs and Principal
Men of the Ottawas and Chippewas then occupying and claiming title thereto, in
order that the same might “be made the property (under their Great Father’s con-
trol) of all Indians whom he should allow to reside thereon.”

And whereas, but few Indians from the mainland, whom it was intended to
transfer to the island, have ever come to reside thereon.

And whereas, it has been deemed expedient (with a view to the improvement of
the condition of the Indians as well as the settlement and improvement of the country}
to assign to the Indians now upon the island certain specified portions thereof to be
held by patent from the Crown, and to sell the other, portions thereof fit for cultiva-
tion to settlers, and to invest the proceeds thereof, after deducting the expenses of
survey and management, for the benefit of the Indians.

And whereas, a majority of the chiefs of certain bands residing on that portion of
the island easterly of Heywood Sound and the Manitoulin Gulf, have expressed their
unwillingness to accede to this proposal as respects that portion of the island, but
have assented to the same as respects all other portions thereof, and whereas the
Chiefs and Principal Men of the bands residing on the island westerly of the said
sound and gulf, have agreed to accede to the said proposal.

Now this agreement witnesseth that in consideration of the sum of seven hundred
dollars now in hand paid (which sum is to be hereafter deducted from the proceeds of
lands sold to settlers) the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and in further con-
sideration of such sums as may be realized from time to time as interest upon the pur-
chase money of the lands to be sold for their benefit as aforesaid, the parties hereto of
the second part, have, and hereby do release, surrender and give up to Her Majesty the
Queen all right, title, interest and claim of the parties of the second part, and of the
Ottawa, Chippewa and other Indians in whose behalf they act, of, in and to the Great
Manitoulin Island, and also of, in and to the islands adjacent which have been deemed
or claimed to be appurtenant or belonging thereto, to have and to hold the same, and
every part thereof, to Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors forever. And it is hereby
agreed by and between the parties hereto as follows :—

Firstly. A survey of the said Manitoulin Island shall be made as soon as con-
veniently may be by or under the authority of the Department of Crown Lands.

Secondly. The Crown will, as soon as conveniently may be, grant by: deed for the
benefit of each Indian being the head of a family and residing on the said island, one
hundred acres of land; to each single person over twenty-one years of age, residing as
aforesaid, fifty acres of land; to each family of orphan children under twenty-one years
of age containing two or more persons, one hundred acres of land, and to each single
orphan child under twenty-one years of age, fifty acres of lanjl, to be selected and
located under the following rules and conditions :—