130 No. 352. Know att Men sy THESE Presents, THAT: WE, the undersigned Chief and Principal men of The Serpent River Band of Indians resident on our Reserve on Serpent River in the district of Algoma in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, for and acting on behalf of the whole people of our said Band in Council assembled, Do hereby release, remise, surrender, quit claim and yield up unto Our Sovereign Lady The Queen, her Heirs and Successors forever, ALL AND SINGULAR, that certain parcel or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the Serpent River Indian Reserve in the District of Algoma and Province of Ontario containing by admeasurement about four hundred and fifty acres, land and water, be the same more or less and being composed of that part of said Serpent River Indian Reserve, on the North and South sides of the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which traverses the said Serpent River Indian Reserve, East and West, described as follows, that is to say:—Commencing where a post has been planted on the Southerly boundary of the right of way of the Canadian Pacific Railway said post being dis- tant fifty feet southerly of a point on the Centre line of said Railway, measured at right angles thereto, which point is distant one hundred and forty four chains and twenty links from eastern boundary of said Reserve westerly, measured along the centre line of said Railway from the intersection thereof with the easterly boundary of the Serpent River Indian Reserve; then South 2° 59’ East Ast. 39.65 chains, more or less, to where a post has been planted, thence south 30° 13’ West, -51.19 chains, more or less, to where a post has been planted; thence North 40° 17’ west 99.47 chains, more or less, to where a post has been planted on the southerly boundary of the right of way of the Canadian Pacific Railway, thence Easterly and following the said southerly boundary to the place of beginning. Secondly. Commencing where a post has been planted on the Northerly boundary of the Canadian Pacific Railway, said post being distant fifty feet Northerly of a point on the centre line of said Railway, measured at right.angles thereto, which point is distant one hundred and forty four chains and twenty links from the eastern boundary of said Reserve westerly, measured along the centre line of said Railway, from the intersection thereof with the Easterly boundary of the Serpent River Indian Reserve; thence North 2° 59’ West five chains more or less, to where a post has been planted; thence Wgsterly and following the course of the said Railway at a parallel distance of five chains, more or less, therefrom to where a post has been planted at the production northerly of the Westerly boundary of the before described lot, at a distance of five chains northerly from the Northerly boundary of the right of way of said Railway; thence southerly and along the production of said Westerly boundary five chains, more or less, to where a post has been planted; thence Easterly and along said Northerly boundary of said Railway to the place of beginning, all as shown on plan by Jos. Cozens, O.L.S. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty THe Queren, her Heirs and Successors forever, in trust to lease the same to such person or persons, and upon such terms as the Government of the Dominion of Canada may deem most conducive to our welfare and that of our people. AND upon the further condition that all moneys received from the leasing thereof, shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management, be paid to us and our descendants as may seem best in our interest to the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs. AND WE, the said Chief and Principal men of the said Band of Indians do on behalf of our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confirm, and promise to ratify and confirm, whatever the said Government may do, or cause to be lawfully EA AL YOG/ "94g 11 : aSDsiB0g 9 Lap/1D aye SAIPJJY URIpU| Jo -ydaq SOLU ECE YEA CY SOLU sohaning jalyg YER 9 QLLOS 29L OY “B22 -G77?YO by (> AORBILAL O/L222UO IP UIMUIULM fy PUPZOD 26f uolqanpas 4294109 Y VUODTIO 19 LWELSID PAYISTY NYLON] HIMY LNISYTO FLIS 771M THUASS BYFUND WWE (OPEL - Llp wr °° * yynEY vy he hy ray ung fousioye CINE FHL IO NYT of WLA LAA ad 10,97 8POWMOT YOB/ yO) YILOW 710/04 10/fobWYYFZ Ur sb f | L0/p20240590 4 131 done, in connection with the leasing of the said parcel of land and the disposal of the rent derived therefrom. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this Seventeenth day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety four. i ivered, in the pre- his nee = pled and Ue lieret moe ANTOIN x OsowasHKociIaG Chief [L.S.] Gro. L. Curry eee ONESIME PELTIER TisisH x Kocwie 2nd Chief [L.S.] mark WILLIAM NAHNONON [L.8.] his MIJAKIGABAW x pS] mark his MAmniAWASIGE x [L.S.] mark : his JACOB x ASHKABOSS [L.8.] mark his Ropert x OJAWASHKOGISIG [L.8.] mark JAMES SIMPSON [L.S.] his Louvre x MAtowasicE [L.8.] mark nis JOSEPH x KIJIGAD [L.8.] mark PrErER OSHKAHBOOS [L.8.] his 2 Louis x GIJADJIWAN [L.8.] mark Louis KisaGap [L.8.] DOMINION OF CANADA, Personally appeared before me, George PROVINCE OF ONTARIO Lang Chitty of the City of Ottawa in the District OF ALGOMA Province of Ontario, Timber Inspector To Wit: and Antoin Ojowashkogijig Chief of the said Band of Indians. AND the said George Lang Chitty for himself saith :— That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by a majority of the male members of the said Band of Indians of the Serpent River Indian Reserve of the full age of twenty-one years then present. That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band summoned for that purpose and according to their Rules. That he was present at such meeting or council and heard such assent given. That he was duly authorized to attend such council or meeting by the Super- intendent General of Indian Affairs. That no Indian was present or voted at said council or meeting who was not a member of the Band or interested in the Jand mentioned in the said Release or Sur- render. And the said Antoin Ojowashkogijig says: 132 That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by him and a majority of the male members of the said Band of Indians of the full age of twenty-one years then present. That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band of Indians summoned for that purpose, according to their Rules, and held in the presence of the said That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not a habitual resident on the Reserve of the said Band of Indians or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Surrender. That he is a Chief of the said Band of Indians and entitled to vote at the said meeting or council. Sworn before me by the Deponents at the Town of Sault Ste. Marie in the Grorce L. Currry District of Algoma this 19th day of iia March A.D., 1894, the said Antoin { Angorn x OJOWASHKOGIJIG Ojowashkogigig making his mark mark thereto in my presence. Frep W. JoHNSTON Judge, Algoma Accepted by the Governor in Council on the 10th April- 1894. JOHN J. McGEE Clerk of the Privy Council Recorded 28th April 1894 Lib 140 Fol. 303 L. A. CATELLIER Dep. Registrar General of Canada. No. 353. AGREEMENT made in Duplicate, the Sixteenth day of April in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety Four on behalf of the Govern- ment of Canada on the One part and on behalf of the Government of Ontario on the other part in pursuance of the Statute of Canada passed in the Fifty Fourth and Fifty Fifth years of Her Majesty’s Reign, Chaptered Five and intituled “ An Act for the Settlement of certain questions between the Governments of Canada and Ontario, respecting Indian lands ”, and the Statute of Ontario passed in the Fifty Fourth year of Her Majesty’s Reign, Chaptered Three and intituled “ An Act for the settlement of certain Questions between the Governments of Canada and Ontario respecting Indian Lands.” WHEREAS by Articles of a Treaty made on the Third of October, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy Three, between Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, by Her Commissioners the Honourable Alexander Morris, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba and the North West Territories, Joseph Albert Norbert Provencher, and Simon James Dawson, on the One part, and the Saulteaux tribe of the Ojibbeway Indians, inhabitants of the Country within the limits thereinafter defined and described by their chiefs chosen and named as thereinafter mentioned of the other part which said treaty is usually known as the North West Angle Treaty No. 3, the Saulteaux tribe of the Ojibbeway Indians and all other the Indians inhabiting the Country therein defined and described Surrendered to Her Majesty all their rights,