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or tract of land, hereditaments and premises hereby surrendered and yielded up, or
intended so to be, with their and every of their rights, members and appurtenances,
unto His said Majesty King George the Fourth, His heirs and successors, to the
only proper use, benefit and behoof of His said Majesty, His heirs and successors
forever. And the said William Claus, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian
Affairs, as aforesaid, on behalf of our said Lord the King, His heirs and successors
doth hereby for himself and his successors in the said office covenant, promise and
agree to and with the said Nawacamigo. Anteniwayway, Kabratsiwaybiyebe,
Wabakeek, Shewitagan, Kotanche, Nawakeshecom, Shawandais, Kiwaishe, Nibino-
winin, Kakekijick, Papewaun, Wabekenense, Naganseway, Ketchegam, Kamenjon-
weney, Shebeshe, Nacawagan and Wabasek, that he, the said William Claus, and his
successors in the said office, shall and will well and truly pay, or cause to be paid,
untv each man, woman and child of the said Mississagua Nation of Indians who at
the time of entering into the said agreement inhabited and claimed the said tract of
land, and to their descendants and posterity forever, an annuity of two pounds and
ten shillings of lawful money of Upper Canada, in goods and merchandise at the
Montreal price, provided always that the number of persons entitled to receive the
same shall in no case exceed two hundred and fifty-seven persons, that being the
number of persons claiming and inhabiting the said tract at the time of concluding
the provisional agreement hereinbefore mentioned.

Ix Witness Wuereor, the parties to these presents have hereunto set their
hands and seals the day and year first above written. The Indians not knowing how
to write, have made their marks against their respective seals.

Signed, sealed and delivered in ret NawacaMico, (totem) . [L.8.]
presence of: ANTENEWAYWAY, (totem) [L.8.]
J. P. HAwEINs, KABRATSIWAYBIYEBE (totem)  [L.8.]
Major 68th Regt. and Lt.-Col., WABAKEEK, (totem) [L.8.]
Wm. Smytu, Lieut. 68th Regt., SHEWITAGAN, (totem) [L.8.]
Joun Ferquson, I.1.D. NAWAQUARKECOM, (totem) [L.8.]
, SHAWANDAIS, (totem) [L.S.]
PEJEHEJECK, (totem) fis. ]
PAPEWAN, (totem) oes,
WABECKENEME, (totem) [L.8.]
NAGANASAWAY, (totem) [L.8.]
SHEBESHEE, (totem) [L.8.]
NAIQUAKAN, (totem) (cS:
WABANZICK, (totem) PRES]

No. 2°74.

ProvisioNAL AGREEMENT made and entered into at Amherstburg, in the Western
District of the Province of Upper Canada, this 26th day of April, in the year of Our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, between James Givins, Esquire,
Superintendent of Indian Affairs, in behalf of His Majesty George the Fourth, by the
Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Treland, King, Defender
of the Faith, &., &c., &c., of the first part, and Way-way-nosh Osali-a-wip, Shau-
squa-ge-wan, Scho-quo-na, Puck-a-nonee, Ne-gig, Oge-bick-in, Macada-gick-o, Mich-i-
ke-ha-bick, Ani-mick-ence, Petaw-wick, Wa-pa-gace, Shaw-wi-ni-penance, Shaw-gi-
nosh, Ano-ta-win, Penece-o-quin, Cha-o-ge-man, Chi-ka-ta-yan, Mo-ke-ge-wan and
Equoc-ke-gan, Chiefs and Principal Men of that part of the Chippawa Nation of In-
dians inhabiting and claiming the territory or tract of land hereinafter described, of
the second part, Witnesseth: that for and in consideration of the yearly sum of eleven
hundred pounds lawful money of the said Province to be paid as hereinafter mentioned,
and subject to the conditions hereinafter expressed, the said party of the second part
have freely, fully and voluntarily consented to surrender and conyey, and by these pre-

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sents do freely, fully and voluntarily surrender and convey to His said Majesty the —
following territory or tract of land, which may be known as follows: Commencing on
the division line between the Home District and the District of London, at the most
northerly angle of the District of Gore, being at the distance of fifty miles on a
course north fifty degrees west from the outlet of Burlington Bay on Lake
Ontario: thence in a course about north eighty-four degrees west so as to strike
Lake Huron ten miles and three-quarters north of the mouth of a large river
emptying in the said lake, called by Captain Owen, of the Royal Navy, Red River
Jason, seventy miles, more or less, to Lake Huron; then southerly along the shore

of Lake Huron, crossing the mouth of said river and following the several turnings —
and windings of the said lake along the water’s edge to the River St. Clair;
thence southerly down the said river, with the stream, until it intersects th |
north-west angle of the Shawanoe Township at a hickory tree ‘marked with a
broad arrow on two sides, half a chain above the mouth of a small river; thence
east along the boundary of said township to the north-east angle thereof, nine
hundred and twenty-three chains, more or less; thence north two miles; then in a
course about north sixty-two degrees thirty minutes east 80 as it will intersect the
north-west angle of the said Township of London in a straight line, forty-eight miles
more or less to the north-west angle of the said Township of London; thence along
the northern boundary of the Township of London in a course north sixty-eight
degrees thirty minutes east nine hundred and sixty chains, more or less, to the north-
east angle of the said township; thence south twenty-one degrees thirty minutes
east along the eastern boundary line of the said T ownship of London to the purchase
line in 1796; thence along the said purchase line, being the northern boundary of
Oxford and Dorchester North, in a course north sixty-eight degrees thirty minutes
east until it intersects the purchase line in 1792, at the Upper Fork of River La
Tranche or Thames, near the south-west angle of the Township of Blandford; thence
northerly and westerly up and along the eastern edge of the said river against the
stream until it intersects the third line, in a sopth course from the outlet of Burling-
ton Bay, of the said purchase in 1792; thence north along the said purchase line
twenty-four miles, more or less, until it intersects the northern boundary line of the
said purchase; thence north forty-five degrees east along the said boundary line
twenty miles, more or less, to the place of beginning—reserving the following
tracts of land, viz.: Four miles square at some distance below the rapids of the
River St. Clair, one mile in front by four deep, bordering on the said River St. Clair,
and adjoining to the Shawanoe Township; two miles square at the River aux Sable,
which empties into Lake Huron, and two miles at Kettle Point, Lake Huron, con-
taining twenty-three thousand and fifty-four acres, more or less, leaving two millions
seven hundred and fifty-six thousand nine hundred and sixty acres more or less, for
the contents of the purchase. And the said party of the second part, as well for
themselves, as for that part of the said Chippawa Nation of Indians inhabiting and
claiming the territory or tract of land as hereinbefore described, do freely, fully and
voluntarily surrender and convey the same and every part and parcel thereof to His
said Majesty, His heirs and successors, without reservation or limitation, in per-
petuity; and the said party of the first part, in behalf of His said Majesty, does
hereby covenant, promise and agree to pay, or cause to be paid, to the said party of
the second part, in manner following, viz.: It is agreed by the contracting parties
aforesaid that the aforesaid Chippawa Nation inhabiting and claiming the territory
or iract of land as aforesaid is composed of four hundred and forty individuals, each
of whom shall be entitled to share equally in the said yearly sum of eleven hundred
pounds lawful money as aforesaid, to be paid in goods at the Montreal price, which
annuity shall continue to be paid at the rate now fixed on, unless it shall happen
that the number of annuitants shall by death or removal fall below half the afore-
said number, in which case the annuity shall be reduced one-half, and continue so
reduced until the residue shall in like manner be reduced by one-half, when the
annuity shall also decrease in the same proportion, the same principle continuing to

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prevail. And which said annuity in manner and form as aforesaid the said party
of the second part do hereby acknowledge as a full remuneration for the territory or

tract of land hereby sold and conveyed to His said Majesty.
In Witness WHEREOF, the respective parties have hereunto set their hands and
geals the day and year herein first above mentioned, and in the sixth year of His

Majesty’s reign.

Signed, sealed and delivered (being first JAMES GIVINS,
read and explained) in the presence a on the part of the Crown [L.S.]
R. B. Coues, WAY-WAY-NOSH, (totem) Piss.
Major 76th Regt. Comg., OSAW-A-WIP, (totem) [L.S.]
W. Bampton, SHOWSQUAGEWAN, (totem) [L.8.]
Capt. 16th Regt., SHOQUONA, (totem) PS]
J. KENNEDY, PUCKENEUSE, (totem) pS]
Lt. 76th Regt., NeGic, (totem) [L.S.]
R. RIcHARDSON, OGE-BICK-IN, (totem) [L.8.]
Surgeon Indian Dept., MACADAGICKO, (totem) [L.8.]
J. B. CLENCH, MICHIKEHABECK, (totem) [L.S.]
Clerk Indian Affarrs, ANIMICKENCE, (totem) [L.8.]
Gerorce F. Rapp, PETAW-WICK, (totem) [L.8.]
Interpreter, Indian Dept., WA-PA-GACE, (totem) [L.S.]
Jos. St. GERMAIN, QHAW-WINE-PENENCE, (totem) [1.8.]
Interpreter, Indian Dept. SHAWGINOSH, (totem) (U.S8.]
ANOTOWIN, (totem) files3
PENENCE-0-QUIN, (totem) aS
CHAOGE-MAN, (totem) [L.8.]
CHIKATAYAN, (totem) [L.S.]
MOoKEGEWAN, (totem) [L.S.]
EQUOIKEGAN, (totem) [L.8.]

No. 28.

P. MAITLAND.
PROVINCE OF UPPER CANADA.

George tHE Fourru, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith.

To all to whom these presents shall come,—GREETING :

Know Ye, that We, of Our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion,
have given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant unto the Honor-
able William Claus, of the Town of Niagara, in the County of Lincoln, in the
_ Niagara District, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, as heir-at-law
of his late mother, Anne Claus, widow of Colonel Daniel Claus, deceased, his heirs
and assigns forever, all that parcel or tract of land situate in the Township of
9 Hawkesbury, Eastern Division, in the County of Prescott, in the Ottawa District,
® in our said Province, containing by admeasurement five thousand acres, be the same
* ~ more or less, being lots Nos. fourteen, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-
| four, twenty-five, twenty-six, in th fourth concession ; lots Nos. thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three and twenty-
* five in the fifth concession ; and lots Nos. 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, and twenty-one, in the
a sixth concession of the said township, together with all the woods and waters lying
4 and being under the reservations, limitations and conditions hereinafter expressed ;
which said five thousand acres are butted and bounded, or may be otherwise known
as follows, that is to say : Commencing in front of the said concessions at the north-
east angle of each of the said lots respectively ; then south twenty-five degrees

west one hundred and five chains twenty-seven links, more or less, to the allowance
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