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Rand. assembled for that purpoze in accordance with the provisions of the Act, and
the seetion and subsections thereof referred to in the said preceding deed of sur-
render. |
THOMAS GORDON,
JOHN FRENCH, Chief.
Sworn before me at the City of London,
in the Province of Ontario, this pe
day of September, in the year of Our}
Lord one thousand eight hundred and|
seventy-six. J
WitwiaMm Enuior,
»Judge, County of Middlesex.
Reeorded 6th November, 1876.
Lib. S., Folio 377.
L. A. CATELLIER,
Dep. Registrar-General of Canada.

INjos >be

Kyow att Men BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, the Chiefs, Principal Men and
Warriors of the Mic-Mac Band of Indians, owning and residing on the Indian
Reserve at Wagadmatcook, in the County of Victoria, N.S., being this day assembled
with our people in general council, and ac‘ing for and on behalf of the whole mem-
bership of our said Band, and with the free consent of a majority thereof, as ex-
pressed in our said council, summoned for that purpose, in the presence of J oseph
B. McDonald, Indian Agent for District No. 7, in the Province of Nova Scotia, and
ethers, have agreed to surrender and yield up and do hereby surrender and yield
up unto Our Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her heirs and successors, in trust, to be
«-ld for the benefit of ourselves and our children, all that certain portion of our
said reserve, containing about sixty acres, more or less (60 acres, be the same more
or less), which may be described as follows, viz.:—Six small islands at the mouth
ot Middle River or Wagadmatcook Reserve aforesaid, numbered in the annexed
plan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and described as follows, that is to say:—No. 1 containing about
15 acres, No. 2 about 15 acres, No. 3 about 8 acres, No. 4 about 6 acres, No. 5 about
6 acres, and No. 6 about 7 acres, and three several small islets in close proximity to
each of the islands numbered 4 and 5 and other accretions or late formations of
carth added to or about the said described premises, being part of Middle River
Reserve, so called. .

To the end that the said described pieces of land, including the said late accre-
tions or added formations of land may be sold in such manner and on such terms as
the Honourable the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs may judge to be best
for our advantage ; and that the proceeds of the said land, as the same may be real-
ized, shall be properly invested and the interest to be derived therefrom paid over
to ourselves, our people and children, at the same times in each year as it is custom-
ary to pay our annuity and interest moneys.

Subject, nevertheless, to the following stipulations and conditions, namely: that
tlhe improvements, rents, and other advantages of the present occupants of all the
above described premises shall be faithfully valued, and the full and fair value of the
seme, together with all necessary and reasonable expenses of removal, paid to the
said occupants, their heirs or assigns, or invested for their benefit in providing new.
dwellings and other necessary improvements on other portions of the said reserve °
49 be allotted to the said parties, in lieu of the lands to be by them vacated.

And further, that fair compensation for any improvements made by other
parties on lots on which it may be found desirable to locate the parties to be re-
moved shall be granted, all to be paid from the proceeds of the sale of the above

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surrendered lands; and also, that from and out of the first moneys to be received
from the sale of the said lands there shall be made a distribution of two dollars to
each individual member of the Band residing at Wagadmatcook Reserve, aforesaid.

Tx Wrryzss to all which convenants and conditions we, the said Chiefs, Principal
Men and Warriors, have set our hands and seals to this surrender, executed in dup-
licate, and dated at Middle River, in the County of Victoria, Province of Nova
Scotia, and Dominion of Canada, this first day of September, in the year of Our

Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

Present: | his

Jos. B. McDonatp, ‘ NEWELL ao ADDLEY, [L.8.]
; y mark.
Indian Agent, Dist. No. 7, N.S.) Dreeer and ‘Omer.
his
JOHN xX RICHARD, ES.
mark. ; d
Captain and Chief.
his :
Lewis x NEWELL, feloseei
mark. oie
One of the Principal Men.
his
Prrro xX CREMEANS, [L.S.]
mark.

One of the Principal Men.

Personally came and appeared before me at Baddeck, in the County of V
in the Province of Nova Seotia and Dominion of Canada, Joseph B. McDonald,
Indian Agent for District No. 7, in the said Province, and John Richard, Captain
and Chief, whose name is subscribed as a party to the foregoing instrument, and
made oath that they were present when the Band of Mic-Mac Indians, or a majority
of them, residing on the Reserve at Middle River, in said county, assented to the
surrender of the above described premises, on the day and in the year above men-
tioned, who were entitled to vote at a meeting called for that purpose agreeably to

their rules.

ictor1a, «

Sworn to at Baddeck this sixteenth day} eae
of September A.D. 1876, before me, B.; ee ae LIAO ecu
E. Tremaine, one of the Judges of tae > JOHN x RICHARD,
County Courts in Nova Scotia (con-| mark.

tents being first read and explained.) } Ind. Chief and Captain.

Recorded 15th Novembey, 1876.
Lib. S., Folio 384.

L. A. CATELLIER,
Dep. Registrar-General of Canada.

No. 156.

Surrenper by the Chief and Band of the Ojibway Indians residing on their Re-
serve in the Township of Rama, in the County and Province of Ontario and

Dominion of Canada.

Know att MEN By THESE Presents that we, the undersigned Chief and Principal
Men of the Rama Band of Ojibway Indians, resident on our Reserve in the Township