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‘he said Tribe or Band of Indians, were present and also the said, other deponent, |
Thomas Gordon.

Sworn before me by the said deponents, ) : THOMAS GORDON,
[Thomas Gordon, Joseph Fisher, this} JOSEPH FISHER.
Sth day of October, A.D. 1881. J

F. Davis,

Judge of the County Court of the County of Middlesex.

Recorded 29th November, 1881.
Lib, 80, Folio 134.

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

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No. 185.

We, the undersigned Chiefs and Principal Men of the Band of Indians owning
the tract of land known as the Mississagua Indian Reserve, or Reserve No, 8, in the
schedule of reserves under the Robinson Treaty, and heme 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 the presence
of an officer duly authorized by the Honourable the Superintendent-General of
Indian Affairs to attend such council, which said reserve is described in the Treaty
effected on the 9th day of September, A.D. 1850, 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 Honourable William B. Robinson, on behalf of Her
Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, as being situated “between the
Rivers Mississagua and Penelew-abekong, up to the first rapids,” acting on behalf
of the whole people of oursaid Tribe, do hereby remise, release, surrender, quit claim
and yield up unto Our Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her heirs and successors forever,
all and singular that certain tract or parcel of land situate in the District of Algoma,
in the Province of Ontario, being composed of all that portion of the said herein-
’ before mentioned Mississagua Indian Reserve lying south of a line drawn due east
from the mouth of the creek which empties into the Mississagua River on the left
bank of the said river, a short distance below the falls, and opposite the trading post
of Edward Sayer. Also, so much of the land lying north of the said creek which is
now enclosed within a fence made by Theophile Texier, it being understood that the
said Texier or any person claiming under him is not to enlarge his clearing, or to
possess any right to allow his or their cattle to run on the reserve outside of the
said fenee, and containing about two thousand acres, be the same more or less.

To have and to hold the same unto Her said Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and
successors for ever, in trust, to sell and convey the same to such person or persons
and upon such terms as the Government of this Dominion shall or may deem con-
ducive to the interests of us, the said Chiefs and Principal Men, and of our people,
in all time to come. And upon the further condition that the moneys received for
the sale thereof shall, after deducting the usual proportions for expense of manage-
ment, be placed at interest, and that the interest money so accruing from such in-
vestment shall be paid annually or semi-annually to us and our descendants.

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

In Witness WuEREOF, we, the said Chief and Principal Men, have set our hands
and affixed our seals unto this Instrument in the said District of Algoma, at Miss-
issagua.

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Done at Mississagua Indian Reserve, this twenty-seventh day of July, in the
year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

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rized by the Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs to attend the council of the

Band of Indians referred to in the annexed surrender of reserve, and I, Bonekeosh,
the Chief of the said Band of Indians, do, and each for himself doth hereby certify

under oath, that the annexed surrender was duly assented to by a majority of the

male members of the said Band of the full age of twenty-one years who habitually
reside at or near the said reserve, at a meeting or council, of said Band summoned
according to their rules for that purpose and held at Mississagua, in the said District,
on the twenty-seventh day of July, A.D. 1881. And at the said time duly executed

by us and the Principal Men of the said Band.

Certified and sworn to before me at] JAS. C. PHIPPS,
Sault Ste. Marie, in the District of | Agent as above authorized.
Algoma, this 16th day of August, A.D.} his

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1881, and the same being first read|
and explained to the said Bonekeosh. |

Water McCRrEA,
Judge of the District of Algoma.
Recorded 15th November, 1881. |
Lib. 80, Fol. 132. {

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