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No. 433,

(No deed of this number.) -

No. 434,

THIS INDENTURE made in duplicate the 12th day of May A.D. 1900 IN
PURSUANCE OF THE ACT RESPECTING SHORT FORMS OF CONVEY-

ANCES;

Between ALEXANDER’ EDWARD KENNEDY of the Township of Smith in
the County of as te Farmer, hereinafter called the “ Vendor” ” of the First

Part;

LUCINDA 8. KENNEDY of the same place, wife of the Vendor, of
the Second Part;

THE COMPANY for PROPAGATION of the GOSPEL in NEW
ENGLAND and the PARTS ADJACENT in AMERICA, a body corporate and
politic (hereinafter called the “ Company”) of the Third Part; and

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN herein represented by THE SUPER-
INTENDENT GENERAL OF INDIAN AFFAIRS for the DOMINION OF
CANADA (hereinafter called the “ Government”) of the Fourth Part.

WHEREAS The Company was formerly seized of an Estate in fee simple in
the lands and premises hereinafter mentioned and hereby conveyed or intended so to
be which said lands and premises they permitted the Mississagua Band of Indians
at Mud Lake then to occupy as a reserve;

AND WHEREAS by Indenture bearing date the 12th day of October A.D. 1898,
and made between The Company of the First part and the Government of the Second
Part, The Company granted and conveyed to the Government part of the said lands
and premises (as in said conveyance particularly described) in trust as a reserve for
the use and benefit of the said Band of Indians;

AND WHEREAS by Indenture bearing date the 7th day of November A.D.
1899 and made between the Company of the First part and the Vendor of the Second
part, The Company granted and conveyed to the said Vendor the remainder of the
hereinafter described lands and premises as'in the last mentioned conveyance par-
ticularly described;

AND WHEREAS the said Band of Indians by resolution passed at a meeting
held by them at Chemong on 19th February 1900 requested the said Superintendent
General of Indian Affairs to purchase for their use and benefit from the said Vendor
the said last mentioned parcel of land and premises at and for the price or sum of
$2250. the same to be paid for out of the Capital Funds of the said Band and the
said Superintendent General of Indian Affairs hath contracted with the said Vendor
for the sale to and purchase by the Government of the same accordingly ;

AND WHEREAS the descriptions of the land in the said conveyances respectively
contained are not such as to permit of the registration of the said conveyances in the
Proper Registry Office and registerable descriptions of the same are not readily’
obtainable and the said Vendor and the Government have requested the Company
(as testified by the said Vendor becoming a party to and executing these presents) to
execute and deliver to the Government a new, direct and sufficient conveyance of the
whole of the lands and premises covered by or included in both of the said herein-

before recited conveyances ;

NOW THEREFORE THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH that for and in
consideration of the premises and of the said sum of $2250. of lawful money of Canada
to the said Vendor paid by the Government at or before the ensealing and delivering
of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, the Vendor doth grant
unto the Government in fee simple ALL and Singular those certain parcels or tracts
of land and premises situate, lying and being in the Township of Smith in the County
of Peterborough and Province of Ontario and being all such parts of the lands and
premises hereinafter mentioned as were heretofore conveyed by the Company to the
Vendor or intended so to be TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said
_ Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors forever in trust for the use or benefit of the
Mississaguas of Mud Lake Band of Indians, SUBJECT NEVERTHELESS to the

reservations, limitations, provisoes and conditions expressed in the original grant
thereof from the Crown.

The said Vendor covenants with the'said Government that he has the right to
. convey the said lands to the said Government notwithstanding any act of the said
Vendor, and that the said Government shall have quiet possession of the said lands
free from all encumbrances. :

And the said Vendor covenants with the said Government that he will execute
such further assurances of the said land as may be requisite.

And the said Vendor covenants with the said Government that he has done no

act to encumber the said lands.
And the said Vendor releases to the said, Government all his claims upon the

said land.

And the said Lucinda S. Kennedy wife of the said Vendor hereby bars her
dower in the said lands.

AND THIS INDENTURE FURTHER WITNESSETH that for and in con-
sideration of the premises and of the sum of One Dollar of lawful money of Canada
to the said Company paid by each of them the said Vendor and the said Government
at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents (the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged) the said Company hath grantéd, confirmed, released and surrendered
and by these presents doth grant, confirm, release and surrender unto Her Majesty,
Her successors and assigns all estate, right, title, interest, claim and demand what-
soever both at law and in equity or otherwise howsoever and whether in possession or
expectancy of them the said Company of, in, to or out of All and Singular those
certain parcels and tracts of land and premises situate, lying and being in the Town-
ship of Smith in the County of Peterborough and Province of Ontario comprising
sixteen hundred and sixty-four acres be the same more or less and being composed of
the Broken Lots Numbers sixteen, seventeen and eighteen and the North Part of
Broken Lot Nineteen in the Twelfth Concession. The Broken Lots Seventeen,
eighteen, nineteen, twenty and north parts of Broken Lots Numbers Twenty-one,
Twenty-two, Twenty-three and Twenty-four in the: Thirteenth Concession and Broken
Lots Numbers Eighteen, Nineteen and Twenty, Lot Twenty-one and Broken Lots
Twenty-two, Twenty-three and Twenty-four in the Fourteenth Concession of the said
Township of Smith.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty, Her Heirs and
Successors forever in trust as a Reserve for the use or benefit of the Mississaguas of
Mud Lake Band of Indians.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties hereto have hereunto set their hands and
seals the day and year first above written.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered. in the pre-
sence of as
to execution by Alex. E. Kennedy and

Lueinda S. Kennedy
G. M. Rocer.

A. E. KENNEDY [L.S.]
LUCINDA 8S. KENNEDY [L.S.]
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The Common Seal of the Company for
Propagation of the Gospel in New Eng-
land and the parts adjacent in America
was affixed to this Indenture in the i [L.S.]
presence of William Marshall Venning,

Doctor of Civil Law and Charter

Clerk of the Company.

Counry oF I, George Morrice Roger of the Town
PETERBOROUGH of Peterborough in the County of Peter-
To Wit: borough Barrister, make oath and say:

1. THAT I was personally present and did see the within Instrument and duplicate
thereof duly signed sealed and executed by Alexander Edward Kennedy and Lucinda
S. Kennedy two of the parties thereto. ‘

2. THAT the said Instrument -and duplicate were executed at the said Town

of Peterborough
3. THAT I know the said parties
4. THAT I am a subscribing witness to the said Instrument and duplicate

Sworn before me at the Town of Peter-
borough in the County of Peterborough
this 12th day of May in the year of
Our Lord 1900

J. M. Benner

G. M. ROGER

A Commissioner for taking Affidavits

I CERTIFY that the within Instrument is duly entered and registered in the
Registry Office for the County of Peterborough, in beok T-16 for the Township of
Smith at 10.5 o’clock, a.m. of the 27th day of June A.D., 1900

Number 5595
B. MORROW

Registrar,

No. 435.

Know aut Men sy tHese Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and
Principal men of The Indians of Moosomin and Thunderchild’s Reserves resident on
our Reserves in the District of Saskatchewan in the North West Territories and
Dominion of Canada, for and acting on behalf the whole people of our said Band in
Council assembled, Do hereby release, remise, surrender, quit claim and yield up unto
Our Sovereian Lavy 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 Moosomin & Thunderchild’s Reserves in the District of Saskatchewan and
North West Territories containing by admeasurement Seventy three acres & forty
three hundredths of an acre be the same more or less and being composed of a road
allowance one chain wide through Moosomin and Thunderchild’s Reserves in the
Battleford Indian Agency, Saskatchewan, containing as aforesaid 73.48 acres, as shown
on a Plan of Survey of record in the Department of Indian Affairs made in 1899,
under the instructions of the Government of the North West Territories. The sata
Road allowance is shown approximately on the sketch hereto annexed.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty THE QueEN, her
Heirs and Successors forever, in trust to be dedicated for road purposes.