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, 133 titles and privileges whatsoever to the lands therein defined and described on certain terms and considerations therein mentioned: AND WHEREAS by the said Treaty, out of the lands so surrendered, reserves were to be selected and laid aside for the benefit of the said Indians; and the said Indians were amongst other things hereinafter provided to have the right to pursue their avocations of hunting and fishing throughout the tract surrendered, subject to such regulations as might, from time to time, be made by the Government of the Dominion of Canada, and saving and excepting such tracts as might, from time to time, be required or taken up for settlement, mining, lumbering or. other purposes by the said Government of the Dominion of Canada or by any of the subjects thereof duly authorized therefor by the said Government: AND WHEREAS the true boundaries of Ontario have since been ascertained and declared to include part of the territory surrendered by the said treaty and other territory North of the height of land with respect to which Indians are understood to make a claim as being occupants thereof according to their mode of occupying and as not having yet surrendered their claim thereto or interest therein. AND WHEREAS before the true boundaries had been declared as aforesaid, the Government of Canada had selected and set aside certain Reserves for the Indians in imtended pursuance of the said treaty, and the said Government of Ontario was no party to the selection, and has not yet coneurred therein; AND WHEREAS it is deemed desirable for the Dominion of Canada and the Province of Ontario to come to a friendly and just understanding in respect of the said matters and the Governor General of Canada in Council and the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario in Council have given authority for the execution on their behalf respectively pursuant to the said Statutes of an agreement in terms of these Presents. NOW THEREFORE it is hereby agreed between the two Governments as fol- lows :— 1. With respect to the Tracts to be from time to time taken up tor settlement, mining, lumbering or other Purposes and to the regulations required in that behalf, as in the said Treaty mentioned, it is hereby conceded and declared that, as the Crown Lands in the Surrendered tract have been decided to belong to the Province of Ontario or to Her Majesty in right of the said Province, the Rights of hunting and fishing by the Indians throughout the tract surrendered, not including the Reserves to be made thereunder, do not continue with reference to any tracts which have been, or from time to time may be, required or taken up for settlement, mining, lumbering or other purposes by the Government of Ontario or persons duly Authorized by the said Government of Ontario; and that the concurrence of the Province of Ontario is required in the selection of the said Reserves. 2. That to avoid dissatisfaction or discontent among the Indians, full enquiry will be made by the Government of Ontario, as to the Reserves before the passing of the said Statutes laid out in the Territory, with a view of acquiescing in the location and extent thereof unless some good reason presents itself for a different course. 3. That in case the Government of Ontario after such enquiry is dissatisfied with the reserves or any of them already selected, or in case other Reserves in the said territory are to be selected, a joint commission or joint commissions, shall be appointed by the Governments of Canada and Ontario to settle and determine any question or all questions relating to such reserves or proposed Reserves. 4. That in case of ail Indian Reserves so to be confirmed or hereafter selected, the waters within the lands laid out or to be laid out as Indian Reserves in the said Territory, meluding the land covered with water lying between the projecting headlands of any lake or sheets of water, not wholly surrounded by an Indian Reserve or Reserves, 288—11 134 = ——— SS = = ——) shall be deemed to form part of such Reserve including Islands wholly within such headlands, and shall not be subject to the public common right of fishery by others than Indians of the Band to which the Reserve belongs. 5. That this agreement is made without prejudice to the jurisdiction of the Parliament of Canada, with respect to inland fisheries under the British North- America Act, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty Seven in case, the same shall be decided to apply to the said fisheries herein mentioned. 6. That any future treaties with the Indians in respect of Territory in Ontario to which they have not before the passing of the said Statutes surrendered their claim aforesaid, shall be deemed to require the concurrence of the Government of Ontario. IN WITNESS WHEREOF these Presents have been signed and sealed on behalf of the Government of Canada by the Honourable Thomas Mayne Daly Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, and on behalf of the Government of Ontario, by the Honourable John Morison Gibson, Secretary and Registrar of the Province of Ontario. SIGNED, SEALED and Delivered by the Honourable Thomas Mayne Daly in presence of A. Chisholm Clerk Civil Service and by the Honourable John Morison Gibson, in presence of J. TI. MeIntosh, Clerk Civil Service, Ont- ario Recorded 29th May, 1894. Lib: 149. Fol: 68. L. A. CaTEeLLier T. Mayne Daty [L.S.]} J. M. Gipson [L.S.] Dep: Registrar General of Canada. Recorded this 26th day of May 1894, in Liber 7 GS Folio 133, Joun F. C. UssHer Deputy Registrar. No. 354. Know atu Men sy tiupse Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and Principal men of The Abenakis of Becancour Band of Indians resident on our Reserve in the County of Nicolet in the Province of Quebec 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 Indian Reserve in the County of Nicolet and Province of Quebee containing by admeasure- ment be the same more or less and being composed of a parcel of land forming part of the Becancour Indian Reserve, known in the Cadastral Registry of the County of Nicolet for the Parish of Becancour, under Number 582, and described as follows :— A parcel of land belonging to Louis Bernard containing 20 feet in width by the depth of the land between the Public Road and the River Becancour, having for neighbours on the South East, Noel St. Aubin and Louis Bernard, on the North West. The said parcel of land to be leased for a right of way.