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ALExIS MATTHIAS SPLITLOG, [L.S.]

Certified.
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PROVINCE OF CANADA,
County oF ESSEX,
To wit:

Thomas King, of Anderdon, in the County and Province aforesaid, schoolmaster,
maketh oath and saith that the preceding deed of surrender was duly executed in
his presence and that he is a subscribing witness thereto.

THOMAS KING.
Sworn before me at Anderdon,|
the nineteenth day of July,
1853.
WituiaMm GETFIELD, J.P.

Extract from a Report of a Committee of the Honourable ihe Executive Council on
land applications, dated 9th Augusi, 1853, approved by His Excellency the
Governor General in Council on the same day.

On the letter of the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, transmitting a
deed of surrender, dated 19th July, 1853, from the Wyandott Indians of Anderdon
to Her Majesty the Queen, of a certain triangular tract of land in or adjoining to
the Town of Sandwich, and requesting that said deed may be laid before the
Governor General in Council, for the purpose of the trust being accepted and entered
upon the records in the offices of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and of the
Provincial Registrar.

The Committee recommend that the above mentioned deed of surrender be
accepted, and that the same be entered of record in the Crown Lands and Provincial
Registrar’s offices.

Certified.
WM. H. LEH,
Aclg. C.E,C.
To the Honourable
The Provincial Registrar,

&e., &e., &e.

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ProvinclAL REGISTRAR’S OFFICE,
QvrBEc, 19tn August, 1853.

I do hereby certify that the accompanying deed of surrender and extract of
Council have bén duly entered on the records of this Department.

P THO. AMIOT,
Deputy Prov’l Registrar.

Know ALL MEN BY THESE Presents, that we Joshua Waywanosh, Andrew
Nageeshigk, Jackson Wopagass, William Pamossang, Gordon Corning, Joseph Ash-
ewagwonabie and Thomas Nayonnquott, Chiefs and Principal Men of the Tribe of
Chippewa indians occupying and claiming to'be the sole possessors of a certain tract
o: parcel of land in the Township of Sarnia, in the County of Lambton and Province
of Canada, and known and described as the Upper Reserve on the River St. Clair, in

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consideration of the sum of two thousand four hundred pounds currency, do hereby
surrender and yield up unto Her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, Queen of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, all our claim, right, title, interest,
rroperty and demand whatsoever, both at law and in equity, of, in and to the several
pieces or parcels of land described on the map hereunto annexed, containing twenty- >
four and a half acres of land, including the ten water lots fronting the River St. Clair —
(reference being also had to the award of the arbitrators hereunto annexed), the same
being a portion of the said Chippewa Reserve, and required for railroad purposes,
unto Her said Majesty, Her heirs and successors for ever, to the end and purpose that
Her Majesty may be graciously pleased to order and direct that the said land and
water lots be sold to the Great Western Railway Company of Canada, their heirs
and assigns forever.

Ix Testimony WHEREOF, we, the said Chiefs and Principal Men have hereunto set
our hands and seals in Council assembled at Port Sarnia, the tenth day of May, in the
year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. |

Signed, sealed and delivered in our JosHua WawanosH, (totem) [L.8.]
presence, being first read and ex- ANDREW NAGEESHEIGK, (totem) Lee
plained: JACKSON WUuUPAGASS, (totem) [L.8.]

J. B. Curenou, V.S.I.A. WILLIAM PoMUSSANG, (totem) [L.8.]
H. P. Cuassz, J.1.D. GorDON CORNING, (totem) [L.8.]
Davip B. WAWANOSH. GrorGE ASHGWONABIE, (totem) TL.S.]

THomMAs NAYONNQUODT, (totem) [L.8.j

Cory of a Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Executive Council, dated 4th
July, 1856, approved by His Excellency the Governor General in Council on the

20th June, 1856, transmitting the deed of surrender from the Chiefs and Principal
Men of the Indian Tribe residing at Port Sarnia, in the County of Lambton, to Her
Majesty the Queen, in trust, of a certain space of land through their reserve com-
prising about twenty-five acres, as is shown by an enclosed map; in order that the
same may be sold and patented to tae Great Western Railroad Company for a right
of way, station accommodations, &c., and requesting that the same be laid before
Your Excellency for the purpose of the trust being accepted and entered upon the
records in the offices of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and of the Provincial
Registrar.

The Committee recommend that the trust be accepted and entered upon the
records in the offices of the Commissioner of Crawn Lands and of the Provincial
Registrar, as requested by the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.

Certified.
WM. H: LEE,
| . C.H.C.

To the Honourable
The Provincia] Registrar,
&c., &e., &e.

PROVINCIAL REGISTRAR’S OFFICE,
Toronto, 5tn August, 1856.

I hereby certify that the foregoing surrender, as well as the minute in Council
relating thereto, have respectively been entered upon the records of this office in

Lib. C.S., Folio 158.
THOS. AMIOT,

Deputy Registrar.
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Crown Lanp DEPARTMENT,
Toronto, 20th February, 1857.

Entered upon the records of this Department on Hes INO. O0:

No. 72.
SURRENDER OF THE SAUGEEN PENINSULA.

We, the Chiefs, Sachems and Principal Men of the Indian Tribes resident at
Saugeen, Owen Sound, confiding in the wisdom and protecting care of our Great
Mother across the Big Lake, and believing that our Good Father, His Excellency
the Earl of Elgin and Kineardine, Governor-General of Canada, is anxiously desirous
to promote those interests which will most largely conduce to the welfare of His
red children, have now, being in full Council assembled, in presence of the Superin-
tendent General of Indian Affairs, and of the young men of both tribes, agreed that
it will be highly desirable for us to make a full and complete surrender unto the
Crown of thai Peninsula known as the Saugeen and Owen Sound Indian Reserve,
subject to certain restrictions and reservations to be hereinafter set forth. We have
therefore set our marks to this document, after having heard the same read to us,
and do hereby surrender tne whole of the above nameca tract oi country, bounded on
the south by a straight line drawn from the Indian village of Saugeen to the Indian ~
village of Nawash, in continuation of the northern limits of the narrow strip recent y
surrendered by us to the Crown; and bounded on the north-east ana wes
gian Bay and Lake Huron, with the following reservations, to wit: Ist. For the
benefit of tne Saugeen Indians we reserve all that block of land bounded on the west
by a straight line running due north from the River Saugeen, at the spot where it is
entered by a ravine, immediately to the west of the village, and over which a bridge
has recently been constructed, to the shore of Lake Huron; on the south by the
aforesaid northern limit of the lately surrendered strip; on the east by a line drawn
from a spot upon the coast ata distance of about (94) nine miles and a half from
the western boundary aforesaid, and running paraliel thereto until it touches the

aforementioned northern limits of the recently surrendered strip; and we wish it to

| be clearly understood that we wish the Peninsula at the mouth of the Saugeen River

to tne west of the western boundary aforesaid to be laid out in town park lots and
sold for our benefit without delay ; and we also wish it to be understood that our sur-
render includes that parcel of land which ig in continuation of the strip recently sur-
rendered to the Saugeen River. |

We do also reserve to ourselves that tract of land called Chief’s Point, bounded
on the east by a line drawn from a spot half a mile up the Sable River, and continued
in a northerly direction to tne bay, and upon all other sides by the lake.

ond. We reserve for the benefit of the Owen Sound Indians all that traci
bounded on the south by. the northern limits of the continuation of the strip recently
currendered; on the north-west by a line drawn from the north easterly angle of the
aforesaid strip (as it was surrendered in 1851, in a north-easterly direction) ; on the
south-east by the sound extending to the southern limit of the Caughnawaga Settle-
ment; on the north by a line two miles in length and forming the said southern limit.
And we also reserve to ourselves all that tract of land called Cape Crocker, bounded
on three sides by Georgian Bay, on the south-west side by a line drawn from the
bottom of Nochemowenaing Bay to the mouth of Sucker River, and we include in the
aforesaid surrender the parcel of land contained in the continuation to Owen’s Sound
of the recently surrendered strip aforesaid.

8rd. We do reserve for tne benefit of the Colpoy’s Bay Indians, in the presence
and with the concurrence of John Beattie, who represents the tribe at this Council, a

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block of land containing 6,000 acres, and including their village, and bounded on the
north by Colpoy’s Bay.
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