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No. 298.

Know aut MEN By THESE Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and Prin-
cipal men of The Chippewas of Rama resident on our Reserve in the Township of
Rama, in the Province of Ontario 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 Township of Rama, in the County of
Ontario and Province of Ontario, containing by admeasurement Forty-five acres be
the same more or less and being composed of the East parts of lots numbers Twenty
six and Twenty seven in the Front Range of the Township of Rama aforesaid being
the land situate between the Railway and Lake St. John. ALSO a right of way Two
rods wide, along the North side of said lot number Twenty Seven—COMMENCING
at the Northern and North Western Railroad and running in a Westerly direction
along the Northern boundary of said lot to the Rama Road.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty the Queen, her
Heirs and Successors forever, in trust to sell the same to such person or persons, and
upon such terms as the Government of the Dominion of Canada may deem most
conducive to our welfare and that of our people.

AND upon the further condition that all moneys received from the sale thereof,
shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management, be placed to
Our credit and the interest thereon paid to us and Our descendants.

AND WE, the said Chief and Principal men of the said The Chippewas of Rama
do, on behalf of our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confirm, and promise
to ratify and confirm, whatever the said Government may do, or cause to be lawfully
done, in connection with the disposal of the said parcels of land.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals

this Seventh day of September in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and Ninety One.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered, in the pre-) J. B. NanicisHKuNG [L.8.]
sence of GILBERT WILLIAMS [L.S.]
D. J. McPues, SAMPSON INGERSOLL [L.S.]
Indian Agent. JAMES B. NANIGISHKUNG [L.S.]

JOHN KENICE [L.S.]

W. M. Beatty [L.s.]

JAMES INGERSOL [L.8.]

JOHN WILLIAMS [L.8.]

MiIcHAEL St. GERMAIN [L.S.]

JOSEPH KENICE [L.S8.]

J. B. STINSON
SAMSON GEORGE
JOHN BIGWIND
ALDER SHILLING

Ep. YELLOWHEAD
JOSEPH YELLOWHEAD
JOHN WESLEY
JOSEPH SWYER
FRANK JOE.

DOMINION OF CANADA, Personally appeared before me, Duncan
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO Joshua McPhee, of the Village of Ather-
CouNTY OF ONTARIO ley in the Province of Ontario, and Jo-

To Wit: seph B. Nanigishkung Chief of the said

Band of. Indians.
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AND the said Duncan Joshua McPhee for himself saith:—

That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by a majority of the male
members of the said Band of Indians of the Chippewas of Rama of the full age of
twenty-one years then present.

That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band summoned
for that purpose and according to their rules.

That he was present at such meeting or council and heard such assent given.

That he was duly authorized to attend such council or meeting by the Super-
intendent General of Indian Affairs.

That no Indian was present or voted at said council or meeting who was not u
member of the Band or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Sur-
render.

And the said Joseph B. Nanigishkung says:

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 Dunean Joshua Mer vee.

That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not an
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 said Deponents
Dunean Joshua McPhee and Joseph B.
Nanigishkung at the Township of
Mara in the County of Ontario this | Duncan JosHuA MCPHEE
12th day of September A.D. 1891. J. B. NANIGISHKUNG.
Gro. H. DartNneEtt,
Judge of the County Court
County of Ontario.
Recorded 10th October 1891.
Liber 135, Folio 322.
L. A. CaTELLIER
Dep: Registrar General of Canada.

No. 299.

CANADA.
Deputy Governor.
Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Queen, Defender of the Faith, &e., &., &e.
To all to whom these Presents shall come—GREETINGS:
Great WHEREAS the Lands, hereinafter described, are part of the
[ Seal. ] lands known as “ Dominion Lands ” and mentioned in an Act of the
Parliament of Canada, passed in the thirty-fifth year of Our Reign
and intituled: “An Act respecting the Ptblic Lands of the
Dominion ”;
Anp WHEREAS
THE BISHOP OF RUPERTS LAND, a body corporate, in-
corporated by Act of the Legislature of Manitoba, 34th Victoria,
Chapter 38, has applied for a grant of the said lands and his claim
to such grant having been duly investigated by Us he has been found
duly entitled thereto.

For the Deputy of the
Minister of Justice,
Canada.

A. POWER