Cory of a Report of a Committee of the Honorable the Privy Council approved by His .

Excellency the Governor General in Council on the 2nd day of October, 1873.
On a memorandum dated 30th September, 1873, from the Honorable the Minis-

f

ter of the Interior, submitting for acceptance a surrender from the Chiefs and Prin- —

cipal Men and others of the Chippewa Indians of Sarnia, bearing date Ist May, 1872,
conveying to the Crown in trust the Indian mission lot, and “including the beach
and water privileges in front of the same.”

The Committee advise that the surrender be accepted by Your Excellency in
Council, in conformity with the provisions of the 8th section of the Act 31st Vic-
toria, chap. 42, with a view to the intention of the said surrender being carried into
effect.

Certified.
W. A. HIMSW ORTH Gc:
To the Honorable
The Minister of the Interior, &c., &., &e.
Recorded 5th November, 1873.
Lib. 6, Folio 475.
J. ©. ATKINS;
Secretary of State and Registrar-General of Canada.

No. 129.
Seal Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great
of Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &., &e., &e.
Province
of W. P. HOwu.Lanp,
Ontario. Province of Ontario.

To all to whom these presents shall come,—GREETING.

Whereas the Honorable Alexander Campbell, of the City of Ottawa, in the
County of Carleton, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, hath contracted and
agreed for the absolute purchase of the lands and tenements hereinafter mentioned
and described, at and for the price or sum of one hundred and fifty-six dollars of
lawful money of Canada, and of which lands We are seized in right of Our Crown.

Now know ye, that in consideration of the said sum of one hundred and fifty-six
dollars well and truly paid to Our use, at or before the sealing of these Our Letters
Patent, We have granted, sold, aliened, conveyed and assured, and by these presents
do grant, sell, alien, convey and assure unto the said the Honorable Alexander
Campbell, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, and his successors in office
for ever, all those parcels or tracts of land situated, lying and being. in the Town-
ship of South Algona, in the County of Renfrew, in the Province of Ontario, con-
taining by admeasurement one thousand five hundred and sixty-one acres, be the
same more or less, which said parcels or tracts of land may be otherwise known as
follows, that is to say: being composed of lots numbers three, four, five, Six, seven,
eight, nine and ten, in the ninth concession; and lots numbers five, six, seven, eight,
nine and ten, in the tenth concession of the aforesaid Township of South Algona,

reserving the allowance for road along the banks of the Bonnechére River and —

Golden Lake and free access to the shores thereof for all vessels, boats and persons.
To have and to hold the said parcels or tracts of land hereby granted, conveyed and
assured unto the said the Honorable Alexander Campbell, Superintendent General
of Indian Affairs, and his successors in office in that capacity for ever in trust for
the use, settlement ‘and benefit of the band of Algonquin Indians resident at or near
Golden Lake in the said Township of South Algona and County of /Renftew, saving,
excepting and reserving, nevertheless, unto Us, Our heirs and successors, the free
uses, passage and enjoyment of, in, over and upon all navigable waters that shall or
may be hereafter found on or under, or be flowing through or upon, any part of the
said parcels or tracts of land hereby granted as aforesaid.

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Given under the great seal of Our Province of Ontario. Witness, the Honoraole
‘William Pearce Howland, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath and
Lieutenant Governor of Our Province of Ontario, at Toronto, this seventeenth day
of September, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three,
eud in the thirty-serenth year of Our Reign.

By command of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

T. B. PARDEE,
Secretary.
THOS Ee JOHNSON,
Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands.
Recorded 22nd September, 1873.
Liber 46, Folio 204.
JoHN F. C, USsHER,
Deputy Provincial Registrar.

No. 1380.

We, the undersigned Chiefs and Principal Men of the band of Indians owning
the tract of land known as the Garden River Reserve, and described in the treaty
effected on the ninth day of September, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty with the Chiefs and Principal Men of the Ojibewa Tribe of Indians
inhabiting and claiming the eastern and northern shores of Lake Huron, by the Hon-
curable William Benjamin Robinson, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of Great
Britain and Ireland, as being situated at Garden River, in the District of Algoma, in
{]:e Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, and known as the Indian Reserve at
(;arden River, and laid down on a plan by John Stoughton Dennis, Provincial Land
Surveyor, dated and on file in the head office of Indian Affairs at Ottawa,
ir. full council of our said band assembled at Garden River on this twentieth day of
May in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy three, do hereby
agree and consent to surrender, and by this instrument do surrender to Her Gracious
Majesty aforesaid, Her heirs and successors, in trust, for the use and benefit of the
Church of England Mission, established at the Garden River Reserve aforesaid and
their successors for ever, for the purpose of the said mission, all that parcel or tract
of land situate upon the Garden River Reserve aforesaid, and deseribed as follows, that
is to say: being lots numbered fifteen, south of Milton street, north of Milton street,
south of Prince street and north of Prince street, in the town plot of Shinguacouse, on
the reserve aforesaid, containing by admeasurement two acres and one quarter or
thereavout, be the same more or less, and we make this surrender in acknowledge-
“rent and in consideration of the benefits conferred upon the Indians resident upon

‘the reserve aforesaid by the said mission.
Ix Witness WHEREOF, we,*the undersigned Chiefs and Principal Men of the

bend aforesaid, and as representing the entire said band, have hereunto set our hands
snd seals on the day and in the year first above written, in the presence of William
Plummer, Superintendent and Commissioner of Indian Affairs, on behalf of Her

Majesty the Queen aforesaid.
Signed, sealed and delivered at

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Fredk. Frost, School-teacher, Culnr PEQUETCHENENE, x [L.S.]
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