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Ix Wrrness Wuereor, the parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands
and seals the day and year first above written.

Signed, sealed and delivered in the} TUMMAGO, (totem) [L.S.]
presence of us, \ METWETCHEWIN, (totem) [L.8.]
Tuomas Vitett, Capt. and Bt. Major SAGAWsoual, (totem) [L.§8.]
T6th Regt. Commanding. MAagQuamiss, (totem) [1.S.]
Cuarues Eviot, Lieut. T0th Regt. TECUMAGASAIE, (totem) [L.S.]
WituiMm Hanps, Senior, Clk. Indian PEMEKUMAWASSIGAL, (totem) [1L.8S.]
Dept. QUEKIJICK, (totem) [1L.S.]
Geo. F. Rapp, J. f. Dept. PAWBETANG, (totem) [1L.8.]
WAWIATTIN, (totem) [L.S.]
PEMUSEH, (totem) [1L.8.]
SAGETOH, (totem) [L.8.]
CANOTUNG, (totem) [L.S.]

No. 26.

P. MAITLAND.
PROVINCE OF UPPER CANADA.

Grorcr the Fourth, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and j

Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith.
To all whom these presents shall come,—GREETING :

Know Ye that We, of our special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, have
given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant unto the Honorable William
Claus, of the Town of Niagara, in the County of Lincoln, in the District of Niagara,
as colonel commanding the flank companies stationed from Niagara to Queens-
town, his heirs and assigns forever, all that parcel or tract of land situate in the Town-
ship of Innisfil, in the County of Simcoe, in the Home District, in our said Province,
containing by admeasurement nine hundred acres, be the same more or less, being the
north halves of Lots Nos. Sixteen, Eighteen, Nineteen and Twenty-one, and the south
halves of Lots Nos. Fourteen, Sixteen, Eighteen, Nineteen and Twenty-one in the
Fourth Concession of the said Township, together with all the woods and waters
thereon lying and being, under the reservations, limitations and conditions hereinafter
expressed, which said nine hundred acres are butted and bounded, or may be other-
wise known as follows, that is to say : Commencing where a post has been planted at
the north-east angle of each of the said north half lots respectively ; then south seventy-
three degrees thirty minutes west thirty chains, more or less, to where a post has been
planted at the north-west angle of each of the said half lots; then south nine degrees
thirty minutes east thirty-three chains thirty-three links and a-half, nore or less, to

the centre of the said concession; then north seventy-three degrees thirty minutes east —

thirty chains, more or less, to the eastern limit of each of the said half lots; then

north nine degrees thirty minutes west thirty-three chains thirty-three links and a-half ©

more or less to the place of beginning in each of the said half lots. Also, commencing
where a post has been planted at the south-west angle of each of the said south half

lots respectively; then north seventy-three degrees thirty minuces east thirty chains, ©

more or less, to where a post has been planted at the south-east angle of each of the
said half lots; then north nine degrees thirty minutes west thirty-three chains thirty-
three links and a-half, more or less, to the centre of the said concession ; then south
seventy-three degrees thirty minutes west thirty chains, more or less, to the
western limit of each of the said half lots; then south nine degrees thirty
minutes east thirty-three chains thirty-three links and a-half, more or less, to the
place of beginning in each of the said half lots. To have and to hold the
said parcel or tract of land hereby given and granted to him the said the

Honorable William Claus, his heirs and assigns for ever; saving, nevertheless, to
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us, our heirs and successors, all mines of gold and silver that shall or may be here-
after found on any part of the said parcel or tract of land hereby given or granted
as aforesaid, and saving and reserving to us, our heirs and successors, all white
that shall or may now or hereafter grow or be growing on any part of
the said parcel or tract of land hereby granted as aforesaid. Provided always, that
no part of the parcel or tract of Land hereby given and eranted to the said William
Claus and his heirs, be within any reservation heretofore made and marked for Us,
our Heirs and Successors, by our Surveyor General of Woods, or his lawful Deputy,
in which case, this our Grant for such part of the Land hereby given and granted to
the said William Claus and his heirs, forever, as aforesaid, and which shall, upon a
survey thereof being made, be found within any such reservation, shall be null and
void and of none effect, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

Provided also, that the said William Claus, his heirs or assigns, shall and do
within three years erect and build. or cause to be erected and built, in and upon
some part of the said parcel or tract of land, a good and sufficient dwelling house,
he, the said William Claus, or his assigns, not having built, or not being in his or
their own right lawfully possessed of a house in our said Provinee, and be therein,
or cause some person to be therein resident, for and during the space of one year
then next ensuing the building of the same. Provided also, that if at any time or
times hereafter the land so hereby given and granted to the said William Claus and
his heirs shall come into the possession and tenure of any person or persons whom-
soever, either by virtue of any deed of sale, conveyance, enfeoffment or exchange, or
by gift, inheritance, descent, devise or marriage, such person or persons shall within
twelve months next after his, her or their entry into and possession of the same,
take the oaths prescribed by law before some one of the magistrates of our said
Province, and a certificate of such oath having been so taken, shall cause to be
recorded in the Secretary’s office of the said Province. In default of all or any of
which conditions, limitations and restrictions, this said grant and everything herein
contained, shall be, and we hereby declare the same to be null and void, to all
intents and purposes whatsoever ; and the land hereby granted and every part
and parcel thereof, shall revert to and become vested in, Us, Our heirs and succes-
sors, in lke manner as +f the same had never been granted, anything herein con-
tained to the contrary thereof in any-wise notwithstanding.

And Whereas, by an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, passed in the
thirty-first year of the reign of the late King George the Third, entitled Any) Gt
to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty’s
Reign, entitled: ‘An Act for making more effectual provision for the Government

i of the Province of Quebec, in North America, and to make further provision for the
i Government of the said Province,” it is declared “that no erant of lands hereafter
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made, shall be valid or effectual unless the same shall ‘contain a specification of the
lands to be allotted and appropriated solely to the maintenance of a Protestant

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Fourth Concession of the said Township of Innisfil.

| Given under the Great Seal of Our Province of Upper Canada. Witness, Our

trusty and well-beloved Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.B., Lieutenant Governor of Our
said Province, and Major General commanding Our Forces therein at York, this
fourteenth day of October, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and

twenty-two, and third of Our reign.

By command of His Excellency in Council. Pt:
D. CAMERON,

Sec’y.
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General O. C. 19th January, 1820, respecting Militia Grants under the Adminis-
tration of Sir P. Maitland, K.C.B., Lieut.-Governor, for 1,200 acres of land, patent
gratuitous, settlement duty performed.

Entered with the Auditor, fifteenth day of November, 1822.

S. HEWARD,
Auditor General.

Recorded 16th November, 1822. )

Book B. G., folio 382.
D. CAMERON, |
Reg.

Now27.

ARTICLES OF PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT entered into on the thirty-first day of May,
in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, between John
Ferguson, of Kingston, in the County of Frontenac and Province of Upper Canada,
acting on the part and behalf of His Majesty of the one part, and Nawacamigo,
Anteniwayway, Kabiatsiwaybigebe, Wabukeek, Shiwitagan, Kotouche, Nawakeshecom,
Shawondais, Kiwaishe, Nibinowinin, Kakekijick, Papewoun, Wobekenense, Nagonse-
way, Ketchegam, Kamanyouweney, Shebeshe, Nakawagan, Wobasek, Principal Men
of the Mississagua Nation of Indians inhabiting the tract of land hereinafter men-
tioned and described, of the other part.

Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the yearly sum of six hundred and
forty-two pounds ten shillings, Province Currency, in goods at the Montreal price
to be well and truly paid yearly and every year by His Majesty, His heirs and suc-
eessors, to the said Mississagua Nation inhabiting and claiming the said trazt, which
may be otherwise known as follows, that 1s to say : Commencing at the north-west
angle of the Township of Rawdon; thence along the division line between the Midland
District and the District of New Castle, north sixteen degrees west thirty-three miles;
then north seventy-four degrees east sixty-one miles, more or less, to a division line
produced north sixteen degrees west from the north-east angle of the Township of
Bedford; then north sixteen degrees to the Ottawa or Grand River; then down the
said river to the north-west angle of the Township of Nepean ; then south sixteen
degrees east fifteen miles, more or less, to the north-east angle of the Township of
Marlborough; then south fifty-four degrees west to the north-west angle of the Town-
ship of Crosby; then south seventy-four degrees west sixty-one miles, more or less, to
the place of beginning; containing two millions seven hundred and forty-eight thou-
sand acres, more or less; and the said Nawacamigo, Anteniwayway, Kabiatsiway-
bigebe, Wabukeek, Shiwitagan, Kotouche, Nawakeshecom, Shawondais, Kiwaishe,
Nibinowinin, Kakekijick, Papewoun, Wobekenense, Nagonsaway, Ketchegam, Kaman-
youweney, Shebeshe, Nakawagan, Wobasek, as well for themselves as for the Missis-
sagua Nation, inhabiting and claiming the said tract of land as above described,
do freely and voluntarily surrender and convey the same to His Majesty, His heirs
and successors, without reservation or limitation in perpetuity. And the said John
Ferguson, in behalf of His Majesty, His heirs and successors, does hereby promise
amd agree to pay to the said Nation of Indians, inhabiting the said tract as above
mentioned, yearly and every year for ever the said sum of six hundred and forty-
two pounds ten shillings, Province currency, in goods at the Montreal price, which
cum the sail Chiefs and Principal people, parties hereunto, acknowledge as a full
consideration for the lands hereby sold and conveyed to His Majesty, His heirs and

successors.