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Pius INDENTUKE, made this fourth day of July, in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, between Powlis Claus, Brant Brant, Chiefs of
the Mohawk Nation, on the Bay of Quinté, and Abraham Brant, Alexander Loft,
Seth W. Hill, Thomas Claus and James Maracle, Councillors for the said Nation, on
the Bay of Quinté, and this day assembled in Council, of the first part, and Our
Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, of the second part.

Witnesseth: that the party of the first part for divers good causes and considera-
tions them thereto moving, have, and each of them as well in respect of themselves
as of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinté, whom they represent, surrendered, relin-
quished and yielded up, and hereby do surrender, relinquish and yield up upon trust
for sale thereof unto Her said Majesty, Her heirs and. successors, all that certain
parcel of land, being part of lot number four, in the second concession of Tyendinaga,
‘nthe County of Hastings, containing by admeasurement eighteen acres be the
same more or less, and butted and bounded as follows :—

Commencing at the south-easterly shore of the Salmon River, in the lmit
between lots numbers four and five in said concession; then south sixteen degrees
east twelve chains thirty links, more or less, to where a post has been planted; then
south eighty-two degrees thirty minutes west twenty chains thirty-eight links, more
or less, to the limit between lots numbers three and four in said concession ; then
north sixteen degrees west six chains fifty links, more or less, to the Salmon. River;
then north-easterly, following the shore of said river up stream, twenty-one chains,
more or less, to the place| of beginning. Also lots numbers thirty-two, thirty-three,
thirty-four and thirty-five in the ninth concession of the said Township of Tyen-
dinaga, containing in all eight hundred acres of land with the appurtenances. To
hold the same to our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her heirs and successors for
ever.
Ix WirNess WHEREOF, we, the said Chiefs and Councillors, have hereto set our ~

hands and seals the day and year aforesaid.

Siened, sealed and delivered im Pow is CLAUS, [L.S.]
presence of his |
Li WALLBRIDGB. Brant x BRANT, TL... |

mark.

ABRAHAM BRANT, 4

ALExR. LOFT, (L.S-}

Setu W. HILt, [L.8.]

‘PHOS. CLAUS, (5.4

JAMES MARACLE. [L.8.]

Certified to have been executed in my presence.

T. G. ANDERSON,
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Cory of a Report of a Committee of the Honorable the Executive Council, dated the 14th

July, 1856, approved by His Excellency the Governor General in Council on the |

15th July 1826. ..
On a surrender by the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinté of certain lands in =
Tyendinaga, and near Shannonville. . -
The Superintendent General of Indian Affairs reports that this surrender consists
of about 800 acres in Tyendinaga and of 18 acres adjoining the town plot of
Bhannonville. No conditions are attached to the cession, beyond the usual one of
investing the capital derived ‘trom the sale of the land and paying the interest to
and that there does not seem to be any objection to accepting

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The Committee recommend that the surrender be accepted, and be enrolled in
ihe usual manner in the offices of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and of the
Provincial Registrar, respectively.

Certified.
WM. H. LEE,
C7 H.C.

To the Honourable
The Provincial Registrar,

&e., &e., &e.

| PRovINCIAL REGISTRARS OFFICE,
Toronto, 5th March, 1856.

I hereby certify that tne foregoing surrender, together with the Minute in
Council hereto annexed, have been respectively entered upon the records of this
office, in Lib. C.S., Folio, 156.

THOS. AMIOT,
Deputy Registrar.

Crown LAND DEPARTMENT,
Toronto, 20th February, 1857.

Entered upon the records of this Department in i. W. No, 39.

No. 82.

To all to whom these presents shall come:

We, the undersigned Chiefs and Warriors, on behalf of the people of the Newash
Band of Chippewa Indians residing at Owen Sound, send greeting.

Whereas we and our people having the fullest confidence in the paternal care
and good intentions of our kind Father the Governor General towards all his Indian
children, and foreseeing the great benefits that we and our posterity are likely to
derive from the surrender of a large portion of our reserve, in the year of Our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, we have, after mature consideration, in
several full councils held at our village of Newash, arrived at the conclusion that it
will be to our advantage to place at the disposal of Our Fatner the Governor General
the land upon which we now reside, commonly known as the Newash or Owen
Sound Reserve, in order that he may cause the same to be sold for our benefit. Be
it therefore known that we, Peter Jones Kegedonce and George A. Tabegwun, Sachem
Chiefs, John Thomas Wabatick, John Snake, Abner Elliot, John Jonnson and Charles
Keeshick, Interpreter, Councillors and Principal Men of the Newash Band, for and
on behalf of our said tribe, do hereby surrender, make over and convey to Her
Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs and successors, all and singular
that certain tract or parcel of land and premises situate, lying and being on the
westerly side of the Owen Sound in the Georgian Bay, known as the Newash Reserve,
and containing about ten thousand acres of land, be the same, more or less, which
tract of land is butted and bounded and otherwise known and described as follows,
viz.: On the north-east by the water of Owen Seund, on the north-west by the head
line road between the seventeenth and eighteenth concessions of the Township of
Keppel and the southerly boundary of the lands lately occupied by the Caughnawaga

Tndians, on the south-west by a straight line as represented by Mr. Rankin’s plan of
survey, being the boundary between said reserve and the said Township of Keppel,
and on the south-east by the head line between concession A of Keppel and the strip
of lands surrendered in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

To have and to hold the said land and premises, with all and singular its
hereditaments and appurtenances, to Her said Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs and
successors forever, to the intent and purpose that Her said Majesty, her heirs and

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