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DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF CANADA,

REGISTRAR’S BRANCH, OTtTawa, January 21st, 1881.

I hereby certify the within to be a true and faithful copy of the record of the
original surrender, as entered in Lib. 60, Folio 480.

L. A. CATELLIER,
Dep. Registrar-General of Canada.

Recorded 29th July, 1880.

L. A. CATELLIER,
Dep. Registrar-General of Canada.

iINow 179:

Know att Men py THese Presents that we, the undersigned Chief and Warriors
of the Wyandott Indians, of the Township of Anderdon, in the County of Essex
and Province of Ontario, being a majority of the male members of the said Wyandott
Indians of the full age of twenty-one years, in council summoned and assembled, for
that purpose, among other things, according to their rules, and held in the presence
of Ebenezer Watson, Esq., Commissioner and Visiting Superintendent of Indian
Affairs, duly authorized to attend such council, for and in consideration of the trusts
and for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and of the sum of one dollar of lawful
money (the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged), in our names and in the name

of the whole, and on the behalf of our said Nation or Band, have granted, given, -
assigned, released and surrendered, and by these presents do grant, give, assign,

release and surrender unto Her Majesty, Her successors and assigns, all and singu-
lar that certain parcel or tract of land, or land covered with water, situate, lying and

_ being in the Township of Anderdon, in the County of Essex and Province of Ontario,

being composed of the water front or lot immediately in front of lot number eighteen,
in the first concession of the said Township of Anderdon, which. may be described as
follows, that is to say : Commencing at the edge of the Detroit River, on the boun-
dary line between said lot number eighteen and lot number seventeen ; thence west-
erly, following the said boundary line, produced twelve chains, more or less, to the
channel bank of the said River Detroit; thence northerly, following the said channel
bank, ten chains, more or less, to the boundary line produced between the said lot
number eighteen and lot number nineteen ; thence easterly along the last mentioned
limit, fifteen chains, more or less, to the water’s edge of the said river ;_ thence south-
erly along the said water’s edge of the said river, ten chains, more or less, to the place
of beginning—containing by admeasurement thirteen acres, more or less.

And also, all and singular that certain other parcel or tract of land, and land
covered with water, situate, lying and being in the Township of Sandwich West, in the
said County of Essex and Province of Ontario, being composed of an “ Island,” des-
eribed and known as “ Grass Island,” situate in the Detroit River, opposite to “ Fight-
ing Island,” also situate in the said river, said to contain by admeasurement fifteen
acres more or less.

To have and to hold the same, together with their appurtenances, unto Her
Majesty, Her successor and assigns forever, in trust, to sell and convey the same to
the purchaser or purchasers thereof, and to apply the proceeds thereof for the use

and benefit of the said Wyandott Indians.
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SS - _—

Ix Wrrness WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this twenty-

seventh day of April, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred sand
eighty, at our council house in the said Township of Anderdon.

Signed, sealed and delivered his : |

nig ener JOSEPH x WHITE, Chief. [L.S.]

EBENEZER WATSON, focuEe Weiner Bi Pacey

Indian Supt. Tuos. B. Wurre, [L.S.]

S. WHITE. ALEXANDER CLARK, _ [L.S.]

JAMES CLARK, [L.8.]

ALEXANDER WHITE, ft

JOSEPH CLARK, Ss

IsRAEL J. SPLITLOG, Lis.

Lewis Warrow, | [Bes |

GEO. G, CLARK, [L.8.]

THoMAS WARROW, [L.S.]

ABRAM CLARK, © : [L.8.]

S. WHITE, DAS: ]

JOSEPH WHITE. LL. |
ONTARIO, ]
County or Essex. }
To Wit: J

I, Solomon White, of the Town of Windsor, in the Co. of Essex, Esquire, make ~
Oath and say :

1. That I am a member of the Wyandott Indians of the Township of Anderdon
and one of the Principal Men present at the council or meeting of the said Wyandott

Indians whereat the foregoing release or surrender was assented to, and as such
entitled to vote thereat.

2. That the foregoing release or surrender was assented to by a majority of the ©
male members of the Wyandott Indians of Anderdon, of the full age of twenty-one
years, at a meeting or council thereof, summoned for that purpose (among others)
according to their rules, and held in the presence of Ebenezer Watson, Esquire,
Visiting Superintendent of Indian Affairs, at their council house, in the Township
of Anderdon, as attested by the signatures thereto of the Chief and thirteen others
of such male members, as will appear on reference thereto.
Sworn before me at the Town of Sand-)

wich, in the County of Essex, this S. WHITE.
29th day of April, 1880. i

G. W. Lececatrt,
Judge of the County Court, County of Hssex.

ONTARIO, |
CouNTY OF ESSEX. \
To Wit: J

I, Ebenezer Watson, of the Town of Sarnia, in the County of Lambton, Esquire,
make oath and say :

1. That I am Visiting Superintendent of Indian Affairs, authorized by the Super- |
intendent-General of Indian Affairs of the Dominion of Canada to attend the meet-
ings or councils of the Wyandott Indians of Anderdon, summoned according to their
rules for the purposes, among others, of making the annexed release or surrender.

2. That the annexed release or surrender was assented to by a majority of the
male members of the Wyandott Indians of Anderdon of the full age of twenty-one
years, at a meeting or council thereof, summoned for that purpose (among others),
according to their rules, and held in my presence at their council house in the Town-

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ship of Anderdon and attested by the signatures of the Chief and thirteen of such
male members as aforesaid, as appears on reference to the said release or surrender.

Sworn before me at the Town of Sand-]
wich, in the County of Essex, this} EBENEZER WATSON.
29th day of April, 1880. J
G. W. Leaaartr,
Judge of the County Court, County of Essex.
Recorded 3rd August, 1880.
EE. Al OAPELVIER,
Deputy Registrar-General of Canada.

DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF CANADA,
REGISTRAR’S BRANCH, Orrawa, 4th February, 1881.

I hereby certify the within to be a true and faithful copy of the record of the
original surrender, as entered in Lib. 60, Fol. 435.

L. A. CATELLIER,
Dep. Registrar-General of Canada.

No. 180.

WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, proprietors or interested in certain lands situated as
much in the Seigniory as in the Indian Reserve of the Abenakis of St. Francis, which
have been acquired from the Indians, or some of them by whites, and have been and
are to-day owned by whites, we renew by these presents the offer made by some of
us, on or about the third day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to Mr.
J. V. DeBoucherville, at that time sent by the Crown on the subject of the affairs of
the said Indians, the said offer was to pay to the Crown for the benefit of the said
Abenakis to be employed to their advantage, an established rent to the amount of
thirty cents per annum for each acre of the said lands, redeemable by paying the
principal, which is represented by said rent at 6 per cent, keeping account, however,
of the established rents already imposed on parts of said lands by the Cadastre of the
Seigniory of the said Indians made by Mr. H. Judah, Commissioner, of Seigniories,
the amount of the said already imposed rents to be deducted from the said proposed
rent of 30 cents per acre, so that those lands would only be charged like the others
viz., 30 cents per acre, in all, the said new rent to be payable yearly on the 15th
January at the same time with those already imposed and mentioned above, and to
begin from the 15th January, 1879, and the arrears of said rents seigniorial consti-
tuted heretofore paid or at present payable on account of the lands entered in the
Cadastre to be deduced on the said proposed rent of 30 cents, so as to put these
lands on the same footing with those which were entered on the Cadastre not having
paid any rent in the past.

The said offer is thus made by the undersigned, to take effect only on its accepta-
tion by the Crown, and on the condition notwithstanding the obligation to pay said
rent, there be issued by the Crown letters patent or titles of concession of the right
of property and free possession of the said lands in favour of the proprietors and
possessor mentioned, the whole with which these presents can be interpreted as
bearing any admission no more than any abandonment of rights whatever on the
part of the undersigned, who reserve themself the benefit of all their rights and titles;
as long as a settlement of this affair has been arrived at by the parties here con-
cerned.

The lands for which the said rent is offered and the issue of said title asked for,
are those mentioned in the report of Mr. Spragge, made to the Government in or
about 1869, after the enquiry made by Mr. Commissioner Armstrong, to which re-
port it is humbly referred.

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