We, Robert Mackenzie, Local Superintendent and Commissioner, and William
Wawanosh, Chief and Interpreter to the Chippewa Indians of Sarnia, do hereby affirm
and certify that the following surreader was freely assented to at a full general
council of the said Band, summoned for that purpose on the date therein mentioned,
and that the said assent was given all but unanimously, there being but six dissen”

ters therefrom.
ROBIS MACKENZIE, VS. & C.
WILLIAM WAWANOSH.
Sworn before me at the Town of Sarnia. |
in the County of Lambton, ‘this!
fifteenth day of January, A.D., 1875.1
CHARLES Ropinson, f
Judge County Court, |
County of Lambton. |
Recorded 18th February, 1875.

Liber S, Folio 212. :
R. W. Scort, Secretary of State and Registrar General of Canada.

No. 144.

Know att Men sy THESE Presents, that we, the Chiefs, Principal Men and War-
riors of the Chippewa and Pottowatomie Indians of Walpole Island, being this day
assembled in our council house to the number of about two hundred, in presence of
our Visiting Superintendent, have agreed to surrender, and do hereby surrender and
yield up unto our Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her successors and assigns, all that
certain portion of land and marsh, forming the lower or southern portion of our said
island, which may be described as follows, namely : All that is bounded on the west
by the St. Clair River, on the east by the Shewetagan Creek or Channel, and on the
south by the Lake St. Clair, which portion is commonly known as Squirrel Island ;
thence from the southern mouth of the Shewetagan Channel or Creek along the
shore to the mouth of Johnson’s Lake, and thence in a northerly direction to Goose
Lake ; from thence westerly along the eastern edge of the swamp or marsh known
as Grassy Bend until Shewetagan Channel is reached.

To rue Enp that the said described territory may be leased for sporting. or shoot-
ing purposes, to such persons, and on such terms as the Honourable the
Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs for the Dominion of Canada may consider
to be most for our benefit and advantage, and the preservation of our game from
unlicensed trespassers—conditional, however, on the full reservation to ourselves and
our people of the right to trap muskrat and take fish over the said described
territory. :

And also, that the rental to be derived from the leasing of the same shall be dis-
tributed to us and our people, semi-annually, as an addition to our ordinary annuity
and interest monies, in the following manner and proportion, namely: Three-fourths
to the Chippewas and one-fourth to the Pottowatomies of this Island.

In Wrrness Wuereor, we have hereunto set our hands and seals at Walpole
Island, this seventeenth day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five.

CHARLES KIYOSHK, JosEPH Isaac, x
ALEX. JOHNSON, X OHAWAY, X
JosePH Kowsop, x PADATHIGOSHING, X
JACOB KIYOSHK, X NAHNAHQUA, X
PETME-GE-SHIG, X MASHKEYAH, X

6. BIRD; x (JUEESHQUAH, x
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SoLomon Parrasue, xX JAMES SEDAH, X
Grorce Naags, x SHUHNOO, X
JAMES OSAHGEE, X Hopan, x
Epwarp NAKDEE, X GWAHKOOHEMAH, X
JOHN CHAWMIEE, X QUAQUADAHSUNG, X
A. G. Hemy, x DaKONSZHA, X

y WAZAHWEGONABY, X Puitie Kiyosux, x
PswaMoo, X JOHN NAGGS, x
JAMES PAHDAKOUNG, X ' Davin KryosHK, x
Tuos. ENeMre KErrORCE, X SAMUEL WHITE, X ~
TAKOOSE, X GOOSHKEMEG, X
SHAWANOONCE, X MUH-KUH-DAPENANCY, X
WAMITEGOZHEENS, X JoHN MoKEWENAH, X
ALEXANDER GREENBIRD, X JOSEPH KiyoSHK, X
JoserpH AW-DUN, X JoHN LAVON, x |
JAMES PENASHEENS, X CHAHGAHBEB, X
WEEHOO, X NaHWAKODOO, X
JOHN RILEY, X OZAHVIB, X
CHARLES NADIN, X Ls at aes ar NANAHGAHWAH, X
JOHN PENANCE, X MESUK, X
JACOB NAWINDAHSING, X KENOOSHNAHGUN, X
JOHN DAKAHBUN, X THOMAS JOHNSON, X
HAGONABE, X _ ABRAM JAMES, X
JOHN PENANCE, X PEENDENWON, X
PEMAHQUADOONCE, X > -\CHEBEYAH, x
Wiuiiam Epwarpbs, x ALEXANDER B, Birp, X

ASHKEBEE, X

Signed in presence of |
ANDREW JAMIESON, |
Missionary, b
& ANDREW JACOBS, |
Potawatamie School-teacher. }

We, Robert Mackenzie, Visiting Superintendent and Commissioner, and Charles
Kiyoshk, acting Interpreter, and one of the Chiefs of the Chippewas of Walpole
Island, hereby certify that the above surrender was freely assented to by an all but
unanimous vote, at a full council of the Chippewas and Pottowatomies of Walpole
Island, duly summoned for the purpose expressed in the surrender on the day of

the date therein expressed.
ROBT. MACKENZIE, ;
2 V. S. and Comr.

CHARLES KIYOSHK,
Councillor and Interpreter.

Sworn before me at Sarnia, in the County |
of Lambton, Province of Ontario, Al
the eighteenth day of June, A.D. 1875.

YHARLES RosInson,
Judge County Court,
County of Lambton.

Recorded 20th September, 1875.
Liber S., Folio 230.

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

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