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No. 365.

Kyow att Men py tHese Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and
Principal men of The Alnwick Band of Mississaugua Indians resident on our Reserve
in the Township of Alnwick in the County of Northumberland in the Province of
Ontario and Dominion of Canada, for and acting on behalf of the whole people of our
said Band in Council assembled, Do hereby release, remise, surrender, quit claim and
yield up unto Our Sovereign Lady The Queen, her Heirs and Suecessors forever,
ALL AND SINGULAR, that certain parcel or tract of land and premises, situate,
lying and being in the Alnwick Indian Reserve in the County of Northumberland
and Province of Ontario containing by admeasurement Three acres and Six Hun-
dreths of one acre be the same more or less and being composed of All and Singular
that certain Block or portion of land being composed of a portion of lot number
Sixteen in the Second Concession of the said Township of Alnwick comprising the
northern portions of locations Sixty three and Sixty Five in Concession number
Two of Alnwick and more particularly described as follows—Beginning at the North
East angle of Lot number Sixteen Concession Two of Alnwick thence Westerly along
the Southern side of the Road allowance between Concessions Two and Three to the
Westerly boundary of location Sixty Five a distance of 8.75 chains more or less,
thence Southerly along the Westerly boundary of Location Sixty Five a distance of
3.50 chains, thence easterly to the side line between Lots Sixteen and Seventeen a
distance of 8.75 chains more or less, thence northerly to point of beginning 3.50
chains.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty Tur Queen, her
Heirs and Successors forever, in trust to sell the same to such person or persons, and
upon such terms as the Government of the Dominion of Canada may deem most
conducive to our welfare and that of our people.

AND upon the further condition that all moneys received from the sale thereof,
shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management, be placed
at interest and the interest thereon paid to us and our descendants as to the Super-
intendent General of Indian Affairs may seem best, less what is required to com-
pensate Locatees for improvements.

AND WE, the said Chief and Principal men of the said Band of Indians do
on behalf of our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confirm, and promise to
ratify and confirm, whatever the said Government may do, or cause to be lawfully
done, in connection with the disposal of the said land and the money derived from
the sale thereof. ;

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our
seals this 21st day of April in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety four

Signed, Sealed and Delivered, in the pre- ) PETER CROWE [L.8.]
sence of THOMAS MARSDEN [L.S.]
JOHN THACKERAY ALBERT CROW [L.S.]
Rospert MARSDEN [L.S.]

JOHN COMEGO [L.S.]

JAMES MARSDEN [L.S.]

Moses Biack [L.S.]

M. Cuuss, Chief [L.S.]

WILLIAM LUuKES [L.S.]

EBNEZAR COMEGO [L.S.]

Joun Pottock {LS.]
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Hiram BEAVER
WESLEY BEAVER
ENocH CROWE
ABNER BYGWIND
JOSEPH BEAVER
GEO. SALT

DOMINION OF CANADA, Personally appeared before me, John
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO Thackeray of the Township of Alnwick
COUNTY OF in the Province of Ontario Indian Agent
To Wit: of the Alnwick Indians and Michaell

Chubb Chief of the said Bad of Indians.

AND the said John Thackeray for himself saith :—
That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by a majority of the male
members of the said Band of Indians of the Alnwick Reserve of the full age of twenty-

one years then present.
That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band summoned

for that purpose and according to their Rules.
That he was present at such meeting or council and heard such assent given.
That he was duly authorized to attend such council or meeting by the Super-

intendent General of Indian Affairs.
That no Indian was present or voted at said council or meeting who was not a
member of the Band or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Sur-

vender.

And the said Mitehaell Chubb says:
That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by him and a majority of
the male members of the said Band of Indians of the full age of twenty-one years

then present.
That such:assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band of Indians

summoned for that purpose, according to their Rules, and held in the presence of the

said John Thackeray
That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not an
habitual resident on the Reserve of the said Band of Indians or interested in the land

mentioned in the said Release or Surrender.
That he is a Chief of the said Band of Indians and entitled to vote at the said

meeting or council.

Sworn before me by the said Deponents
John Thackeray and Michaell Chubb | Joun THackrray
at the Town of Cobourg in the County
of Northumberland this 7th day of | Mircuer, Cruse
September A.D., 1894
J. H. DumBuir
Police Magistrate
Cobourg
Accepted by the Governor in Council on the 8th July 1895.
JOHN J. McGEE
Clerk of the Privy Council.
Recorded 30th July, 1895.
Lib: 138. Fol: 510.

P. PELLETIER
Acting Dep: Registrar General of Canada.