139 No. 205. ; Carrapoc InpiaNn Reserve, 25th July, 1883. We the Chiefs and Principal Men of the Band of Indians known as the Chip- pewas of the Thames, in full council assembled, which meeting of council has been called according to our rules, and presided over by our local Agent, Thos. Gordon, Fisq., to take into consideration the advisability of leasing that part of the Carradoe Indian Reserve over which we have control, or such part of it as is occupied by us;: to Geo. Birrell, Esq., of London, and others, for a term of five years, by their paying: for the use of such lands, for shooting purposes only, the sum of one hundred dollars yearly, have unanimously agreed to request the Indian Department, Ottawa, to take the usual steps as are in such cases necessary to effect the issuing of a lease covering cur lands and granting the exclusive right to hunt or shoot on the said lands as above stated. As witness our hands, on the day and at the place above mentioned, but no sur- render of our lands to be made for the above object. JOSEPH FisHEer, Chief. JoB FISHER, NELSON BEAVER, Gro. FISHER, ABEL WAUCAUSH, PETER BEAVER, G. MIsKOKOMON, his JOHN T. x WAUCAUSH, mark. his JAMES x ALWAY, mark. JOHN HENRY, his WiuuiaM x FRENCH, mark. his EPHRAIM x ‘TURNER, mark. his JAMES x GROOSEBACK, mark. his Davip x SENECA, mark. his THoMas x FISHER, mark. his Moses x SENECA. mark. his Tsaac x HENRY, mark. j his JOHN x Monpway. mark. Country or MuIppLEsEx,] Crry.or LONDON. To Wit: We, Thomas Gordon, of the Town of Strathroy, in the County vf Middlesex, Indian Agent, and Joseph Fisher, Head Chief of the Indians known as the Chippe- was of the Thames, say : i—304 140 ist. We were both at the meeting of council of the Chippewa Indians of the Thames, which meeting of council was held on the 25th inst., as stated in exhibit \, hereunto attached. 2nd. The consent of a majority of the voting members was given to the Indian Department at the said meeting of council to lease that portion of the said Indian reserve which is occupied or owned by the said Band for shooting purposes, as set forth in the said exhibit. Sworn to before me at the City of | don, in the County of Middlesex, this THOMAS GORDON, 27th day of July, A.D. 1883, by({ JOSEPH FISHER. Thomas Gordon and Joseph Fisher. | Wituiam Exuiort, . Judge of the County Court, County of Middlesex. No. 206. This Indenture, made the twentieth day of June, in the year of Qur Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, between Thomas Hughes, of St. Mary’s, in the County of York, farmer, of the one part, and Our Lady Queen Victoria, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of the other part. Witnesseth, that for and in consideration of the sum of twenty pounds of lawful money of New Brunswick to the said Thomas Hughes in hand well and truly paid by Our said Lady the Queen, at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt and payment whereof is hereby acknowledged, he the said Thomas Hughes hath granted, bargained and sold, and by these presents doth grant, bargain and sell unto Our said Lady the Queen, Her successors and assigns, all that certain piece cr parcel of land and premises situate, lying and being in the parish and county aforesaid, and in the Province of New Brunswick, directly opposite the city of Fredericton, and bounded and described as follows, viz. : All that portion of lot pumber twenty-two, third class, letter C, in the grant to the Maryland Loyalists, to Xenophon Jouett, fourth of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and bounded as follows : Beginning at the eastern bank or shore of the River St. John at the western angle of the said lot number twenty-two; thence running north-easterly along the upper side line of said lot (or along the lower line of lands owned by Francis Hays) to the post road, thence south-easterly along the said road to a point which is distant fourteen rods rectangularly from the said upper line of said lot, and thence south-westerly parallel to said upper line to the bank or shore of the River St. John above mentioned, and thence along the same up stream to the place of be- ginning, containing two and a half acres more or less, being a part of the lands con- veyed by the Reverend William Jaffrey and wife to the said’ Thomas Hughes, by deed bearing date the fifteenth day cf June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, duly recorded in Book P, No. 2, of Records, Deeds and Wills for York County, pages 138 and 139, as by reference thereto will more fully appear : together with all and singular the rights, members, privileges, improve- ments and hereditaments whatsoever thereunto belonging or in anywise appertain- ing ; and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof; also all the estate, right, title, interest, property, possession, claim and demand whatsoever of the said Thomas Hughes, in law or equity, of, in, to or out of the said lands and premises, and every part thereof, to have and to hold all and singular the lands and premises, hereby granted, bargained and sold, or intended so to be, with the appurtenances unto Our said Sovereign Queen Victoria, Her suc- cessors and assigns, to the only proper use, benefit and behoof of Our said Sovereign Queen Victoria, Her successors and assigns forever. Iy Wirvess Wuereor, the said Thomas Hughes, hath hereunto set his hand and seal: and Margaret, wife of the said Thomas Hughes, hath also hereunto set her band and seal, in token of her relinquishment of dower or thirds, and of all right