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surrendered lands; and also, that from and out of the first moneys to be received
from the sale of the said lands there shall be made a distribution of two dollars to
each individual member of the Band residing at Wagadmatcook Reserve, aforesaid.

Tx Wrryzss to all which convenants and conditions we, the said Chiefs, Principal
Men and Warriors, have set our hands and seals to this surrender, executed in dup-
licate, and dated at Middle River, in the County of Victoria, Province of Nova
Scotia, and Dominion of Canada, this first day of September, in the year of Our

Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

Present: | his

Jos. B. McDonatp, ‘ NEWELL ao ADDLEY, [L.8.]
; y mark.
Indian Agent, Dist. No. 7, N.S.) Dreeer and ‘Omer.
his
JOHN xX RICHARD, ES.
mark. ; d
Captain and Chief.
his :
Lewis x NEWELL, feloseei
mark. oie
One of the Principal Men.
his
Prrro xX CREMEANS, [L.S.]
mark.

One of the Principal Men.

Personally came and appeared before me at Baddeck, in the County of V
in the Province of Nova Seotia and Dominion of Canada, Joseph B. McDonald,
Indian Agent for District No. 7, in the said Province, and John Richard, Captain
and Chief, whose name is subscribed as a party to the foregoing instrument, and
made oath that they were present when the Band of Mic-Mac Indians, or a majority
of them, residing on the Reserve at Middle River, in said county, assented to the
surrender of the above described premises, on the day and in the year above men-
tioned, who were entitled to vote at a meeting called for that purpose agreeably to

their rules.

ictor1a, «

Sworn to at Baddeck this sixteenth day} eae
of September A.D. 1876, before me, B.; ee ae LIAO ecu
E. Tremaine, one of the Judges of tae > JOHN x RICHARD,
County Courts in Nova Scotia (con-| mark.

tents being first read and explained.) } Ind. Chief and Captain.

Recorded 15th Novembey, 1876.
Lib. S., Folio 384.

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

No. 156.

Surrenper by the Chief and Band of the Ojibway Indians residing on their Re-
serve in the Township of Rama, in the County and Province of Ontario and

Dominion of Canada.

Know att MEN By THESE Presents that we, the undersigned Chief and Principal
Men of the Rama Band of Ojibway Indians, resident on our Reserve in the Township
34 ‘ dt

or Rama, in the County and Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, for and
acting on behalf of the whole people of our said Band, do hereby remise, release,
surrender, quit claim and yield up to our Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her heirs and
successors forever, all and singular that certain parcel or tract of land and premises
containing by admeasurement seventeen (17) acres, be the same more or less, being
composed of the rear parts of lots Nos. sixteen (16) and seventeen (17) mee on
Lake Coucheching, in the Township of Rama, in the County and Province of Ontario
and Dominion of Canada, and which said parcel or tract of land and premises may be
more particularly known and described as follows—that is to say: Commencing
where the limit between lots numbers seventeen (17) and eighteen (18) in the first.
Range of the said Township intersects the western limit of the read in rear of the
said range; thence in a south-easterly direction, following the said limit of the said
road allowance, five hundred and fifty feet, more or less, to the water’s edge of Lake
St. John: thence in a southerly direction following the water’s edge of the said lake
to the intersection of the division line between lots numbers fifteen (15) and sixteen
(16) in the said front range; thence westerly following the said division line be-
tween the said lots, cight hundred and fifty feet more or less, to the intersection of
the eastern limit of the right of way of the Northern Railway of Canada; thence
northerly following the said limit of the said right of way fifteen hundred and forty-
five feet, more or less, to the division line between lots numbers seventeen and
eighteen aforesaid ; thence easterly following the said division line between the said.
lots two hundred oe more or less to the place of beginning.

To have and to hold the same unto Her said Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and
successors forever.
s In trust, to sell and convey the same to such person or persons and upon such
terms and conden as the Government of this Dominion aforesaid may deem most
conducive to the interest of us and our people in all time to come.

And upon the further condition that all money received from the sale or lease
thereof shall, after deducting the usual expenses of management, be placed at interest,
and the interest accruing from such investment shall be paid annually or sem1i-
annually to us and our descendants.

And we, the said Chief and Principal Men of the said Rama Band of Ojibway
Indians do, on behalf of our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confirm and
promise to ratify and confirm, whatever the said Government of this said Dominion
may do or cause to be lawfully done in connection with the disposal and sale of said

land.

Ix Witness Wuereor, we, the said Chief and Principal Men, have set our hands
and affixed our seals unto this instrument at the time and place hereinafter men-
tioned.

Executed at Rama this eighteenth day of January, in the year of Our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven. |
|

Siened, sealed and delivered, having) — J. B. NANEGESHKUNG, - [L.S.]
been first read and interpretec. in} PETER. JACOBS, L.S.]
presence of J EvisHa Sanpy, [LS]

Wm. Prummer, Supt. Comr. I.A. WituiamM Bzarty, [L.S.]

D. L. Sanson, J.P. | ~ JOSEPH VENICE, [L.8.j
JOHN NANGISHKUNG, [L.8.]
MicHarL St. GERMAIN, [L.S.]
JosEPH St. GERMAIN, [L.8.]
JOHN WILLIAMS, . [L.S.]j

GiLBeRT WILLIAMS. [L.S.]
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DOMINION OF CANADA,

Province of Ontario, County
of Simcoe.

Ko. Wat:
Personally appeared before me, William Plummer, of the City of Toronto, in

the said Province, Visiting Superintendent of Indian Affiairs, and Joseph Benson

Nanegeshkung, of the Township of Rama, in the County and Province of Ontario,
Chief of the Rama Band of Ojibway Indians, who being duly sworn severally depose
and say :

And the said William Plummer for himself saith : )

That the annexed release or surrender wag assented to by the said Joseph
Benson Nanegeshkung, he being a Chief and the only Chief of the said Tribe or
Rody of Indians, assembled at a meeting or council of the Band summoned for that
purpose.

That he was duly authorized to attend such council, by the Superintendent
General of Indian Affairs.

That the meeting or council was held in his presence and he heard such assent
given.

And the said Joseph Benson Nanegeshkung for himself saith,

That he is a Chief and the only Chief of the Rama Band of Ojibway Inaians,
and was entitled to vote at the meeting or council above mentioned.

That the annexed release or surrender was assented to by him and the Principal
Men of the said Band of Indians. .

That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band of Indians
summoned for that purpose, at which he was present, and also the said other de-
ponent, William Plummer. |

WILLIAM PLUMMER,

J. B. NANEGESHKUNG.
Sworn before me by the said]
deponents, William Plummer|
and Joseph Benson Nane-}
eeshkung, this nineteenth day |

of January, 1877. J

Jas. Ropert Gowan,
Senior Judge, County Court, County of Svmcoe.

Recorded 13th February, 1877.
Iie s:, Lol. 408.

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

No. 157 A.

Articues or A TREATY made and concluded near Carlton on the 23rd day of
August and on the 28th day of said month, respectively, and near Fort Pitt on the
9th day of September, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six, between Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland, by Her Commissioners, the Honourable Alexander Morris, Lieutenant-
Governor of the Province of Manitoba and the North-west Territories, and the
Honourable James McKay, and the Honourable William Joseph Christie, of the one
part, and the Plain and Wood Cree and the other Tribes of Indians, inhabitants of
the country within the limits hereinafter defined and described by their Chiefs,
chosen and named as hereinafter mentioned, of the other part.

Whereas the Indians inhabiting the said country have, pursuant to an appoint-

~ ment made by the said Commissioners, been convened at meetings at Fort Carlton,