89 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. 1—27 90 And we request Mr. H. Vassal, agent of the Indians, of the advice of these latter, to make known our offers above mentioned to the competent authorities and adopt of measures that he will think necessary to arrive at the conclusion of this affair. — In faith of which we have signed at St. Francois-du-Lac, this 20th May, 1880. Signed, &e., &e. At a Council General of the Chiefs and members of the Indian Tribe of Abenakis of the village of St. Francis de Sales, held according to general convocation, at the usual place of sittings at the said village on the first of July, 1880, to which council are at present: Henry Vassal, Agent; Solomon Benedict, Grand Chief; Joseph Lau- rent, H. L. Masta and Louis Nagazoa, Chiefs, and other members of the tribe; Mr. H. Vassal, Agent of the tribe, submits to that council a certain document dated at St. Francis du Lae, the 20th May last, signed by the Hon. Charles Gill, Victor Gladu, Madame Jane Allmott and other whites, proposing and offering to pay to the Crown for the benefit of the tribe of Abenakis, an established rent to the amount of 30 cents per annum for each acre of lands mentioned in the report of Mr. Spragge made to the Government of Canada in or about 1869, after the enquiry made by Mr. Commis- sioner James Armstrong, the said rent to be redeemable by paying the principal which _ it represents at six per cent, in deducting the rents already imposed on those said lands, comprised in the Cadastre of the Seigniory of the said Indians mude by Mr. H. Judah, Seigniorial Commissioner, the said proposed rent to be payable on the 15th January annually, and to run from the 15th January, 1879, the arrears of the rents already paid for the lands entered in the Cadastre to be deducted from the new pro- posed rent, in such a way as to equalize the latter lands with those which, not having been entered on the Cadastre, have not paid any rents in the past, the said offer there- fore made subject to it~ acceptation by the Crown and to the granting of letters pat- ent or titles of concessions of the right of property and free vossession of the said lands in favour of the proprietors and possessors mentioned, and under the other con- ditions and restrictions brought forward in the above mentioned document. Reading of the said document havine been done by H. L. Masta, one of the Chiefs, and ex- planation having been given by H. Vassal, Agent, and the said document having been » taken in consigeration by this Council, it was proposed and unanimously resolved by said council : That the offer and proposition made to pay the said rent of 30 cents per acre of the said lands, to the terms, clauses, and conditions mentioned in the said docu- ment, dated the 20th May last, be accepted by this council, for and in the name of the said Tribe, as compensation and in payment of the rights of the Tribe and of the Crown on the said lands mentioned in the said document, and in the report, &e., &c., and as a satisfactory settlement of the rights of the parties concerned, and that the Government of Canada be humbly begged to sanction, accept and put into execution the offers contained in the said document excepting, however, as to that which it concerns those of the said lands mentioned in the said report of Mr. Spragge under the numbers hereafter indicated, to which lands the present resolution does not apply itself because among other reasons these lands are in the village itself, of the Tribe, viz. :— Lot No. 4, occupied by Joseph Rascony. Lot No. 9, oecupied by Henry Vassal. Lot No. 11, occupied by Henry Vassal. ~ Lot No. 14, on Round Isle. Lots Nos. 22, 23, 24. And as to Lot No. 5, occupied by Joseph Rascony, it can be ceded subject to the payment of the rent of 30c., the same as the others, but on the condition that he must mot put up any building for the Whites nor let the Whites live in any building thereon, but the possessor or proprietor of this property may keep the barn now on the lot in repair, or rebuild another to replace this one, but only to have one barn 91 on the land for the use of the Whites which is to be used for agricultural purposes only. The lot ought also to be reduced by one-third of an acre on the west side before the sale or concession is made. The present resolution should not be adopted as giving up any of the rights of the tribe on the part of the council ; but, on the contrary, under the express reser- vation of the land rights and privileges until the final settlement of this matter is effected. And that the present resolution should be transmitted to the Government of Canada, respectfully praying them to give effect, if they think it right in their wisdom and care for the interests of this tribe to meet the ends of justice. And that Mr. Henry Vassal, Agent of the Tribe, be requested to forward this to the Government of Canada, and authorized to carry on in the name of the Tribe, all correspondence and negotiations tending to the conclusion and final settlement of this matter. He iL: MASTA, Chief. JOS. LAURENT, LOUIS NAGAZOA, We, the undersigned, Henry Vassal, Acting Agent for the Abenakis Tribe of Indians of St. Francis, and Louis Nagazoa, one of the Chiefs of the said Tribe, having both been duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists, do solemnly swear and make oath that the foregoing resolution has been adopted according to its form and tenor to all intents and purposes by the Tribe at a general council thereof and subscribed by the Chiefs of the said Tribe, and we have signed. Sworn before me, one of the Justices of the Superior Court for Lower Canada, residing at Sorel, in the District of Riche-| H. VASSAL, lieu, within the limits of which Indian Agent. is located the reserve of the said “LOUIS NAGAZOA, Abenakis Tribe, on this eighth| Chief. day of January, 1881. | ! CHARLES GILL, a. C. Privy Councit OFFICE, Ortawa, 7th January, 1881. I hereby certify that the foregoing agreement, dated 1st of July, 1880, has been accepted by His Excellency the Governor General in Council on this the 7th of Febru- ary, 1881. i220. COTE, Clerk Privy Council. Recorded 4th March, 1881. Lib. 44, from folio 704 to 707, both inclusive. L. A. CATELLIER, Dep. Registrar-General of Canada. No. 182. Tus InDEeNTURE, made the 30th day of April, A.D. 1881, between Preston Bennett, Moses Lumby and Frederick Bennett, all of Yale District, British Columbia, Gentle- men, and Robert Edwin Jackson, of the City of Victoria, in said Province, Esquire, who executes these presents at the request of the said Preston Bennett, Moses Lumby and Frederick Bennett, hereinafter called the vendors, of the first part; and Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, of the second part : Wuereas, the Honourable Sir John A. Macdonald, K.C.B., Superintendent General of Indian Affairs for the Dominion of Canada, for and in the name of Her said i907} @