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ENTRY	YEAR	MONTH	DAY	NO.	FIRSTNATIONSURRENDERING	OTHERSURRENDERER	LOCATIONNAME	COUNTY	INDEXTEXT	PAGE	VOLUME
1008	1871	9	24	164	CHIPPEWA		PARRY ISLAND	PARRY SOUND DISTRICT	BY CHIPPEWA INDIANS. TIMBER	63	II

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Date: 1871/09/24

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No. 164.

We, the undersigned Chief and Principal Men of the Band of Indians owning No. 16 (sixteen), and described in the [treaty effected on the ninth day of September, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty], with the Chiefs and Principal Men of the Ojibeway Tribe of Indians inhabiting and claiming the eastern and northern shores of Lake Huron by the Honourable William Benjamin Robinson on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland as Parry Island, being situated at Parry Sound, on the north shore of Lake Huron, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, and laid down on a plan by John Houghton Dennis, Provincial Land Surveyor, dated 9th September, 1850, on file in the head office of Indian Affairs at Ottawa, in full council of our said Band assembled at Parry Island on this 24th day of September, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, do hereby consent and agree to surrender, and by this Instrument do surrender to Her Gracious Majesty aforesaid, Her heirs and successors, in trust, to be sold for the joint benefit of our Band aforesaid, on such terms and conditions as to Her said Majesty’s Government of Canada shall seem proper, the whole of the merchantable timber on our said reserve. The entire proceeds of the sale of said timber to be invested for our sole joint benefit and for the benefit of our descendants for all time to come, in such manner as to the said Government of Canada shall seem to be most conducive to the interests of our said Band.

In Witness Whereof, we the undersigned Chiefs and Principal Men of the Band aforesaid, and as representing the entire said Band, have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals on the day and in the year first above written, in the presence of our Superintendent, William Plummer, Esquire, who has been duly authorized to accept and approve of the said surrender:

Pagaimagahbough, Chief, [L.S.]

Shi-shegwamee, 2nd Chief, [L.S.]

Waindameyance, [L.S.]

Sa-Maibah, [L.S.]

Maish-Ke-Gah-Bon, [L.S.]

Aw-Ge-Jah-Konce, [L.S.]

Shah-Won, [L.S.]

Meno-Minee, [L.S.]

Saug-Hutab, [L.S.]

Ogah-Baigezhik-goo, [L.S.]

John Bahghamigabow, [L.S.]

On behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, I, Wm. Plummer, Supt. and Comr. of Indian Affairs, hereby accept the surrender above made by the Chiefs and Principal Men of the Band owning the reserve called “Parry Island Reserve,” at Parry Sound, on the north shore of Lake Huron, of the merchantable timber on the said reserve.

Wm. Plummer, Supt. and Comr. of Indian Affairs.