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ENTRY | YEAR | MONTH | DAY | NO. | FIRSTNATIONSURRENDERING | OTHERSURRENDERER | LOCATIONNAME | COUNTY | INDEXTEXT | PAGE | VOLUME |
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1451 | 1892 | 3 | 22 | 305 | RICE LAKE BAND | OTONABEE TOWNSHIP | PETERBOROUGH COUNTY | BY RICE LAKE BAND. N 1/3 OF W 1/2 OF LOT 5, CON. 10 (14 1/4 ACRES) | 45 | ||
1488 | 1892 | 3 | 22 | 305 | RICE LAKE BAND | OTONABEE TOWNSHIP | PETERBOROUGH COUNTY | N. 1/3 OF W. 1/2 OF LOT 5, CON. 10 (14.25 ACRES) | 45 |
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No. 305
Know all Men by These Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and Principal Men of The Rice Lake Band of Indians, resident on our Reserve in the Township of Otonabee, 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 Successors forever, ALL AND SINGULAR, that certain parcel or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the Township of Otonabee in the County of Peterborough and Province of Ontario, containing by admeasurement Fourteen and one quarter acres be the same more or less and being composed of the cleared part of the North one third of the West half of lot Number five in the Tenth Concession of the aforesaid Township of Otonabee, excepting thereout one acre of land upon which the dwelling house is situated.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty The Queen, her Heirs and Successors forever, in trust to lease 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 leasing thereof, shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management, be paid to John D. Muskrat and Elizabeth Muskrat for their mutual benefit and support.
AND WE, the said Chief and Principal men of the said the Rice Lake 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 leasing of the said portion of land.
In Witness WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this twenty-second day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.
Signed, Sealed and Delivered, in the presence of:
Edwin Harris
John D. Muskrat [L.S.]
Jeremiah Crowe [L.S.]
Wellington Cowe [L.S.]
James Howard [L.S.]
Dan Cowen, Jr. [L.S.]
Robt. Paudash [L.S.]
Dan Fawn [L.S.]
Henry Howard [L.S.]
Dan Cowe [L.S.]
Madden Howard [L.S.]
Andrew Anderson [L.S.]
James Jarvis [L.S.]
Joseph Loukes [L.S.]
DOMINION OF CANADA,
Province of Ontario
County of Peterborough
To Wit:
Personally appeared before me, Edwin Harris of the Village of Gore’s Landing in the Province of Ontario Indian Agent and Messang George Paudash Chief of the said Band of Indians.
AND the said Edwin Harris 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 Rice Lake 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 its 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 Superintendent 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 Surrender.
And the said Messang George Paudash 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 its Rules, and held in the presence of the said Edwin Harris.
That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not a 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 Edwin Harris and Messang George Paudash at the Town of Peterborough in the County of Peterborough this 26th day of March A.D., 1892.
D. W. Dumble
Police Magistrate
Recorded 6th May 1892.
Lib: 139, Fol: 301.
L. A. Catellier
Dep: Registrar General of Canada.
- ↑ Canada. Indian Treaties and Surrenders from No. 281 to No. 483. CIHM/ICMH Digital Series = CIHM/ICMH Collection Numérisée. Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, 1912.