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ENTRY YEAR MONTH DAY NO. FIRSTNATIONSURRENDERING OTHERSURRENDERER LOCATIONNAME COUNTY INDEXTEXT PAGE VOLUME
1557 1901 4 26 446 MUD LAKE BAND SMITH TOWNSHIP PETERBOROUGH COUNTY BY MUD LAKE BAN. THE MISSION PROPERTY (40.5 ACRES). TO BE LEASED 332
1733 1901 4 26 446 SMITH TOWNSHIP PETERBOROUGH COUNTY (MUD LAKE BAND) THE MISSION PROPERTY (40.5 ACRES). TO BE LEASED 332
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446

Date: 1901/04/26

445 447

Source Document Transcription

No. 446.

Know all Men by these Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and Principal men of The Mud Lake Band of Indians resident on our Reserve in the Township of Smith in the County of Peterborough 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 Lord The King, his Heirs and Successors forever, ALL AND SINGULAR, that certain parcel or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the Mud Lake Indian Reserve in the County of Peterborough and Province of Ontario containing by admeasurement Forty acres and five tenths of one acre be the same more or less and being composed of the Mission Property lying west of Chemung’s Street, in the said Reserve, excepting thereout a School and Dwelling House Lot, containing One and Twenty-two one hundredths acres of land.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto His said Majesty, The King, his 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 us and our descendants annually or semi-annually as the Department of Indian Affairs may seem best in our interests

AND WE, the said Chief and Principal men of the said Mud 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 26th day of April in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered, in the presence of

Wm. McFarlane

Joseph Irons


Joseph Irons Chief [L.S.]

Daniel Whetung Jr. [L.S.]

Samson Faun [L.S.]

Willie Whetung [L.S.]

George Taylor [L.S.]


Richmond P. Tobico [L.S.]

George Johnston [L.S.]

John W. Jacobs [L.S.]

Joseph Whetung [L.S.]

Isaiah Keshige [L.S.]


DOMINION OF CANADA,

Province of Ontario

County of Peterborough

To Wit:

Personally appeared before me, William McFarlane of the Township of Otonabee County of Peterborough in the Province of Ontario Indian Agent of the Mud Lake Band of Indians and Joseph Irons Chief of the said Band of Indians.

AND the said William McFarlane 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 Township of Smith in the County of Peterborough 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 their 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 Joseph Irons for himself 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 their Rules, and held in the presence of the said William McFarlane

That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not an 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 two Deponents William McFarlane and Joseph Irons at the Town of Peterborough in the County of Peterborough this 16th day of May A.D., 1901


Wm. McFarlane

Joseph Irons.


H. Ross

J.P.

County of Peterborough


Accepted by the Governor in Council on the 6th June 1901

John J. McGee

Clerk of the Privy Council.


Recorded 4th September 1901

Lib 176. Fol. 20.

P. Pelletier

Actg. Dep. Registrar General of CanadaFile:446.txt

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  1. Canada. Indian Treaties and Surrenders from No. 281 to No. 483. CIHM/ICMH Digital Series = CIHM/ICMH Collection Numérisée. Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, 1912.