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for an infant school, a hospital, smithery, a shoemaker’s shop,
and a building for joiners’ and cabinet work.

SUNDAY, E C,n.efi_.

SIMPSON,
G. COMEGO, Ch. & 1lI. Inter.

7. CHIPPEWAS AT RICE LAKE.

These Indians belong to the same tribe, the Mississagas, or
Chippewas of Rice Lake, who, in 1818, surrendered the greater
part of the tract now forming the Newcastle District, for an
annuity of £740. They have all been reclaimed from their
primitive wandering life, and settled in their present locations
within the last ten or twelve years.

The Rice Lake settlement is on the northern side of the lake,
and at about twelve miles from Peterborough. The number of
Indians is 114. They possess about 1550 acres of land, which
are subdivided into 50 acre lots; of this, 1120 acres were granted
in April, 183 4, to trustees, “in trust, to hold the same for the
benefit of the Indian tribes in the Province, and with a View to
their conversion and civilization,” and the remaining 430 have
been since purchased with their own funds. They have rather
more land cleared than the Indians of Alnwick, about 400
acres, but the cultivation is not so good. The village contains
thirty houses, three barns, a school-house, and a chapel with a
bell. The head chief ofthe tribe resides here. For some time
these Indians were under the charge of 2m otlicer appointed by
the Indian Department, who assisted in their settlement, but at

"present they have no special Superintendent.

Por'DAs1i, 2
C‘oP\V_iY, Chitfs.
CROW, g

CHIPPEWAS AT MUD LAKE.

The Mud Lake Indians are settled on a point o.-‘land on the
Mud or Chemong Lake, sixteen miles nO1llt-‘.\V".~"= of Peterbo-
rough. They are ninety-four in number, and r»~ssr.>ss twenty
dwelling houses, with three stables. They ()'.'t'tIp_§.' a grant of

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