The memorial of the undersigned Chiefs of the Ojibwas. Hereby
 showth, that by the treaty signed and entered the 9th day of
 September inst. between themselves and the Honable William B.
 Robinson upon the part of the Crown, whereby was ceded to the
 Crown certain lands at the Sault de Ste Marie, where of several
 parties had settled and cultivated, several of them for upwards
 of forty years and by and with the consent of ourselves and people
 scar____ one exception, all have married Indian women and by
 them have families, with these exceptions the whole of the
 inhabitants of the Sault are what are termed "half breeds" very
 many of them, the children of the sisters and the daughters of
 your memorials.They have an inheritance in the country equal to
 our own, and bound to it by as strong and heartfelt bond to, as
 we ourselves, we being apprehensive that the Govenor, having
 purchased this land of which these people, also are equally the
 rightful and just owners, it wo____ exact from them a purchase
 money, far beyond which the Goverment has paid to us, to
 participate in which the half breeds are not permited by the
 goverment.  We the Chiefs therefore had prepared an article to be
 enscribed in the deed of treaty in the following words.  "The
 schedule hereto annexed is to be taken and considered as a part
 of this treaty and tracts parts of land now in occupation or
 possession of several individuals mentioned, shall be granted
 a free grant from the Crown, to each of the individuals
 repectively and their heirs and assigns forever ______ patent to
 be issued __ soon after the signing ratification of the treaty as
 possible".  But Mr. Robinson the Commissioner not feeling himself
 authority to acc___ to such stipulation did not have it inserted
 but advised your memorialsists to appeal to the representat____
 of hge sovereign to have the people therein referred to, protected
 in their lands and properties in the manner above discribed, many
 are qualified by education, knowledge of civilized life and habits
 of industry to protect their own interest and maintain themselves
 as independant members of the community and thus the example and
 encouragement held out by the admission of the more inlightened
 of your people to all the privileges of the whites will be the
 highest incentive to exertion to those other of our people, who
 are not yet advanced to such a stage of civilisation as would
 enable them to take care of themselves.
 Another article we had desired to introduce was as follows.  "It
 being deemed important that the "half breeds" _ealfered through
 this extensive country, shall be stimulated to exertion and
 improvement by the possession of permanent property and fixed
 residences by the Odjibwa nation, in consideration there of
 the affection they bear these people and their children and the
 interest they feel in their welfare, grant to each of the persons
 discribed in the schedule hereto annexed one hundred acres of
 land to be located upon the same part of the lands ceded by this
 treaty and that patents for each hundred acres, shall be granted
 by the Goverment to the individuals respectively and their heirs
 forever, so soon as the participants therein referred to, shall
 have the location they desire respectively.
 The same reasons which precluded the above articles applies also
 to the following. "The majority of the inhabitants of the Sault 
 being attached to the Roman Catholic Relegion and having for
 many years past, s___part a piece of ground for the purposes of
 a chapel and Misson house and upon which also is their burring
 ground, the same shall be granted by patent to the Roman
 Catholic Bishop of Toronto and successors on office for their
 purposes above mentioned - and your memorialists will ever pray.

 Witness

Inhabitants Sault Ste. Marie and the Chiefs of the Ojibwa Tribe.
 By Hon. W. B. Robinson.  On the Subject of the Lands Occupied
 By Them By the Late Treaty With The Indians

 Recorded - 24 Oct. 1850

 List Of Names To Which The Article Refers Regarding That One
 Hundred Acres Of Land Be Granted To Certain Half Breeds.

  
See Early Families of Sault Ste. Marie - 1846.
to review the properties in question on this petition.

Source: Transcribed from the original,
E.B. Borron Papers, Ontario Provincal Archives, Toronto, Ontario.