Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat
Certificate of the record
Exclusive Use and Enjoyment — Not occupation, not a collective: an interest held person by person, locked to the land until the class surrenders it.
POS001-261030-000006 · version 1 · A draft — not yet for use
What it is
The companion to Acquired Territory: two pathways through the same courtroom, the band’s by section 35 with a duty to consult ending in compensation, and the Mohawk class’s by sections 109 and 52 with a duty to obey, failing which may be criminal, ending in the land locked to the class; the lock itself, St Catherine’s Milling, Seybold the trigger, no surrender ever, and the unborn posterity who hold it too; the promise of 1779, who made it and to whom, not a collective, not a body politic, not a trust; the Declaration’s article 26 and its neighbours; and territory in depth, the air, the waters, the land and below. The web edition sets every stop on the band’s lane beside its answer on the Mohawk lane, right under the lanes, occupation or enjoyment, a collective or a blood right, consult or observe, justify or infringement, settle or bad faith, money or the land; reads each Mohawk stop from the Pledge of 1779 to the zero surrenders; follows the s. 35 road step by step to show how it would destroy the interest; follows the s. 109 and s. 52 road the same way, the Province encumbered, no surrender and a latent defect, section 52 holding it, the Tract never dedicated, and why the Province needs a band and s. 88 to come in; tries the key of surrender in the padlock, which holds, and steps one house’s title through a defect in title, in British Columbia under Cowichan and on the Grand.
| Its date | 2026-10-29e |
| Made by | Mohawk’s Printer for Grand River |
| Their qualifications | Drawn by Mohawk’s Printer for Grand River from the National Books’ own data; Book II, The Acquired Territory Doctrine; with Acquired Territory shows it on a page of its own. |
| Their duty | Not recorded. |
| Its standing as a survey | This is the Nation’s determination, made from the sources named; it is not a survey under the Surveyors Act, and was not prepared by a licensed surveyor. |
| Datum and projection | Not a map; the Three Villages’ inset keeps the land map’s datum (NAD83 / UTM zone 17N). |
How it was made
An illustration, drawn from the sources below; printed in A3 landscape (420 × 297 mm), with A2 and A1 print files, 3 mm bleed and crop marks.
How surely
An illustration, not a survey: the figures stand for no particular family. The Three Villages’ inset is the Register’s own land map, drawn from its layers.
A poster: it teaches, and does not decide. The record of any person’s line is the Register’s.
Its sources
What it carries
✓ A title · ✓ Its maker · ✓ Its date · ✓ A scale bar · ✓ A scale ratio (1 : n) · ✓ North · ✓ A legend · ✓ Its datum and projection · ✓ Its sources, with their dates · ✓ A statement of its accuracy · ✓ A locator (where it is in the wider world) · ✓ Its credits and licences
Its files, and their fingerprints (SHA-256)
Its entries in the integrity log
How the records are kept
The records of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat are kept in the Nation’s Register, an electronic records system kept in the usual and ordinary course of the Secretariat’s work. When a file is taken into the Map Room its SHA-256 fingerprint is taken at once and entered in the Register’s integrity log, in which every entry is sealed with the fingerprint of the entry before it; a certified version’s files cannot be changed, and a change makes a new version, the old being kept. At the date of this certificate the log holds 36 entries and, read through, every entry seals the one before it.
To cite it
Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat, Exclusive Use and Enjoyment (poster), POS001-261030-000006, version 1, 28 October 2026. https://mohawkuniversity.org/Register/verify/POS001-261030-000006
A draft affidavit of the custodian of the records
To be read with counsel before it is used; to be sworn or affirmed before a commissioner.
I, ______________________, of ______________________, MAKE OATH (or AFFIRM) AND SAY:
1. I am the ______________________ of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat, and have the keeping of its records, and so have knowledge of the matters below.
2. Attached as Exhibit “___” is a true copy of the record POS001-261030-000006, version 1, “Exclusive Use and Enjoyment”, as it is kept in the Secretariat’s records.
3. The records of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat are kept in the Nation’s Register, an electronic records system kept in the usual and ordinary course of the Secretariat’s work. When a file is taken into the Map Room its SHA-256 fingerprint is taken at once and entered in the Register’s integrity log, in which every entry is sealed with the fingerprint of the entry before it; a certified version’s files cannot be changed, and a change makes a new version, the old being kept. At the date of this certificate the log holds 36 entries and, read through, every entry seals the one before it.
4. The SHA-256 fingerprint of each file of the record, as it was taken into the records, is set out in the certificate of the record attached; the fingerprint of the copy attached is the same.
5. To my knowledge the system was at all material times operating properly, and nothing in it has been altered except as recorded in its integrity log.
SWORN (or AFFIRMED) before me at ______________________, on ______________________.
Electronic documents are received as evidence on proof that they are what they purport to be, and of the integrity of the system that kept them (Canada Evidence Act, ss. 31.1–31.3; Evidence Act (Ontario), s. 34.1). This certificate sets out that record; whether a record is admitted, and its weight, are for the court.
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