 The treaty had been negotiated between the British colony's representative William B. Robinson and numerous Ojibwa chiefs from the Lake Huron watershed earlier that year, and had been signed by these representatives on Sept. 9, 1850.The treaty extinguished Ojibwa title to the land in exchange for 17 reserve lands and annual annuities.Each reserve had to register its band members because an increase to annuity amounts would be determined on a per-person basis.