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Memorandum of things outside of the Treaty which were promised at the Treaty at the
Lower Fort, signed the $rd day of August, A.D. 1871.

For each Chief who signed the treaty, a dress distinguishing him as Chief.

For braves and for councillors of each Chief a dress; it being supposed that the
braves and councillors will be two for each Chief.

For each Chief, except Yellow Quill, a buggy.

For the braves and councillors of each Chief, except Yellow Quill, a buggy.

In lieu of a yoke of oxen for each reserve, a bull for each, and a cow for each
Chief; a boar for each reserve and a sow for each Chief, and a male and female of each
Kind of animal raised by farmers, these when the Indians are prepared to receive
them.

A plough and a harrow for each settler cultivating the ground.

These animals and their issue to be Government property, but to be allowed for
the use of the Indians, under the superintendence and control of the Indian Com-
missioner.

The buggies to be the property of the Indians to whom they are given.

The above contains an inventory of the terms concluded with the Indians.

WEMYSS M. SIMPSON,
MOLYNEUX Sr. JOHN,
A. G. ARCHIBALD,
JAS. McKAY.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF CANADA,
REGISTRAR’S BRANCH, Orrawa 12th December, 1871.

I hereby certify that this treaty and annexed memorandum have been duly
entered on the records of this Department in Lib. S., folios 47 to 51, inclusive.

J. Cy ARKINS,
Secretary of State and Registrar-General of Canada.

No. 124’.

Tus InpeNTURE, made on the eighteenth day of July, in the fifty-seventh year of
the reign of Our Sovereign Lord King George the Third, and in the year of Our
Lord eighteen hundred and seventeen, between the undersigned Chiefs and Warriors
of the Chippeway or Sautaux Nation, and of the Killistine or Cree Nation, on the
one part, and the Right Honorable Thomas Earl of Selkirk, on the other part,
Witnesseth: that for and in consideration of the annual present or quit-rent herein-
after mentioned the said Chiefs have given, granted and confirmed, and do by these
presents give, grant and confirm unto Our Sovereign Lord the King, all that tract
of land adjacent to Red River, and Assiniboyne River, beginning at the mouth of
Red River and extending along the same as far as the Great Forks at the mouth of
Red Lake River, and along the Assiniboyne River as far as the Musk Rat River,
otherwise called Riviére des Champignons, and extending to the distance of six miles
from Fort Douglas on every side, and likewise from Fort Daer, and also from the
Great Forks, and in other parts extending in breadth to the distance of two English
statute miles back from the banks of the said river, on each side, together with all
the appurtenances whatsoever of the said tract of land, to have and to hold forever
the said tract of land and appurtenances, to the use of the said Karl of Selkirk and
of the settlers being established thereon, with the consent and permission of Our
Sovereign Lord the King, or of the said Karl of Selkirk; provided always, and these
presents are under the express condition, that the said Earl, his heirs and successors,
or their agents,-shall annually pay to the Chief and Warriors of the Chippeway or
Sautaux Nation the present or quit-rent, consisting of one hundred pounds weight of
good and merchantable tobacco, to be delivere1 on or before the tenth day of October

at the Forks of Assiniboyne River, and to the Chiefs and Warriors of Killistine or
Cree Nation a like present or quit-rent of one hundred pounds weight of tobacco, to
he delivered to them on or before the said tenth day of October at Portage de la
Prairie. on the banks of Assiniboyne River, provided always that the traders hitherto
established upon any part of the above mentioned tract of land shall not be molested
in the possession of the lands which they have already cultivated and improved till |
His Majesty’s pleasure shall be known.

IX Wrrxess Wuerror the Chiefs aforesaid have set their marks, at the Forks of

Red River, on the day aforesaid. t
Signed in presence of: Marcuin WHEWAaB, his (totem) mark, :
SELKIRK, Le Sonnant. —
THOMAS THOMAS, MnrCEHKADETTINNAH, his (totem) mark, 5
James Birp, La Robe Noire. &
Fr. Marrury, Captain, JXAYAGUSKEBINOA, his (totem) mark, €
P. D. Orsonnios, Captain, L’Homme Nov.
Mites McDOoNNELL, Prawiss, his (totem) mark,
J. Bre. Cus. DELOoRIMIER, OuckIpoaT, his (totem) mark,
Louis Nour, Interpreter. Premier.
1242,

Copy of a Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by —
His Excellency the Governor General in Councilon the 30th April, 1875.

On a memorandum dated 27th April, 1875, from the Honourable the Minister of
the Interior, bringing under consideration the very unsatisfactory state of affairs
arising out of the so-called “outside promises” in connection with the Indian
Treaties Nos. 1 and 2, Manitoba and North-west Territories, concluded, the former 7
on the 3rd August, 1871, and the latter on 21st of the same month, and recommending ©
for the reasons stated :—

1st. That the written memorandum attached to Treaty No. 1 be considered as
part of that treaty and of Treaty No. 2, and that the Indian Commissioner be in- —
structed to carry out the promises therein contained, in so far as they have not yet
been carried out, and that the Commissioner be advised to inform the Indians that he
has been authorized so to do.

ond. That the Indian Commissioner be instructed to inform the Indians, parties
to Treaties Nos. 1 and 2, that, while the Government cannot admit their claim to any
thing which is not set forth in the treaty, and in the memorandum attached thereto,
which treaty is binding alike upon the Government and upon the Indians, yet, as
there seems to have been some misunderstanding between the Indian Commissioner
and the Indians in the matter of Treaties Nos. 1 and 2, the Government, out of good
feeling to the Indians and as a matter of benevolence, is willing to raise the annual
payment to each Indian under Treaties Nos. 1 and 2, from $3 to $5 per annum, and
make payment over ard above such sum of $5, of $20 each and every year to each
Chief, and a suit of clothing every three years to each Chief and each Headman,
allowing two Headmen to each band, on the express understanding, however, that
each Chief or other Indian who shall receive such increased annuity or annual pay-
ment shall be held to abandon all claim whatever against the Government in connec-
tion with the so-called “outside promises,” other than those contained in the memo-

randum attached to the treaty.
Tne Committee submit the foregoing recommendation for Your Excellency’s ©

approval:

Ww. A. HIMSWORTH,
Clerk Privy Council,

Certified,
W. A. HimswortuH,
Clerk Privy Council.

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