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Accepted by the Governor in Council on the 7th July 1898.
JOHN J. McGEE
Clerk of the Privy Council.

Recorded, 3rd August 1898.
Lib: 149. Fol: 530.

P. PELLETIER
Acting Vep: Registrar General of Canada.

No. 403.

Know aut Men sy Turse Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and
Principal men of The River Desert Band of Indians resident on our Reserve at Mani-
waki in the County of Ottawa in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, for
and acting on behalf of the whole people of our said Band in Council assembled, Do
hereby release, remise, surrender, quit claim and yield up unto Our Sovereign Lady
The Queen, her Heirs and Successors forever, ALL AND SINGULAR, that certain
parcel or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the Maniwaki Indian
Reserve in the County of Ottawa and Province of Quebec containing by admeasure-
ment Two acres be the same more or less and being composed of that certain portion of
land, being composed of two acres of Lot 14, Road Range West, in the Maniwaki
Indian Reserve and being described as follows:—Commencing at the North West
angle of the said Lot 14, thence East along the North limit of the said Lot eleven
chains and eighty two links; thence South one Chain to the initial point and North
West angle of the said portion of land; thence South five Chains; thence East Four
Chains; thence North Five Chains and thence West Four Chains to the initial point,
together with a right of way across Lot 14 from the public road to the said portion
of land.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty THe Queen, her
Heirs and Successors forever, in trust to sell the same to such person or persons, and
upon such terms as the Government of the Dominion of Canada may deem most con-
ducive to our welfare and that of our people. s

AND upon the further condition that all moneys received from the sale thereof,
shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management, be placed to
our credit and the Interest thereon paid to us and our descendants annually or semi-
annually as to the Department of Indian Affairs may seem best in our interests.

AND WE, the said Chief and Principal men of the said River Desert Band of
Indians do on behalf of our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confirm, and
promise to ratify and confirm, whatever the said Government may do, or cause to be
lawfully done, in connection with the sale of the said land and the disposition of the
moneys arising therefrém.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our
seals this fourth day of June in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and

ninety eight

Signed, Sealed and Delivered, in the pre: NPAT SN GOMER AN [L.S.]
sence of Joun McDoucan [L.S.]
W. J. McCarrrey Simon OrsiK [L.S.]

Indian Agent
DOMINION OF CANADA, 5 Personally appeared before me, William
PROVINCE OF QUEBEC ‘| James McCaffrey Indian Agent of the
County or Orrawa Village of Maniwaki in the Province of

To Wit: Quebee and Simon Otjik Chief of the

said Band of Indians.

AND the said William James McCaffrey for himself saith :—

That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by a majority of the male
members of the said Band of Indians of the Maniwaki Reserve of the full age of
twenty-one years then present.

That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band summoned
for that purpose and according to their Rules.

That he was present at such meeting or council and heard such assent given.

That he was duly authorized to attend such council or meeting by the Supe:
intendent General of Indian Affairs.

That no Indian was present or voted at said council or meeting who was not a
a

member of the Band or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Sur-
render. :

And the said Simon Otjik says:

That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by him and a majority of
the male members of the said Band of Indians of the full age of twenty-one years
then present.

That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band of Indians
summoned for that purpose, according to their Rules, and held in the presence of the
said William James McCaffrey.

That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not a
habitual resident on the Reserve of the said Band of Indians or interested in the land
mentioned in the said Release or Surrender.

That he is a Chief of the said Band of Indians and entitled to vote at the said
meeting or council.

Sworn before me by the Deponents
at the | W. J. McCarrrey
Township of Maniwaki in the County Indian Agent.
of Ottawa this Twenty-eighth day of | Son Orsik
June A.D., 1898

J. L. St. JULIEN
District Magistrate for the
Districts of Ottawa, Terrebonne & Pontiac.

Recorded 13th September 1898
Lib 150 Fol. 409.
P. PELLETIER
Actg. Dep. Registrar General of Canada