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Before Henry Desjardins, the undesigned Notary Publie for the Province of
Quebec, residing and practising at the City of Hull, in the District of Ottawa.
Came and appeared “ The Maniwaki Driving Club”, hereto represented by John P.
Logue, merchant of Maniwaki, and President of the said “ Maniwaki Driving Club,
and James Martin, Agent of the said place of Maniwaki Secretary of the said Mani-
waki Driving Club.

Who do hereby sell, transfer and make over with warranty against all troubles and
encumbrances whatsoever, unto His Majesty the King Edward VII, hereto represented
by the Honorable Clifford Sifton, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs of the
Dominion of Canada, hereto acting as Purchaser in trust for the River Desert Band
of Indians, in virtue of an Order in Council dated the first day of August, nineteen
hundred and two (1902) the said Honorable Clifford Sifton, hereto present and
accepting for His Majesty the King, his heirs, assigns and successors, to wit:

Those parcels or tracts of land situate, lying and being in the Township of Maniwaki,
in the County of Wright, Province of Quebec, Canada, being composed of portions of
lots numbers ten (10) and eleven (11) in the Desert Front, Township of Maniwaki and
lots numbers twenty-five (25) in the fourth & fifth ranges of the Maniwaki Indian
Reserve, in the said Township of Maniwaki, said portions of said lots and lots, con-
taining thirty acres, more or less, including the Road Allowance between the said lots
and ranges, and which may be described as follows: Commencing at a point distant
eight chains from the North limit of the Road Allowance between the said Desert front
and the fourth range, and three chains West of the line between lots nine and ten,
in the Desert Front, thence south and parallel to the said line, sixteen chains to a
point in lot twenty-five in the fourth range; Thence west astronomically eighteen
chains seventy-five links to a point in lot twenty-five in the fifth range; Thence North
and parallel to the said line between lots nine (9) and ten (10) sixteen chains to a
point in lot eleven (11) in the Desert Front; Thence East astronomically, eighteen
chains and seventy-five links, more or less, to the point of commencement.

The vendor is owner of the said sold pieces or tracts of land for having aequired the
same from the Crown, by Letters Patent, dated the eighth day of September, eighteen
hundred and ninety-nine.

This present sale is made for the price and sum of four hundred and fifty dollars, paid
at the execution hereof, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged by the said vendor,
whereof quit for ever.

To have and to hold the said parcels or tracts of land by the said Purchaser his heirs
and assigns, administrators and successors forever at the ordinary charges of right,
and to take possession and enter upon immediately forthwith.

Thus done and passed at Maniwaki under the number one hundred and twelve of my
repertory, the first day of December, in the year nineteen hundred and two; and
after the reading hereof the said John P. Logue, President and the said James Martin,
Secretary, both representing the said Maniwaki Driving Club have signed with me
said Notary.

And the said Honorable Clifford Sifton, representing the herein above mentioned
Purchaser, the Crown in trust for the River Desert Band of Indians, has signed with
me said Notary.

(Signed) GJ 2) LOGUB eres:
(2) JAMES MARTIN, Secretary
(3) HENRY DESJARDINS, N.P.
(4) FRANK PEDLEY, Superintendent
General of Indian Affairs
(5) HENRY DESJARDINS, N.-P.

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A true copy of the orignal remaining in my office

HENRY DESJARDINS,
(L.8.) N.P.

Registration Division,
County of Wright,
Province of Quebec, Canada.

Registered at one o’clock P.M. 11th December 1902 Lib. B Vol. 6 No. 5808.
L: DUHAMEL

Registrar.

No. 475.

Kyow att Mun sy tHrese Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and
Principal men of The Whitefish Lake Band of Indians resident on our Reserve at
Whitefish Lake in the District of Algoma in the Province of Ontario and Dominion
of Canada, for and acting on behalf of the whole people of our said Band in Council
assembled, Do herebey release, remise, seurrender, quit claim and yield up unto Our
Soverrien Lorp Tre Kina, his Heirs and Successors forever, ALL AND SINGULAR,
The Hemlock, Spruce and Tamarac Timber on our aforesaid Reserve with the excep-
tion of four hundred acres to be retained for the purpose of providing timber for the
future wants of our Band, which said four hundred acres is described as follows—
Commencing at the Southerly end of Black Lake thence due South thirty nine chains
to Round Lake, thence easterly and South-easterly along the shore of the said Lake to
a point distant sixty five chains measured perpendicularly from the said line from
Blaek Lake to Round Lake, thence due north one Hundred and fourteen chains to
Black Lake, thence southwesterly following the shore of the same Black Lake to the
point of commencement.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto His said Majesty Ture Kina, his
Heirs and Successors forever, in trust to dispose of the same to such person or persons,
and upon such terms as the Government of the Dominion of Canada may deem most
(conducive to our welfare and that of our people.

AND upon the further condition that all moneys received from the disposition
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 in-
terests.

AND WH, the said Chief and Principal men of the said Whitefish Lake 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 disposal of the said timber and the disposition
of the moneys arising therefrom

IN WITNESS WiituittOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals
this Eighteenth day of June in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and Three

Signed, Sealed and Delivered, in the pre- z his
sence of MicureL NoorcHtTar x [L.S.]
Joun H. Esqumrauy eee
11S
Interpreten GrorGE PEPEHEMIS x [L.S.}

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