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No. 300.

CANADA.
Dufferin.

Great VicToRIA, BY THE GRACE OF Gop, OF THE Unitrep Kincpom or GREAT
Seal. Britain AND IRELAND QUEEN, DreFENDER OF THE Farru, &c., &c., &.

To all to whom these Presents shall come—GREETING:

Wuereas the Lands hereinafter described, are Dominion Lands,
and part and parcel of the lands surrendered to Her Majesty by the
Governor and Company of Adventurers, trading into Hudson’s
Bay, commonly called “ The Hudson’s Bay Company.”

Anp Wuereas, by the 3rd sub-section of the 32nd Section of
an Act of the Parliament of Canada passed in the thirty-third year
of Our Reign intituled: “An Act to amend and continue the Act
32nd and 33rd Victoria, Chapter 3, and to establish and provide for
the Government of the Province of Manitoba”; it is amongst other
things in effect, enacted (For the quieting of titles, and securing to the Settlers in
the Province of Manitoba, the peaceable possession of the lands held by them), that
“ All titles by occupancy, with the sanction and under the license and authority of
the Hudson’s Bay Company, up to the eighth day of March, 1869, of land in that
Province, in which the Indian title has been extinguished, shall, if required by the
owner, be converted into an estate in freehold, by grant from the Crown.”

Anp Whereas, by an Act to amend a certain other Act of the said Parliament
of Canada, passed in the thirty-eighth year of Our Reign, intituled: “An Act
respecting the appropriation of certain Dominion Lands in Manitoba,” after reciting
that it is expedient to afford facilities to parties claiming lands under the Third and
Fourth Sub-sections of the Thirty-second Section of the Act Thirty-third Victoria,
Chapter Three, to obtain Letters Patent for the same; it is enacted, “ That persons
satisfactorily establishing undisturbed occupancy of any lands within the Province
prior to, and being by themselves, or their servants, tenants or agents, or those
through whom they claim, in actual peaceable possession thereof, on the fifteenth day
of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, shall be entitled to receive Letters
Patent therefor, granting the same absolutely to them respectively in fee simple.”

Anp Whereas it has been represented satisfactorily established to Us that previous
to and on the fifteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy—The
Lord Bishop of Ruperts Land, was and from thence hitherto hath been and still is in
undisturbed occupaney and in actual peaceable possession of the lands hereinafter
described, being land in that part of the said Province of Manitoba in which the
Indian Title had on the last mentioned date been extinguished, and who, pursuant to
the Act firstly above mentioned, has required the said title by oceupaney to be con-
verted into an estate of freehold by grant from Us.

Now Know Ye, that in consideration of the premises, and in pursuance of the
Powers vested in Us by the said hereinbefore in part recited Acts, We, by these
presents, do grant unto the said Lord Bishop of Ruperts Land his successors and
assigns, Lot number Eighteen, in the Parish of Saint Paul, in the County of Lisgar
and Province aforesaid, as shown on a map or plan of River Lots in the Parishes of
Kildonan and Saint Paul, in the Said Province, dated 1st January 1875, Signed
by Jonh Stoughton Dennis, Surveyor General of Dominion Lands and of record in
that Branch of the Department of the Interior, known as the Dominion Lands Office,
containing by admeasurement One hundred and ninety-eight and forty four one
hundredths (19844400) acres more or less; Reserving thereout all “travelled roads ”
crossing the same, existing as such on the 15th day of July, 1870, which, by and under

Minister of Justice
Canada

A. LASH

Deputy of the

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the laws of Assiniboia, were, or may be held to be legally “ Public Highways”; and
further reserving thereout the right for any person or persons, at any time or times,
to land in connection with purposes of navigation of the Red River, upon the slope of
the river bank of the lands hereby granted, from any vessel, barge, boat or other
eraft, while navigating the said river, or whilst using the waters of the same for
purposes of navigation, and to plant on such slope of the river bank aforesaid, any
post or posts for attaching thereto any such vessel, barge, boat or other craft engaged
as aforesaid, and reserving further to Us, our successors and assigns, the free use,
passage and enjoyment of, in, over and upon all navigable waters that shall or may
hereafter be found on or be flowing through or upon any part or parcel of the land
hereby granted as aforesaid, and subject to such reservations.

To Have anp to Houp the said Parcel or Tract of Land, hereby granted unto
the said Lord Bishop of Ruperts Land, his Successors and Assigns for ever.

GivEN under the Great Seal of Canada:—Witness, Our Right Trusty and Well
Beloved Cousin and Councillor The Right Honorable Sir Frederic Temple, Earl of
Dufferin, Viscount and Baron Clandeboye of Clandeboye, in the County Down, in
the Peerage of the United Kingdom, Baron Dufferin and Clandeboye of Ballyleidy
and Killeleigh, in the County Down, in the Peerage of Ireland, and a Baronet,
Knight of Our Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick, Knight Grand Cross of Our
Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and Saint George, and Knight Commander
of Our Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor General of Canada, and Vice-
Admiral of the same.

At Ottawa this Twenty Second day of December in the year of Our Lord onc
thousand eight hundred and seventy Six, and in the fortieth year of Our Reign.

DAVID MILLS
Minister of the Interior.
By Command.
R. W. Scorr
Secretary of State.

Ref. No. 1763.
Grant No. 451.
Des. No. 455.

Reg. No. 1809.

I certify that the within Instrument is duly entered and Registered in the Registry
Office for the County of Selkirk in Book 1 Patent Register at 1.54 o’clock p.m. on the
15th day of December A.D. 1879.

W. H. KENNEDY
Registrar
No. 9603.
Recorded 12th January, 1877.
Lib. 42, Fol. 201.

L. A. Catenvier
Dep: Registrar General of Canada
Ref. No. 9395.

No. 301.

Tus InpENTURE, made (in duplicate) the thirteenth day of August in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Highty six IN PURSUANCE OF THE AcY
RESPECTING SHorT Forms or INDENTURES: Brirwren The Bishop of Ruperts Land a
corporation duly incorporated by a statute of the Province of Manitoba of the First