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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

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DOMINION OF CANADA, Personally appeared before me, Charles
Province of Ontario L. D. Sims of the Village of Manitowan-
District of Maaitowlin ing in the Province of Ontario Indian
To Wit: Agent and Michel Nootcktai Chief of

the said Band of Indiaas.

AND the said Charles L. D. Sims 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 Whitefish Lake Band 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 its 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 Super-
intendent General of Indian Affairs.

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

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

And the said Michel Nootchtai says:

That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by him and a majerity 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 its Rules, and held in the presence of the
said Michel Nootchtai

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 Town of Gore Bay in the | C. L. D. SIMS
District of Manitoulin this 19th day of

June A.D., 1903 after these presents > \{[CTTEL NOOTCHTAT an

were read over to the said Michel marl
Nootehtai and the same interprcted by

John Esquimaux q

A. B. McCatuum
Judge, Manitoulin

Recorded 12th September 1903,
Lab: 176. Fol: 195.
P. PELLETIER
Acting Dep: Registrar General of Canada.

No. 476.

Know arp Men sy vrurse Presents, TITAT WE, the undersigned Chief and
Principal men of The Peigan Band of Indians resident on our Reserve in the District
of Alberta in the North West Territories 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 Lorp THe Kine his
Tleirs and Suecessors forever, ALL AND SINGULAR, that certain pareel or tract
of land and premises. situate, lying and being in the Peigan Indian Reserve in the
District of Alberta and North West Territories containing by admeasurement

he the same more or Jess and being composed of a Right of Way for a
road across the Indian Reserve known as the Peigan Timber Limit B., situated in
Township Nine, Range Thirty, West of the Fourth Meridian, consisting of a strip of
land, sixty-six feet wide, extending from a point near the centre of the Hasterly
boundary of the said Reserve in a North-Westerly direction to a point in the Westerly
boundary near the North West angle thereof, and as may be more particularly de-
fined hereafter by actual survey.—

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto His said Majesty Tue Kine, his
Heirs and Successors forever, in trust to be transferred tothe North West Govern-
ment for Road purposes

AND WE, the said Chief and Principal men of the said Peigan 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 transferring of the said portion of land as aforesaid

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals
this Twentieth day of April in the vear of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred anil
Three.

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