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No, 172.

Kyow ant MEN By THESE PRESENTS, that we, the Chief and Principal Men of the
Band of Indians owning the Indian reserve lands at Richibugto, in the Province of
New Brunswick, being this day assembled in council, have agreed to surrender and
yield up unto Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and successors for
ever, all the right, claim and title which we possess of, in and to those certain
parcels of land lying and being on our reserve aforesaid, and which may be more
particularly known and described as follows : Situate in the Parish of Weldford, in

the County of Kent, in the Province aforesaid, on the north side of the Richibucto
River, being all that part of the said reserve contained within the following bound-

aries : Commencing at a hemlock tree in the north-western corner of the said
reserve, and following the rear hne of said reserve easterly to the brook at the head
of Big Cove Creek; thence along the western shore or bank of said brook and creek,
following the several courses thereof down stream to the Richibucto River ; thence
along the northern bank or shore of said river, up stream to the mouth of Bass
River: thence along the eastern shore of Bass River up stream to the western line
of the said Indian reserve ; thence along said western or upper line of the reserve

to the place of beginning, including the several lots at present occupied by the
following persons: John H. Graham, Thos. Graham, Michael Graham, George

Thompson, Joseph Ward, Wilham Ward, Joseph Clare, Moses Ward, George Horton,
Edward Warman, Thomas Graham, Peter Graham, William Warman, Alexander
Walker, Thomas Stevenson, William Harnett, Peter Walsh, Angus McLeod, Edward
Walker, jr., George Warman, Richard Warman, John Warman, Alexander Barm,
jr., John McEKachern, William Welt, John Young, Owen McAffray, William Con-
nors, George Flannagan, Peter Herbert, John Herbert and Ephraim Herbert. Also
two lots on the lower end of same reserve, fronting on the Richibucto River, at
present oceupied by John Brown, on the lower lot which is bounded eastwardly by
the Harley lot, or lower line of said Indian reserve, and adjoining the same, a lot
occupied by Alexander Glencross, each of these two latter lots supposed to eontain

one hundred acres.
Vith the object of the land in question being sold and the money received

invested for the benefit of our said Band of Indians. -
Tx Witness WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals at Welford

Parish, this twenty-ninth day of August, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight

hundred and seventy-nine.

Sioned, sealed and delivered,
having been previously read
and «interpreted in our pre-
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Province or New Brunswick. |

To Wit: {

We, the undersigned, hereby certify that the within surrender of lands was
freely assented to at a council assembled for the purpose at Big Cove, Richibucto, on
the sixteenth day of September, 1879, by a majority of the members of the Band,
entitled to vote thereat.

Sworn before me, at Neweastle, in his
the County of Northumberland, Norn x Murua, Chief.
this sixteenth day of September, eee
AD: 1879. Tom x JosepH, Captain.
Epwarp WILLISTON, mark.
Judge County Court, Northum- igen = Josepu, Captain.
berland, Gloucester and Resti- aEre
gouche. CHAS. SARGEANT.
Recorded 31st January, 1880. ]
Lib. 60, Folio 355. (

L. A. CatELuiER,
Deputy Registrar-General of Canada.

INO is.

Tus InpenrurE, made this nineteenth day February, in the year of Our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

Between Albert A. Webster, of Cambridge, in the County of Kings and Province
of Nova Scotia, Yeoman, and Margaret Jane Webster, his wife of the one part; wnd
Fler Majesty the Queen, represented in this behalf by the Right Honourable Sir John
Alexander Macdonald, K.O.B., Minister of the Interior of Canada, of the other part:

Witnesseth, that the said Albert A. Webster and Margaret Jane Webster, his
wife, for and in consideration of the sum of fifty dollars of lawful money ot Canada
to the said Albert A. Webster in hand well and truly paid by Her said Majesty,
represented as aforesaid, at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents (the
receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged), have and each of them hath granted, bar-
gained, sold, aliened, enfeoffed, released, remised, conveyed and confirmed, and by
these presents do, and each of them doth grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, release,
remise, convey and confirm unto Her said Majesty represented as aforesaid by the
Right Honourable the Minister of the Interior of Canada as aforesaid, Her heirs,
successors and assigns, all that certain lot or tract of land situate at Cambridge afore-
said and described as follows, viz.: Commencing at a bunch of stakes standing ciose
to a small blazed dead tree on the south line of lands said to belong to the heirs of
Nathan Tupper, deceased, and in the corner or line of lands of Saimuel Borden ;
thence south six degrees, west thirty-four rods to a corner on the side hill of the
bank of the Intervale of the Cornwallis River at a small blazed popple tree standing
a couple of feet north of a stone; thence south eighty-seven and one-half degrees,
east forty-seven rods to a corner at a stake near a small yellow pine tree blazed
standing in the line of lands belonging to the estate of Asahel Webster, deceased ;
thence along the west line of said Webster estate lands north six degrees, east thirty-