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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384

DOMINION OF CANADA,
Northwest Territories
District of Alberta

To Wit:

— —“~

PERSONALLY APPEARED before me, R. N. Wilson of the Peigan Indian
Reserve, the agent of the Peigan Band in the District of Alberta;

AND the said R. N. Wilson for himself saith:-

That the aunexed Release or Surrender was assented to by a majority of the male
members of the said Band of Indians of the Peigan Indian 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 summone:l
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 such council or meeting who was not 1
member of the Band or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Sur-
render.

Sworn before me by R. N. Wilson the
above named deponent at the Town of + »
Macleod, District of Alberta this 3rd. Bw
day of August A.D., 1903.
R. G. MacDonneip
A Justice of the Peace in and
for the North West Territories

DOMINION OF CANADA,
Northwest Territories, i
District of Alberta; |
To Wit:

PERSONALLY APPEARED before me Black Plume, Chief of the Peigan Band

of Indians in the District of Alberta,

And the said Black Plume 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 its Rules, and held in the presence of the
said Black Plume:

That no Indian was present or voted at such Council or Meeting who was not 2
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:

Swors before me by Buack PLUME the- _his
above Deponent at the Town of Macleod Ba ie:

in the District of Alberta this 20th day Witness
of June A.D. 1903. Tom M. DaLy
Interpreter.
P. C. H. Prirose

A Justice of the Peace in and
for the North West Territories
DOMINION OF CANADA, Personally appeared before me, R. N.
Province of Wilson of the Peigan Indian Reserve the
County of Agent of the Peigan Band in the District

To Wit: of Alberta and Black Plume Chief of the

said Band of Indians.

AND the said R. N. Wilson 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 Peigan Indian 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 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
member of the Band or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Sur-

render.

And the said Black Plume 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 its Rules, and held in the presence of the
said

That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not a
babitual 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.

Sweks before me by the Deponents
at the ot in the :
County of this
day of A.D., 190 .

Recorded 9th September 1903,
ibs, Hol: i771;
P. PELLETIER
Acting Dep: Registrar General of Canada.

INGOs ine

Icxow ALL Mn py rrtese Presents, TELAT WE, the undersigned Chief and Princi-
pal men of MICHEL’S BAND OF INDIANS resident on our Reserve in the District of
Alberta in the North West Territories in the Dominion of Canada, tor 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 Soverrian Lorp Tue Kine, his
Heirs and Successors forever, ALL AND SINGULAR, that certain parcel or tract of
Jand and premises, situate, lying and being in the Michel Indian Reserve in the North
West Territories containing by admeasurement Seven Thousand eight hundred acres,

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