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Kyxow ALL MEN By THESE PRESENTS that we, the undersigned Chiefs and Principal.
\fen of the band of Indians owning the Indian reserve in the Township of Maniwaki,
for and acting on behalf of our people, do hereby remise, release, surrender, quit claim
and yield up unto Our Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her heirs and,suecessors forever,
al] and singular those certain portions of land forming part of the Indian reserve
aforesaid and situated in the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada, and
lnown and described as follows, and as laid down on the annexed traced plan of the
same, that is to say :—

The front part of lots No. 1, 2 and 3, River Desert front, and on the said Indian
reserve, for a village or town plot, to be divided into building lots, and each lot to be
rented for a specified yearly rent for a term of twenty years, renewable from time to
time at the expiration of each term, the same yearly rent to be always transferred.
from lease to lease. The plot to extend from the Desert River to the south to a line
to be drawn parallel to the concession line and thirty chains to the north of said con-
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by John White, Indian Agent; and lots No. 15 and 16, same front, occupied and en-
joyed by one of the said Agent’s sons, named John White, Jr., to be rented to each
for a term of twenty years, renewable from time to time at the expiration of each
term, subject to the original and hitherto paid up rent of five dollars per year. On
the first three of the above lots there are about seventy acres of no value, as being
composed of lakes, ponds and swamps, the latter being of the worst description, run-
ning from side to side across the said three lots, the high water in spring rises from
<ix to ten feet above the surface, and there can never. be a fence of any kind made
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To have and to hold the same unto Her said Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and suc-
ecssors forever, all and singular those certain parcels or tracts of lands as above
described, in trust, to sell and convey the same to such person or persons and upon
sich rent as the Government of the said Dominion of Canada shall or may deem most
conducive to the interests of us, the said Chiefs and Principal Men, and our people
in all time to come.

And upon the further condition that the moneys received from the sale thereof,
shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expense of management be placed at
interest, and that the interest so accruing from such investment shall be paid annually
or semi-annually to us and our descendants in all time to come for ever.

And we, the said Chiefs and Principal Men of the band aforesaid do, on behalf of
our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confirm whatever the Government of
this Dominion of Canada may do or cause to be lawfully done in connection with the

aisposal and sale of the said lands.

In WITNESS WHEREOF, we, the said Chiefs and Principal Men, have set our hands
and have affixed our seals unto this instrument at River Desert, in the said Province
of Quebec and Dominion of Canada aforesaid, this nineteenth day of August, in the
year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

Signed, sealed and delivered] ATNON PAKINARRERTIK, Chief, [L.S.]
in presence of: § PacuacHecu, Dy. Chief, [L.S.]
JNO. WHITE, ANTMEN Prxirr, Dy. Chief, [L.s.]
S. R. Brook. And 24 other Indians, members of the
band.

And we hereby on oath certify before Robert Lyon, Esquire, Junior Judge of
Her Majesty’s County Court for the County of Carleton, in the Province of Ontario
and Dominion of Canada as aforesaid, that the annexed release or surrender was
assented to and executed by the Chiefs and principal members of the band of Indians
therein mentioned, assembled at a meeting of such band and tribe summoned for such
purpose, and who were entitled to vote thereat.

Sworn before me at the City of Ottawa,] Jno. WHITE,
in the Province of Ontario, this fourth| ATNON PAKINARRERTIK,

day of February, in the year of Our}
Lord one thousand eight hundred and|
seventy-four. J
Ropert Lyon,
_ Junior Judge of the County Court in and for the County of Carleton.
Recorded 22nd October, 1874. |
Lib. S., folio 135. \

R. W. Scort,
Secretary of State and Registrar-General of Canada.

No. 187.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

Vicrorta, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Queen, Defender of the Faith, &e., &e.

Know ant MEN sy THESE Presents that I, John Aldous, the Commissioner ot
Public Lands for Prince Edward Island, under the authority of an Act passed in the
sixteenth year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled: “ An
Act for the purchase of lands on behalf of the Government of Prince Edward Island,
and to regulate the sale and management thereof, and for other purposes therein men-
h tioned,” in consideration of the sum of one shilling of lawful current money of the

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