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That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band summoned
for that purpose and according to their 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 George Kehilen 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 their rules, and held in the presence of the
said

That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not an
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 Pat-
rick McTiernan and George Kehilen at
the city of Vancouver in the Province

P. McTIERNAN
Indian Agent.

. . . . hi =
of British Columbia this Seventh day GEORGE « KEHILEN
of January A.D., 1891. mark

Tsaac H. Honierr
A Stipendiary Magistrate in and for the
County of Westminster in British Columbia

Recorded 28th February 1891
Lib 140, Fol 42.
L. A. Carre ume
Dep: Registrar General of Canada

No. 294.

Know Att Men sy THESE Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and Prin-
<ipal men of Samson’s Band of Indians No. 137 resident on our Reserve situated in the
District of Alberta North West Territories and 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 Lady the
Queen, her Heirs and Successors forever, ALL AND SINGULAR, that certain parcel
or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the said Reserve in the dis-
trict of Alberta and Dominion aforesaid containing by admeasurement Forty three
acres be the same more or less and being composed of strip of land one Hundred feet
wide running through the Reserve from the southern boundary in a north easterly
direction until it strikes the western boundary of said Reserve as staked out for a right
of way for the Calgary and Edmonton Railway, and which may be more definitely
described as follows—Commencing at a point nine thousand two hundred and fifty
feet more or less from the point where the western limit of Bobtail’s Reserve inter-
sects the southern limit of Samson’s Reserve said starting point being on the centre
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line of the right of way intersecting the southern boundary of said Samson’s Reserve
and a continuation of the right of way running through Bobtail’s Reserve thence
north thirty two degrees fifty two minutes east eighteen thousand nine hundred and
twenty feet more or less until it intersects the northern limit of said Reserve.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty the Queen, her
Heirs and Successors forever, in trust to assign the same to such person or persons, -
ard 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 sale or assign-
ment thereof, shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management,
cbe placed to such use as Her said Majesty may deem proper.

AND WE, the said Chief and Principal men of the said Band known as Samson’s
Band 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 said land hereby surrendered.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals
this thirteenth day of April, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety one.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the pre- i his
canes of Samson Chief x [L.S.]
A. W. Pontor j no
D, L. Cuin«. KKAH-KEE-T0-HAT x [L.S.]
H.M. mark
his
MOOSE-TOOSE-OH-MAY x [L.S.]
H.M. mark
his
NAH-PAY-SIS x [L.S.]
H.M. mark
DOMINION OF CANADA, Personally appeared before me Hayter
District or ALBERTA, Reed of the Town of Regina in the Pro-
To Wit: visional District of Western Assiniboine
and Samson Chief of the said Band of

Indians.

And the said Hayter Reed for himself saith :—

_ That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented by a majority of the male
members of the said Band of Indians of the Samson Reserve Bear’s Hills 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 their 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 Samson 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 their rules, and held in the presence of the
said Hayter Reed

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That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not au
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 Hayter>

Reed and Chief Samson at the Town HAYTER REED '

of Calgary in the Provisional District es
of Alberta this 15th day of April, A.D., SAMSON x
1891. mark
JAMES MACLEOD
de ISh-Cle

Recorded 8th July 1891.
Liber, 185, Folio 310.
L. A. CatTeLuiEnr
Dep: Registrar General of Canada.

No. 295.

Know att Men sy tHese Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and Prin-
cipal men of Ermine Skin’s Band of Indians No. 138 resident on our Reserve situated
in the District of Alberta North West Territories and 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 Lady the
Queen, her Heirs and Successors forever, ALL AND SINGULAR, that certain parcel
or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the said Reserve in the Dis-
trict of Alberta and Dominion aforesaid containing by admeasurement sixty acres and
twenty seven hundredths of an acre be the same more or less and being composed of a
strip of land one hundred feet wide running through the Reserve from its Southern
boundary in a North Easterly direction as staked out for a right of way for the Cal-
gary and Edmonton Railway and more definitely described as follows—Commencing
where the right of way intersects the Southern boundary of the said Reserve which
said right of way being a continuation of the line running through Bobtail’s and
Samson’s Reserves thence North thirty two degrees fifty two minutes Mast seventeen
hundred and fifty one feet—thence on a thirty minute curve thirty one hundred feet
thence North seventeen degrees twenty two minutes East twenty one thousand six
hundred and sixty.nine feet more or less to its intersection with the East boundary of
said Reserve at a point nine hundred and eighty feet more or less from where the
Southern boundary of section twenty two Township forty five Range twenty four West
of the fourth Meridian would if projected due West intersect the East boundary of
said Reserve.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty The Queen, her
Heirs and Successoys forever, in trust to assign 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 sale or assign-
ment thereof, shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of manage-
ment, be placed to such use as Her said Majesty may deem proper.

AND WE, the said Chief and Principal men of the said Band known as Ermine
Skin’s Band do on behalf of our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confitm,
and promise to ratify and confirm, whatever the said Government may do, or cause to
be lawfully done, in connection with the said land hereby surrendered.