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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 Agent and myself.

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 two deponents

Matthew Hill and Solomon Loft, at MATTHEW Bini;
the Town of Deseronto, in the County SOLOMON LOFT,
of Hastings, this 22nd day of May, Chief.

A.D. 1889.
E. B. FRraveck,
Judge of County of Hastings.

Recorded 25th June, 1889,
Lib. 128, Fol. 447.

L. A. CaTenuier,
Dep. Registrar-General of Canada.

No. 268.

TERRITORIES.

Number 1322.
R. 6, Folio 224.

CANADA,

CERTIFICATE OF OWNERSHIP.
Assiniboia Land Registration District.

This is to certify that the Honourable the Superintendent-General of Indian
Affairs for the Dominion of Canada is now the owner of an estate in fee simple of
and in the north half of section number twenty-eight (28), in township number
seventeen (17), in range number twenty (20), west of the Second (2nd) Meridian, in
the Provisional District of Assiniboia, in the North-West Territories of the Dominion
of Canada, containing by admeasurement three hundred and twenty (320) acres of
land, more or less, subject to the encumbrances, liens and interests notified by memor-
ial underwritten or endorsed hereon, or which may hereafter be recorded in the
Register of Title, and to the reservations contained in the grant thereof from the
Crown.

Ix Witness Wnereor, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal
this fifteenth day of May, A.D. 1888.

GEO. A. MONTGOMERY, [L.S.]
Registrar, Assiniboia Land Registration District.

P. O. Address : Ottawa, Ont.

No. 269.

Know att Men sy THESE Presents, that we, the undersigned Chief and Prin-
cipal Men of the Rat Portage Band of Indians resident on our reserve Number 38
B, near the Village of Rat Portage, in the District of Rainy River, 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 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 District of Rainy River and Province of Ontario, containing by
admeasurement two thousand nine hundred and eighty-three acres, be the same

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