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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.