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which shall or may be hereafter made and published in respect of the same, and
under and in aceordance with the covenants, conditions, agreements, promises and
stipulations in the said grants, leases or licenses made, contained and expressed, and
further reserving all rights, privileges and easements heretofore granted by us,
or lawfully acquired in, to or upon the said lands and premises.

Given under the Great Seal of Our said Province of Nova Scotia.

Witness Our trusty and well beloved, His Honour the Honourable Adams George
Archibald, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, this twenty-eighth day of April, in
the forty-fifth year of Our reign, and in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight

hundred and eighty-two.

By His Honour’s command,
S. H. HOLMES,
Provinceal Secretary.

Province or Nova Scotta,]
Care Breton, 8.8. §

OFFICE OF REGISTRY OF DEEDs,
SyDNEY, June 9th, 1883.

I certify that the foregoing grant was registered in this office at nine o’clock,

forengon, of this day, in Grant Book D, page 412, pursuant to law.
JNO. GILLIS, Regr.

No. 256.

_ Kyow att MEN BY THESE Prrsents, that we, the undersigned Chiefs and

Principal Men of the Band of Ojibewa Indians owning the Indian reserve on the

River Desert, in the Township of Maniwaki, in the Province of Quebec, and Dom-

inion of Canada, 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

successors for ever, all and singular that certain portion or parcel of land containing

- by admeasurement four acres, be the same more or less, forming part of the Indian

reserve aforesaid, and which parcel of land may be known and described as follows,

and as laid down on the annexed traced plan of the same, that is to say: That portion

of Lot No. 4, River Desert Front, in the said Township of Maniwaki (formerly occu-

| pied as a farm by the late Chief Atwin Pekanawatik), bounded on the north by the

| holdings of Messrs. Hamilton Bros., on the west by the Desert River, on the south and
| east by a part of said lot now occupied by the successors of the said late Chief.

To have and to hold the same unto Her said Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and
successors forever, all and singular, that certain parcel or tract of land as above
described in trust, to be leased for a term of ten years to Mr. Sargeant B. Brock, to
build a steam sawmill thereon, at a rental of five dollars per acre per annum. The
said lease to be renewable from time to time, provided that the terms thereof shall
have been faithfully carried out by the lessee. The rent to be paid to the Superin-
tendent-General of Indian Affairs for the benefit of the grandson of the late Chief

Atwin Pekanawatik.
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 said lease of the aforesaid lands.

Ix Wrrxess Wuereor, 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 thirteenth day of June,
in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

Signed, sealed and delivered SIMON OTJIK,
-in the presence of: Interpreter.
z JouHN Wuire, Indian Agent. And six other Indians, Members of the Band.

Srmion Orsix, Interpreter.
And we hereby on oath certify before the Honourable Mr. Justice La Fontaine, —
Jud ee of Her Majesty’s Superior Court for the said Province of Quebec and Domin-
‘on of Canada aforesaid, that the annexed release or surrender was assented to and
executed by the Chiefs and Principal Members of the Band of Indians therein men-
tioned, assembled at a meeting of such Band and Tribe summoned for that purpose,
and who were entitled to vote thereat.
Sworn before me at Fontaine Vall,)
in the Township of Hull, in the
Province of Quebee, this four- JNO. WHITE,
teenth day of. July, in the year And one other Indian, a Member of the Band.
of Our Lord one thousand eight|
hundred and seventy-four. J
A. La Fontaine,
Judge of the Supr. Court, Prov. of Quebec. ©
Recorded 6th August, 1874.
Lib. S., Fol. 88.
R. W. Scort,

Secretary of State and Registrar-General of Canada.

No. 257.

Know att MEN By THESE PRESENTS, that we, the undersigned Chief and
Principal Men of the River Desert Band of Indians resident on our reserve’ in
Maniwaki, in the Province of Quebec 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 Township of Maniwaki, in the County
of Ottawa and Province of Quebec, containing by admeasurement ten thousand square
feet, be the same more or less, and being composed of a portion of Lot No. 3,
Desert Front Range, in the aforesaid Township of Maniwaki, described as follows :—
Commencing at the south-west corner of land leased to Joseph Moar; thence east
along the south limit of said land one hundred feet ; thence south parallel to the
Gatineau Road one hundred feet; thence west parallel to south limit of said land
leased to Joseph Moar one hundred feet to Gatineau Road ; thence north along the
east limit of Gatineau Road one hundred feet to the place at beginning.

To have and to hold the same unto Her said Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and
successors for ever, in trust, to lease 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 leasing
thereof shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management, be
divided annually or semi-annually to us and our descendants forever.

And we, the said Chief and Principal Men of the said River Desert Band of
Indians do, on behalf of our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and comfirm and
promise to ratify and confirm whatever the said Government may do, or cause to
be lawfully done in connection with the disposal of said parcel of land. .

ly Witness WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our-seals this
twenty-sixth day of December, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred

and eighty-seven. bad
Signed, sealed and delivered in Stmon Orsix, Chief. [L.S.]
the presence of: JOSEPH Muinass, Sub-Chief. [L.S.] °
Simon OTJIK, Matias Teuanana, Sub-Chief. [1.8.]
JOSEPH MINASS, Joun McDoveatt, Interpreter. [L.S.],
Matias TEHANANA, his
JAMES MARTIN, PETER x TENESCO, [L.8.]

Indian Agent. mark.