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No. 249.

Know ALL MEN By THESE PRESENTS, that we, the undersigned Chief and Princi-
pal Men of the Muskeg Lake Reserve, adjoining and lying south of Mistawasis
Reserve, and resident on our reserve of North-West Territories 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
(ueen, Her heirs and successors forever, all and singular that certain parcel or
iract of land and premises situate, lying and being in the Muskeg Lake Reserve,
in the North-West Territories of Canada, containing by admeasurement forty acres,
be the same more or less, and being composed of part of the Muskeg Lake Reserve,
and formerly occupied by the Roman Catholic Mission of that place : To have and
to hold the same unto Her said Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and successors forever,
in trust, to grant and assure 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 wel-
fare and that of our people.

And upon the further condition that all moneys received from the
thereof shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management, be
placed at interest, and that the interest money accruing from such investment shall
be paid annually or semi-annually to us and our descendants forever.

And we, the said Chief and Principal Men of the said Muskeg Lake Reserve, Hos
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 tract or parcel of land.

In Witness WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this

seventeenth day of January, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-eight.

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J. BATISTE x MISTASLOWK, [L.S.]
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DoMINION OF CANADA,
NortH-wEst TERRITORIES, |
Prince ALBERT.
To Wit: |

Personally appeared before me Joseph Finlayson, of Prince Albert, in the North-
West Territories, Indian Agent at Muskeg Lake Indian Reserve, and Petequakay,
Chief of the said Band of Indians.

And the said Joseph Finlayson for himself saith :

That the annexed release or surrender was assented to by a majority of the
male members of the said Band of Indians of the Muskeg Lake Reserve 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 Supt.
Genl. 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 Petequakay 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 Petaquakay.

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 several]

deponents, Joseph Finlayson,
and Petaquakay, Chief, at the J. FINLAYSON,

Town of Prince Albert, in the his
County of North-West Terri- PETAQUAKAY. am
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tories, this 24th day of Janu-
ary, A.D. 1888.

J. H. McGuire,
Judge of Supreme Court, North-west Territories, District of Saskatchewan.

Recorded 12th March, 1888. |
Lib. 127, Folio 161. f

L.. A. CATELLIER,
Deputy Registrar-General of Canada.

No. 250,

Kwow ALL MEN By THESE PRESENTS that we, the undersigned Chief and Principal Men
of the Rice Lake Band of Indians, resident on our reserve in the Township of Otonabee,
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, sur-
render, quit claim and yield up unto Our Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her heirs and
successors, all and singular that certain parcel or tract of land situate, lying and be-
in the Township of Otonabee, in the County of Peterborough and Province of Ontario,