289 The Committee submit the foregoing recommendation for Your Excellency’s approval. Ww. A. HIMSWORTH, Certified. Clerk Priwy Council. W. A. HimswortH, Clerk Privy Council. We, the undersigned Chiefs and Headmen of Indian bands representing bands of Indians who were parties to the Treaties Nos. 1 and 2,mentioned in the report of a Committee of the Queen’s Privy Council of Canada, ‘‘as printed on the other side ‘of this parchment,” having had communication thereof and fully understanding the same, assent thereto and accept the increase of annuities therein mentioned on tne condition therein stated, and with the assent and approval of their several bands, it being agreed, however, with the Queen’s Commissioners, that the number of braves and councillors for each Chief shall be four, as at present, instead of two, as printed 1875. Signed near Fort Alexander, on the : his Indian Reserve, the twenty-third KAKEKEPENAIS, X or : ae r mark day of August in the year of Our (WinLiaM PENNEFATHER), Lord one thousand eight ‘nundred mG and seventy-five. JOSEPH x KENT, Witnesses: . mark J. A. N. PROVENCHER, his Ass a ee Shae PETANAQUAGE Indian Commissioner. 8 Ay mark J. DuBuc, (HENRY VANE), A. Dusuc, his JosepH MonkMAN, Interpreter. PETER x HENDERSON, Wma. Lount, mark “ 1s H. L. Reynorps. KAY-PAYAHSINISK, xX 5 = mark Signed at Broken Head River, the his twenty-eighth day of August, in the NASHAKEPENAIS, X : _ year of our Lord one thousand eight SaaS hundred and seventy-five. AHKEESEEKWASKEMG, xX Witnesses : mark J. A. N. PROVENCHER, his - : Eres NAYWAHEHEEKEEGIK, X Indian Commissioner. mark J. DuBUC, his H. L. REYNOLDS, MAYJAHKEEGEEQUAN, xX DanieL DEVLIN, mark Henry Cook his PAYSAUGA, x mark Recorded 13th March, 1877.) Lib. 44. Folio 6. { L. A. CATELLIER, Dep. Registrar General of Canada. 1244, Cory of a Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by His Excellency the Governor General in Council on the 80th April, 1875. On a memorandum dater 27th April, 1875, from the Honourable the Minister of the Interior, bringing under consideration the very unsatisfactory state of i—19 290 affairs arising out of the so-called “outside promises” in connection with the Indian Treaties Nos. 1 and 2, Manitoba and North-west Territories, concluded, the former on the 38rd August, 1871, and the latter on the 21st of tne same month, and re- commending for the reasons stated :— ist. That the written memorandum attached to Treaty No. 1 be considered as part of that treaty and of Treaty No. 2, and that the Indian Commissioner be instrueted to carry out the promises therein contained, in so far as they have not yet been carried out, and that the Commissioner be advised to inform the Indians that he has been authorized so to do. Qnd. That the Indian Commissioner be instructed to inform the Indians, parties — to Treaties Nos. 1 and 2, that while the Government cannot admit their claim to anything which is not set forth in the treaty and in the memorandum attached thereto, which treaty is binding alike upon the Government and upon the Indians, yet, as there seems to have been some misunderstanding between the Indian Commissioner and the Indians in the matter of Treaties Nos. 1 and 2, the Govern- ment, out of good feeling to the Indians, and as a matter of benevolence, is willing to raise the annual payment to each Indian under Treaties Nos. 1 and 2 from $3 to $5 per annum, and make payment over and above such sum of $5, of $20 each’ and every year to each Chief, and a suit of clothing every three years to each Chief and each Headman, allowing two Headmen to each band; on the express understanding, however, that each Chief or other Indian who shall receive such increased annuity or annual payment shall be held to abandon all claim whatever against the Government in connection with the so-called “outside promises,” other than those contained in the memorandum attached to the treaty. The Committee submit the foregoing recommendation for Your Excellency’s approval. W. A. HIMSWORTH, Certified. Clerk Privy Council. W. A. HimswortH, Clerk Privy Council. We the undersigned Chiefs and Headmen of Indian bands representing bands of Indians who were parties to the Treaties Nos. 1 and 2 mentioned in the report of a Committee of the Queen’s Privy Council of Canada, as printed on the other side of this sheet, having nad communication thereof and full understanding the same, assent thereto and accept the increase of annuities therein mentioned, on the condition therein stated, and with the assent and approval of their several bands, it being agreed, however, with the Queen’s Commissioners, that the number of braves and councillors for each Cnief shall be four, as at present, instead of two, as printed. Signed on the reserve at Rosseau MA+NA-WA-NANAN, (or CENTRE OF BIRD’S River, 8th day of September, 1875. hiswyes J. A. N. PROVENCHER, Tait), x Chief, Indian Commissioner. mark ae Witness: KE-WE-SAY-ASH, (07 Fiyinc ROUND), x Jas. F. GRAHAM. mark Chief, his Wa-koo-wusuH, (07 WHIPPOORWILL), X mark Chief, his OSAH-WEE-KA-KAY, Councillor, x mark “i his Osays-Ko00-Koon, Councillor, x mark 291 his SHAY-WAY-ASH, Councillor, x mark . his SHE-SHE-PENSE, Councillor, x mark his MaA-MAH-TAK-CUM-E-CUP, Councillor, x mark ; his PAH-TE-CU-WEE-NINN, Councillor, x mark his KAK-KA-QUIN-IASH, Brave, x mark his ANA-WAY-WEE-TIN, Brave, x mark his TIBIS-QUO-GE-SICK, Brave, x mark his NE-SHO-TA, Brave, x mark his NAT-TEE-KEE-GET, Brave, x mark Recorded 18th March, 1877. ) Lib. 44, Fol. 4. L, A. CATELLIER, Dep. Registrar-General of Canada. No. 125. ARTICLES oF TREATY made and concluded this twenty-first day of August, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, between Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, by Her Commissoner Wemyss M. Smpson, Esquire, of the one part, and the Chippewa Tribe of Indians, inhabitants of the country within the limits hereinafter defined and described, by their Chiefs chosen and named as hereinafter mentioned, of the other part. Whereas, all the Indians inhabiting the said country have, pursuant to an appointment made by the said Commissoner, been convened at a meeting at Manitoba Post to deliberate upon certain matters of interest to Her Most Gracious Majesty, of the one part, and to the said Indians of the other; and whereas ‘the said Indians have been notified and informed by Her Majesty’s said Commissioner that it is the desire of Her Majesty to open up to settlement and immigration a tract of country bounded and described as hereinafter mentioned and to obtain the consent thereto of her Indian subjects inhabiting the said tract, and to make a treaty and arrangement with them, so that there may be peace and good will between them and Her Majesty and that they may know and be assured of what allowance they are to count upon and receive from Her Majesty’s bounty and benevolence. And whereas the Indians of the said tract, duly convened n council as aforesaid, and being requested by Her Majesty’s said Commissioner to name certain Chiefs and Headmen who should be authorized on their behalf to conduct such negotiations and ‘sign any treaty to be founded thereon, and to become responsible to Her Majesty for the faithful performance by their respective bands of such obligations as shall be assumed by them, the said Indians have thereupon named the following persons for that purpose, that is to say :— For the Swan Creek and Lake Manitoba Indians, Sou-sonse or Little Long Kars; for the Indians of Fairford and the neighboring localities, Ma-sah-kee-yash or “ He i—194