187 The above was also sworn to before me by James Farrell Indian Agent this 13th day of May 1896 at Andover Vic- toria County. Nem McQuvuarrir Police Magistrate. The above being first read over and explained to the said Frank Francis who seemed to thoroughly understand the same. Recorded 6th July 1896 Lib 148 Fol 244 JosEPH PopE Dep. Registrar General of Canada. No. 379. Kxow att Men py THESE Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and Principal men of The Band of Indians owning the Big Hole Indian Reserve resident on our Reserve in the County of Northumberland in the Province of New Brunswick 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 Big Hole Indian Reserve in the County of Northumberland and Province of New Brunswick containing by admeasurement one and one half Square miles be the same more or less and being composed of one and one half square miles of that tract of land known as the Big Hole Indian Reserve in the Parish of Northesk County and Province aforesaid Commencing at the south easterly corner of the said Big Hole Indian Reserve and extending Northward one and one half miles and west- ward one mile. Also all and Singular all birch Timber, Juniper roots and Juniper Timber in or upon the above described lands. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty THe Queen, her Heirs and Successors forever, in trust to lease the land and dispose of the said Timber and roots 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 and disposal as above shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of manage- ment, be paid to us and our descendants as to the Department of Indian Affairs may seem best in our interest AND WE, the said Chief and Principal men of the said Band of Indians do 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 disposal of the said land, Timber and roots and the disposition of the said money. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this Twenty fourth day of October in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety five 4 188 Signed, Sealed and Delivered, in the pre- his sence of PETER x JULIAN [L.S.] Wo. D. CARTER "iis. Louis x TENAS [L.S.] mark his LemMMy x RENOoU [L.S.] mark his THOMAS x WATT [L.S.] mark his ANDREW x WHITNEY [L.S.] mark his DoMINICK x ALEXANDER [L.S.] mark his JOHN x SApPiaA [L.S.] mark his LeMMy x Warp [L.S.] mark his JOSEPH x SAPPIA [L.8.] mark his Noet x Warp [L.S.] mark his JOHN x WARD [L.S.] mark his Noet x McCoy [L.S.] mark ‘ his PETER x SWASSIN [L.S.] mark his THOMAS x WARD [L.S.]} mark his PETER x SWASSIN JR [L.S.] mark his Louis x PAavuL [L.S.] mark his E PETER x SOMERVILLE [L.S.] mark his PETER x CAPLIN [L.8.] mark his Cain x McCoy [L.S.] mark his CaIN x PETER [L.S.] mark his JoHN x McKay [L.S.] mark his JOHN x WARD [L.S.] mark 189 his ALEXANDER x WARD ee ES3] mark his JOSEPH x PAUL [L.S.] mark his’ - BARNEY x SOMERVILLE [L.S.] mark his JOHN x CLOUD [L.S.] mark his PETER x SOMERVILLE SR. [L.8.] mark his PatRIcK x CLOUD [L.S.] mark his BARNEY x AUGUSTINE [L.8.] mark his Tom x MATTHEW [L.S.] mark his JOHN x SWASSIN [L.S.] mark his MICHAEL x WARD [L.S.] mark his THOMAS x JULIAN [L.S.] mark DOMINION OF CANADA, Personally appeared before me, Wm. D. _ PROVINCE OF Carter of Richibucto in the County of CouUNTY OF Kent in the Province of New Brunswick To Wit: Indian Agent and Peter Julian Chief of the said Band of Indians. AND the said William D. Carter 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 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 Super- intendent General 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 Peter Julian for himself says: i 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 That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not a habitual resident on the Reserve of the said Band of Indians or interested in the land mentioned-in the said Release or Surrender. 190 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 said Deponents at the Town of Newcastle in the County | Wituiam D. Carter of Northumberland this 25th day of his October A.D., 1895 PETER x JULIAN mark J. Niven, Police Magistrate Newcastle. Accepted by His Excellency the Governor in Council on the 1st July 1896. JOHN J. McGEE Clerk of the Privy Council. Recorded 18th July 1896 Lib: 138 Fol: 609 JosePpH Pore Dep: Registrar General of Canada. [ Great Seal ] No. 380. Province of British Columbia CROWN GRANT. FE. DEWDNEY Lieutenant-Governor. No. 4280 72 W.S. GORE Deputy Commissioner of Lands and Works. VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Treland, QUEEN, Defender of the Faith, and so forth. To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: KNOW YE, that We do by these presents, for US, Our Heirs and Successors, in consideration of the sum of Two hundred and thirty five Dollars, to US paid, give and grant unto Clement Francis Cornwall, Mary Cornwall and Arthur H. J. Martley their heirs and assigns, All that Parcel or Lot of Land situate in Kamloops division of Yale District, said to contain Two hundred and thirty five acres, more or less, and more particularly described on the map or plan hereunto annexed and coloured red, and numbered Lot four hundred and forty six (446) Group one (1) on the Official Plan or Survey of the said Kamloops division of Yale District in the Province of British Columbia, to have and to hold the said Parcel or Lot of Land, and all and singular the premises hereby granted, with their appurtenances, unto the use, as to one undivided one half interest of the said Clement Francis Cornwall his heirs, and