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No. 392.

Know att Men sy THESE Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and
Principal men of the River Desert Band of Indians resident on our Reserve in Mani-
waki in the County of Ottawa in the Province of Quebee 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 Maniwaki Indian
Reserve in the County of Ottawa and Province of Quebee containing by admeasure-
ment Thirty Acres be the same more or less and being composed of those certain
portions of Lots Nos. 10 and 11 in the Desert Front and Lots Nos. 25 in the 4th and
5th Ranges of the Maniwaki Indian Reserve aforesaid, including the Road allowances
between the said Lots and Ranges and which may be described as follows :—

Commencing at a point distant 8 chains from the North limit of the Road allow-
ance between the said Desert Front and the 4th Range and three chains West of the
line between Lots 9 and 10 in the Desert Front, thence South and parallel te the said
line 16 chains to a point in Lot 25 in the 4th Range; thence West astronomically 18
chains 75 links to a point in Lot 25, in the 5th Range; thenee North and parallel to the
‘said line between Lots 9 and 10, 16 chains to a point in Lot 11 in the Desert Front;
thence East astronomically 18 chains and 75 links more or less to the point of com-
mencement.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty THe Queen, her
Heirs and Successors forever, in trust to sell the same to such person or persons, and
upon such terms as the Government of the Dominion of Canada may deem most con-
ducive to our welfare and that of our people.

AND upon the further condition that all moneys received from the sale thereof,
shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management, be placed to °
our credit and the interest thereon paid to us and our descendants annually or semi
annually as to the Department of Indian Affairs may seem best in our interest.

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 confirm, anil
promise to ratify and confirm, whatever the said Government may do, or cause to be
lawfully done, in connection with the sale of the said land and the disposition of the
money to be derived therefrom.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our
seals this Eighteenth day of December in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and ninety seven.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered, in the pre- ) Louis ComMaNDAN [L.S.]
sence of SmMon Orsi [L.S.]
W. J. McCarrrey JOHN McDoucaL [L.8.]
Indian Agent Matias TcHaNaNa [L.S.1
JOSEPH ANINASS [L.S.]
DOMINION OF CANADA, Personally appeared before me, William
PROVINCE OF QUEBEC James McCaffrey Indian Agent of the
County or OTTAWA Village of Maniwaki in the Province of

To Wit: Quebee and John Medougal Chief of the f

said Band of Indians.

AND the said William James McCaffrey 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 Maniwaki Reserve of the full age of
twenty-one years then present.

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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 7
member of the Band or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Sur-
render.

And the cailal John Mecdougal says:
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That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by him and a majority o/
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 William James McCaffrey.

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

mecting or council.

Sworn before me by the said Deponents
s at the

Township of Maniwaki in the County
of Ottawa this Twenty-seventh day cf
January A.D., 1898. List Gta cere. Y
J. T. St. JuLmn
District Magistrate for the Districts
of Ottawa Terrebonne & Pontiac.

W J McCarerey Indian Agent
Joun McDoucat.

Recorded 1st. March 1898
Liber 148. Folio 489.
JosePH Pope

Dep Registrar General of Canada.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THi.iscsk PRESENTS,

That we, the undersigned Principal men of the Wahsahatanow Band of Indians,
owners of the Reserve situated at Wahsahatanow or Hollow-in-the-Hill Creek, on the
North Saskatchewan River, in the Provisional District of Alberta 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 Provisional District of Alberta aforesaid, and containing by admeasurement
twelve and a quarter square miles, be the same more or less, and being composed of
Indian Reserve No. 126, situated at Wahsahatanow or Hollow-in-the-Hill Creek, on
the North side of the North Saskatchewan River, about sixteen miles above the settle-
ment of Victoria, on the North trail to Edmonton, comprising Sections one, two, three,