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No. 237.

ArvicLes or A TREATY made and concluded the ninth day of September, in the
year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six :

Between James Farquarson McLeod, C.M.G., a Commissioner duly appointed
on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of the one part, and the Blood Indians in council,
composed of a majority of the male members of the Blood Band of the full age of
twenty-one years old and upwards, assembled and duly’ called together for the pur-
pose of considering and treating upon the subject hereinafter set forth, of the other
part, Witnesseth :

Whereas, by articles of a treaty made and concluded the second day of July, in
the year of Our Lord, 1883, between Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great
Britain and Ireland, by Her Commissioners the Honourable Edgar Dewdney and
James Farquarson McLeod, C.M.G., of the one part, and the Blood Indians, by their
Head and Minor Chiefs in council, of the other part, which treaty was afterwards, by
the majority of the male members of the said Blood Band of Indians of the full age
of twenty-one years assembled in council, ratified and confirmed, as witnessed by a
certain instrument bearing date the first day of February, A.D., 1884, made by
Mekasto, the Chief of the said Blood Indians, as by reference thereto will more fully
appear. E

Her Majesty the Queen, by Her said Commissioners, did grant unto the said
Blood Indians all that certain tract of land in the North-West Territories of Canada,
butted and bounded as follows, that is to say : Commencing on the north bank of the
St. Mary’s River at a point in north latitude forty-nine degrees twelve minutes and
sixteen seconds (49° 12’ 16”) ; thence extending down the said bank of the said river
to its Junction with the Belly River; thence extending up the south bank of the
latter river to a point thereon in north latitude forty-nine degrees twelve minutes
and sixteen seconds (49° 12’ 16”) ; and thence easterly along a straight line to the
place of beginning, excepting and reserving from out the same any portion of the
north-east quarter of section number three in township number eight, in range twenty-
two, west of the Fourth Principal Meridian, that may be within the above-mentioned
boundaries.

And whereas the said north-east quarter of section three was by mistake men-
tioned in the said treaty, instead of the north-west quarter of the said section, as
excepted from the tract of land so granted as aforesaid.

Now these Articles witness, that the parties hereto have agreed, and they do hereby
agree, that the said north-west quarter of section three in the township and range
aforesaid be the land excepted from the tract of land hereinbefore described, instead
of the north-east quarter of the said section; and that the tract of land herein-
before described, with the exception last mentioned, shall be and form the reser-
vation granted to the said Blood Indians by Her Majesty the Queen, as fully and
effectually as if the said north-east quarter of section three had not been particu-
larly mentioned in the said treaty.

In Witness Wuereor, the said James Farquharson McLeod, and at the unani-
mous request of the said council, Mekasto, Chief of the said Blood Indians and member
of ihe said council, have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals on the day and
year first above written, at the Blood Reserve, in the said Territories.

Signed, sealed and delivered) JAMES MACLEOD, [L.S.]
in the presence of: Comr.
Wm. POCKLINGTON, his
D. Mus, MEKASTO x (Rep Crow). [LS.]
Interpreter. mark.

M. KERRIGAN.
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DoMINION OF CANADA,

NorTH-WESt TERRITORIES.
Ao. Wit.

I, Mekasto (Red Crow), Head Chief of the Blood Band of Indians, make oath

and say :

That I was present and entitled to vote at a council composed of a majority of
the male members of the Blood Band of the full age of twenty-one years, duly called
to consider and rectify a mistake which was made in the description of the Blood
reservation, contained in the treaty dated the second day of July, A.D. 1883, held at
the Blood Reserve on the ninth day of September, A.D. 1886.

That the members of the said council unanimously assented to the correction of
the mistake made in the said treaty, as set forth in the articles of treaty hereto
annexed, after the matter had been thoroughly explained.

Sworn before me at the Blood Reserve] his
this ninth day of September, in the} MEKASTO x (Rep Crow).

year of Our Lord 1886. | mark.
JAMES MACLEOD,

pelo NM. Wit.
CANADA,
NortH-weEst TERRITORIES.
To Wit: J

I, James Farquharson Macleod, of Fort Macleod, in the North-West Terri-
tcries, Esquire, a Commissioner duly appointed to treat with the Blood Indians as
set forth in the articles of treaty hereto annexed, make oath and say :

That I was present at a council of the said Blood Indians composed of a majority
of the male members of the Blood Band of the full age of twenty-one years, held
at the Blood reservation on the ninth day of September, in the year of Our Lord
1886, and duly called together for the purpose of considering the matter of the said

That the said council unanimously assented to the said treaty, and requested
and authorized Red Crow, the Head Chief of the said Band, to execute the said
treaty for them, and the said Red Crow did accordingly, in my presence and in pre-
sence of the said council, execute the same. 3
JAMES F. MACLEOD.
Sworn before me at the Town of|

Regina, the North-West Terri-|
tories, this eleventh day of No-f
vember, in the year of Our Lord |

1886. J
Hucu RIcHARDSON,

Stip. Mag., N. W. T.

Recorded 6th February, 1887. |
Lib. 106, Folio 624. §

L. A. CATELLIER,
Dep. Registrar General of Canada.

No. 238.

Kyow aLL MEN sy THESE Presents, that we, the undersigned Chief and Prin-
cipal Men of the River Desert Indians resident on our reserve in Maniwaki, 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,