163 “LAND REGISTRY ACT.” For Attorney. I HEREBY CERTIFY that Charles E. Pooley personally known to me, appeared before me and acknowledged to me that he is the person who subscribed the name of Thomas Ellis to the annexed Instrument as the maker thereof that the said Thomas Ellis is the person mentioned in the said Instrument as the maker thereof, that he knows the contents of the said Instrument, and that he subscribed the name of Thomas Ellis voluntarily as the free act and deed of the said Thomas Ellis. IN TESTIMONY whereof, I have hereto set my Hand and Seal of Office at Victoria B.C. this 26th day of September, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hun- dred and ninety-four. B. H. Tyrwuirr Drake [L.8.] Notary Public. No. 474 A Registered the 2nd. day of October 1894 In Absolute Fees Book Vol. 2 Folio 121. BE DUCK District Registrar. [L.8.] Certificate of Title No. 474 A 2nd. October 1894 Name of Owner. epecluse, Kes Date of Registration. Parcels, Short Description. Her Most Gracious Majesty|Fol. 121, vol. 2. |2nd October , 1894, 9.50|Part (1947%, acres) of lot 250, Queen Victoria. a.m. group 1, Osoyoos division, Yale istrict. Inst of Instruments. 9th July 1888 The Crown to Thomas Ellis Grant in Fee of Lot 250 Group 1 Osoyoos Division of Yale District 26th September 1894 Thomas Ellis (by his attorney Charles E. Pooley of Power filed No. 40c) to Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria Conveyance in Fee of Part (194°%00 acres) of said Lot as per plan annexed colored pink ID TL AE OKOLE [L.8.] District Registrar No. 369. Know att Men spy THESE Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and Principal men of The River Desert Band of Indians resident on our Reserve in the Township of 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, quit claim and yield up unto Our Sovereign Lady The Queen, her Heirs and Successors forever, ALL AND SINGULAR, that certain parcel 288—133 164 or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the Maniwaki Indian Reserve in the County of Ottawa and Province of Quebec containing by admeasure- ment Seventy Five acres be the same more or less and being composed of lot Number Five in the Desert Front Range in the aforesaid Township of Maniwaki TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty Tur 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 conducive to our welfare and that of our people. F AND upon the further condition that all moneys received from the sale thereof, shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management, be paid to our credit and the interest thereon paid to us and our descendants as to the Depart- ment of Indian Affairs may appear 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 sale of the said land and the disposal of the money derived therefrom. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this Thirteenth day of August in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety five. i ealed and Delivered, in the pre- his eae . g e Peter x TENESco Chief [L.S.] mark JAMES MARTIN MicueL Comonpo Sub Chief [L.S.] Indian Agent his JOHN x M. Doueaty Interpreter [L.S.] mark CuarLes McDoucaL [L.S.] his JoHN BULL x MAKATENEIS [L.S.] mark his LEME x MICHEL [L.S.] mark his Louis x PEZZENDWATCH [L.S.] mark his - JoHN WHITEDUCK [L.8.] mark MATIAS TCHANANA [L.S.] his FRANK x Covart [L.S.] mark his LeMaB x PEZZENDEWATCH [L.S.] mark his WILLIAM x LACROIX [L.S.] mark his WinuiaM x JABoT [L.S.] mark his ANTOINE x TENESCO [L.8.] mark 165 his FRANK x BENJAMIN [L.S.] mark ; his PETER ANTOINE x COMONDO [L.8.] mark his JoHN B x Comonpo [L.8.] mark his MIcHEL x BUCKSHOT [L.8.] ’ mark his XAVIER x JABOT [L.8.] mark - his MICHEL x JABOT [L.S.]J mark his JOSEPH x LACROIX [L.8.] mark his JACKO x DECONTIER [L.8.] mark his XAVIER x MAKETEMONIAS erSe| mark his ToMEA x MENIAS [L.S.] mark DOMINION OF CANADA, ’ Personally appeared before me, James PROVINCE OF ONTARIO Martin of the Village of Maniwaki in CounTY OF OARLETON the Province of Quebec Indian Agent for To Wit: the River Desert Band of Indians and Peter Tenesco Chief of the said Band of Indians. AND the said James Martin 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 River Desert 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 Tenesco 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 James Martin 166 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. That he is a Chief of the said Band of Indians and entitled to vote at the said meeting or council. Read to the deponent Peter Tenesco before being sworn to Sworn before me by the Deponent James Martin and Peter Tenesco at the | JAMES Martin City of Ottawa in the County of Carle- _his Tex ton this 28th day of August A.D., 1895 gaan ENESCO Witu1am Mosarove Judge County Court of the County of Carleton Accepted by the Governor General in Council on the 14th Octr. 1895 JOHN J. McGEE Clerk of the Privy Council. Recorded, 25th October, 1895, Lib: 188, fol: 542, L. A. CATELLIER Dep: Registrar General of Canada. Extract from a Report of the Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by His Excellency on the 14th October, 1895. On a Memorandum dated 10th October, 1895, from the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, submitting herewith a surrender, made in duplicate, by the River Desert Band of Indians, of Lot No. 5 in the said reserve, containing seventy-five acres of land, the object of the surrender being to admit of the disposal of the same for the benefit of the band. The Minister states that the surrender has been assented to, executed and attested in the manner required by section 39 of the Indian Act, and he recommends the same for the approval of Your Excellency as required by the said section, the duplicate thereof, which is submitted herewith, to be kept of record in the Privy Council Office, and the original to be returned to the Department of Indian Affairs. The Committee submit the same for Your Excellency’s approval. JOHN J. McGEE Clerk: of the Privy Council. The Honourable The Superintendent General of Indian Affairs. No. 370A. THIS INDENTURE made this twelfth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety five, BETWEEN, Millicent E. Nevers of the City of Saint John in the Province of New Brunswick, Spinster, John P. Purvis of Burton In the County of Sunbury, in the said Province, Laborer, and Ella A. C. Purvis his wife of the first part, and, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN of the other part: WHEREAS the said parties hereto of the first part have agreed with Her Majesty The Queen for the absolute sale to Her Majesty of the said lands and premises