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GREAT BRITAIN (Canada).

been first read and explained in presence of the following witnesses:—

Thomas A. P. Towers. His Unzzari.
John Aitken.

X

Jas. Loganosh.
A. J. McDonald. mark. Pinllsise.

Lac Seul, June 9, 1874.

We, the Chiefs and Councillors of Lac Seul, Seul, Trout and Sturgeon Lakes, subscribe and set our marks, that we and our followers will abide by the Articles of the Treaty made and concluded with the Indians at the North-West Angle of the Lake of the Woods on the 3rd day of October, in the year of Our Lord 1873, between Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, by her Commissioners, Honourable Alexander Morris, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the North-West Territories, Joseph Albert N. Provencher, and Simon J. Dawson, of the one part; and the Salteaux tribes of Ojiboas Indians, inhabitants of the country as defined by the Treaty aforesaid.

In witness whereof Her Majesty's Indian Agent and the Chiefs and Councillors have hereto set their hands at Lac Seul, on the 9th day of June, 1874.

Their
R. J. N. Pither, Indian Agent.
X Chief John Cromarty.
X Ackemence, Councillor.
X Maineetainequire, Councillor.
X Nah-Kee-jeckwake, Councillor.
marks.

The whole Treaty explained by R. J. N. Pither.

Witnesses:
James McKenzie. His
Louis Kittson. X Nicholas Chatelaine.
marks.

(4.)—TREATY with the Cree, Saulteaux, and other Indians.
Qu'Appelle, September 15, 1874.


Articles of a Treaty made and concluded this 15th day of September, in the year of Our Lord 1874, between Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, by her Commissioners, the Honourable Alexander Morris, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories; the Honourable David Laird, Minister of the Interior, and William Joseph Christie, Esq.,