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and punishment any Indian offending against the stipulations of this Treaty, or infringing the laws in force in the country so ceded.

In witness whereof Her Majesty's said Commissioner and the said Indian Chiefs have hereunto subscribed and set their hands at Manitoba Post, this day and year herein first above named.

Their	Wemyss M. Simpson, Indian Commissioner
X	Mekes.
X	Son-sonse.
X	Ma-sah-kee-yash.
X	Francois.
marks.	Richard Woodhouse

Signed by the Chiefs within named in presence of the following witnesses (the same having been first read and explained):—

Adams G. Archibald, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the North-West Territories, and nine others.

 

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(3.)—TREATY with the Saulteaux Tribe of Ojibbeway Indians. North-West Angle of the Lake of the Woods, October 3, 1873.

Articles of a Treaty made and concluded this 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, the Honourable Alexander Morris, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories; Joseph Albert Norbert Provencher, and Simon James Dawson, of the one part; and the Saulteaux Tribe of the Ojibbeway Indians, inhabitants of the country within the limits hereinafter defined and described by their Chiefs, chosen and named as hereinafter mentioned, of the other part.

Whereas the Indians inhabiting the said country have, pursuant to an appointment made by the said Commissioners, been convened at a meeting at the North-West angle of the Lake of the Woods, to deliberate upon certain matters of interest to Her Most Gracious Majesty, of the one part, and the said Indians, of the other:

And whereas the said Indians have been notified and informed by Her Majesty's said Commissioners that it is the desire of Her Majesty to open up for settlement, immigration, and such other purposes as to Her Majesty may seem meet, a tract of country bounded and described as hereinafter mentioned, and to obtain the consent thereto of her Indian subjects