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GREAT BRITAIN (Canada).
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order between each other, and between themselves and other tribes of Indians, and between themselves and others of Her Majesty's subjects, whether Indians, half-breeds, or white, now inhabiting, or hereafter to inhabit, any part of the said ceded tract; and that they will not molest the person or property of any inhabitant of such ceded tract, or the property of Her Majesty the Queen, or interfere with or trouble any person passing or travelling through the said tract or any part thereof; and that they will assist the officers of Her Majesty in bringing to justice 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 Commissioners, and the said Indian Chiefs and Headmen, have hereunto set their hands at Qu'Appelle, this day and year herein first above written.

Alexander Morris, Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories.
David Laird, Indian Commissioner.
Their
William J. Christie.
X Ka-kii-shi-way.
X Pis-qua.
X Ka-we-zauce.
X Ka-kee-na-wup.
X Kus-kee-tew-mus-coo-musqua.
X Ka-ne-on-us-ka-tew.
X Can-ah-ha-cha-pew.
X Ku-si-oaw-ah-chuck.
X Ka-ra-ca-toose.
X Ka-ku-nis-ta-haw.
X Cha-Ca-Chas.
X Wa-Pii-Moose-too-sus.
X Gabriel Cote, or Mee-may.
marks.

Signed by the Chiefs and Headmen within named in presence of the following witnesses, the same having been first read and explained by Charles Pratt:—

W. Osborne Smith, C.M.G., Lieut.-Col., D.A.G., Commanding Dominion Forces in North-West, and 20 others.

We, members of the Saulteaux tribe of Indians, having had communication of the Treaty hereto annexed, made on the l0th day of September instant, between Her Majesty the Queen and the Cree and Saulteaux Indians and other Indians at Qu'Appelle Lakes, but not having been present at the Councils held at the Qu'Appelle Lakes between Her Majesty's Commissioners and the several Indian Chiefs and others therein named, at which the Articles of the said Treaty were agreed upon, hereby for our selves and the band which we represent, in consideration of the provisions of the said Treaty being extended to us and the said