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GREAT BRITAIN (Canada).

habit any part of the said ceded tracts; and that they will not molest the person or property of any inhabitant of such ceded tracts, or the property of Her Majesty the Queen, or interfere with or trouble any person passing or travelling through the said tracts or any part thereof; and that they will aid and 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 have hereunto subscribed and set their hands at Berens' River, this 20th day of September, A.D. 1875, and at Norway House, on the 24th day of the month and year herein first above named.

(L.S.)
Alexander Morris, L.G.
(L.S.)
James McKay.
Their
X
Nah-wee-kee-sick-quah-yash, otherwise Jacob Berens, Chief.
X
Kah-wah-nah-kee-wee-nin, otherwise Antoine Gouin,
X
Nah-kee-quan-nay-yash,
X
Pee-wau-roo-wee-nin, Councillors.
marks.

Signed by the Chiefs within named in presence of the following witnesses, the same having been first read and explained by the Honourable James McKay:—

Thomas Howard and seven others.
(L.S.)
Alexander Morris, L.G.
(L.S.)
James McKay.
Their
X
David Rundle, Chief.
X
James Cochrane.
X
Harry Constatag,
X
Charles Pisquinip, Councillors.
X
Ta-pas-ta-num, or Donald Wm. Sinclair Ross, Chief.
X
George Garriock.
X Proud McKay, Councillors.
marks.

Signed at Norway House by the Chiefs and Councillors hereunto subscribing, in the presence of the undersigned witnesses, the same having been first read and explained by the Honourable James McKay:—

Roderick Ross, and nine others.

We, the band of the Salteaux Tribe of Indians, residing at the mouth of the Saskatchewan River, on both sides thereof, having had communication of the foregoing Treaty, hereby,