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GREAT BRITAIN (Canada). We having had communication of the Treaty, certified copy whereof is hereto annexed, but not having been present at the Councils held at the North-West Angle of the Lake of the Woods 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 ourselves and the several bands of Indians which we represent, in consideration of the provisions of the said Treaty being extended to us and the said bands which wo represent, transfer, surrender, and relinquish to Her Majesty the Queen, her heirs and successors, to and for the use of her Government of her Dominion of Canada, all our right, title, and privilege whatsoever which we, the said Chiefs, and the said bands which we represent, have held, or enjoy, of, in, and to the territory described and fully set out in the said Articles of Treaty, and every part thereof, to have and to hold the same unto and to the use of her said Majesty the Queen, her heirs and successors, for ever.

And we hereby agree to accept the several provisions, payments, and reserves of the said Treaty as therein stated, and solemnly promise and engage to abide by, carry out, and fulfil all the stipulations, obligations, and conditions therein contained, on the part of the said Chiefs and Indians therein named to be observed and performed, and in all things to conform to the Articles of the said Treaty, as if we ourselves and the bands which we represent had been originally contracting parties thereto, and had been present and attached our signatures to the said Treaty.

In witness whereof Her Majesty's said Commissioners and the said Indian Chiefs have hereunto subscribed and set their hands, this 13th day of October, in the year of Our Lord 1873.

For and on behalf of the Commissioners, the Honourable Alexander Morris, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the North-West Territories, Joseph Albert Norbert Provencher, Esq., and the undersigned:—

Signed by S. J. Dawson, Esq., one of Her Majesty's said Commissioners, for and on behalf and with the authority and consent of the Honourable Alexander Morris, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the North-West Territories, and J. A. N. Provencher, Esq., the remaining two Commissioners, and himself, and by the Chiefs within named on behalf of them selves and the several bands which they represent, the same, and the annexed certified copy of Articles of Treaty having