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No. 168.
This Indenture made the fifteenth day of January, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight:
Between William Elias Jones, of Swan River, in the North-west Territories, Gentleman, and Her Majesty Queen Victoria—
Witnesseth, that the said William Elias Jones, for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar of lawful money of Canada, to him in hand paid by Her Majesty (the receipt whereof is hereby by him acknowledged), doth grant and surrender unto Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, all and singular that certain strip of land, one chain and a half in width situated, lying and being in the North-west Territories of the Dominion of Canada, and being composed of that part of the public trail or traveled road leading from Westbourne to Fort Ellice, which lies within the south-east quarter (fractional) of section nineteen in the sixteenth township in the twenty-third range, west of the Principal Meridian in the said North-west Territories. To have and to hold the said strip of land hereby granted and surrendered, or intended so to be, unto Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors forever. In Witness Whereof, the parties hereto have hereunto set their hands and seals. Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of A. McDonald.
W. E. Jones. [L.S.]
Canada, North-West Territories, Swan River. To Wit.
I, Allan McDonald, of Swan River, in the North-west Territories, make oath and say:
I was personally present and did see the within Instrument duly signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-named William Elias Jones, the party thereto. That the said Instrument was executed at Swan River, in the North-west Territories. That I know the said William Elias Jones. That I am a subscribing witness to the said Instrument. Sworn before me at Swan River, in the North-West Territories of the Dominion of Canada, this fifteenth day of January, A.D. 1878.
Matw. Ryan, Stipendiary Magistrate.
Recorded 1st February, 1878. Lib. 27, Fol. 523.
L. A. Catellier, Deputy Registrar-General of Canada.
- ↑ Canada Department of Indian Affairs. Indian Treaties and Surrenders, from 1680-1890. Ottawa: S.E. Dawson printer to the King’s most excellent majesty, 1905.