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== Transcribed Source Document ==
[[File:291 (1).png|thumb|Source document pg. 1<ref>Canada. Indian Treaties and Surrenders from No. 281 to No. 483. CIHM/ICMH Digital Series = CIHM/ICMH Collection Numérisée. Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, 1912.</ref>]]
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No. 291.


Know all men by these presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and Principal men of The River Desert Band of Indians resident on our Reserve in the Township of Maniwaki in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, for and acting on behalf of the whole people of our said Band in Council assembled, do hereby release, remise, surrender, quit claim and yield up unto Our Sovereign Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors forever, ALL AND SINGULAR, that certain parcel or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the Township of Maniwaki in the County of Ottawa and Province of Quebec containing by admeasurement three-eighths of one acre be the same more or less and being composed of a piece of land of a rectangular form one hundred and eleven feet along the Gatineau road and one hundred and forty-seven feet deep, bounded as follows on the North by portion of lot 3, Desert Front Range applied for by John Donovan on the West by the Gatineau public road, on the South and east by the unsurrendered portion of said lot 3, the said parcel of land being part of lot number three, Desert Front Range, Maniwaki.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty The Queen, her Heirs and Successors forever, in trust to lease the same to such person or persons, and upon such terms as the Government of the Dominion of Canada may deem most conducive to our welfare and that of our people.

AND upon the further condition that all moneys received from the leasing thereof, shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management, be paid to the heirs of the late Chief Pikerowatik.

AND WE, the said Chief and Principal men of the said Band of Indians do on behalf of our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confirm, and promise to ratify and confirm, whatever the said Government may do, or cause to be lawfully done, in connection with the leasing of said parcel of land.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this twenty-ninth day of December in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the presenc of:

James Martin,

Indian Agent.

Peter Tenesco

Chief

Louis Comondo

Sub-Chief

John M. Dougall

Interpreter


Peter Tenesco, Chief [L.S.]

Louis Pezzendewatch, 2nd Chief [L.S.]

John M. Dougall, Interpreter [L.S.]

Simon Otjik [L.S.]

Matias Tchanana [L.S.]

Jacko M. Dougal [L.S.]

Bazile Otjik [L.S.]

Michel Comondien [L.S.]

Charles Comondo [L.S.]

Joseph Jacko [L.S.]

Simon Tenesco [L.S.]

Albert Jabot [L.S.]

Peter Decoutrer [L.S.]

Francis Benjamin [L.S.]

William Lacroix [L.S.]

Benjamin Jolifoux [L.S.]

Lemab Pezzendewatch [L.S.]

Abraham M. Dougal [L.S.]


Dominion of Canada.

Province of Quebec

County of Ottawa

To Wit:


Personally appeared before me, James Martin of the village of Maniwaki in the County of Ottawa Province of Quebec Indian Agent and Peter Tenesco Chief of the said Band of Indians.


AND the said James Martin for himself saith:

That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by a majority of the male members of the said Band of Indians of the Maniwaki Reserve of the full age of twenty-one years then present.

That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band summoned for that purpose and according to their rules.

That he was present at such meeting or council and heard such assent given.

That he was duly authorized to attend such council or meeting by the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.

That no Indian was present or voted at said council or meeting who was not a member of the Band or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Surrender.

And the said Peter Tenesco says:

That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by him and a majority of the male members of the said Band of Indians of the full age of twenty-one years then present.

That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band of Indians summoned for that purpose, according to their rules, and held in the presence of the said James Martin.

That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not an habitual resident on the Reserve of the said Band of Indians or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Surrender.

That he is a Chief of the said Band of Indians and entitled to vote at the said meeting or council.

Sworn before me by the said Deponents James Martin and Peter Tenesco at the Village of Maniwaki in the County of Ottawa this 27th day of January A.D., 1891.


J. T. St. Julien

District Magistrate for the Districts of Ottawa & Terrebonne


Recorded 27th February 1891

Lib. 140, Fol. 39.


L. A. Catellier

Dep. Registrar General of Canada.
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