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ENTRY YEAR MONTH DAY NO. FIRSTNATIONSURRENDERING OTHERSURRENDERER LOCATIONNAME COUNTY INDEXTEXT PAGE VOLUME
1513 1888 5 5 316 R. B. ARGUS, HON. DONALD A. SMITH, EDMUND B. OSLER, AND WM. B. SCARTH ELKHORN MANITOBA (GEO. HERBERT ROWSWELL, AND OTHERS, TRUSTEES) BY R. B. ARGUS, HON. DONALD A. SMITH, EDMUND B. OSLER, AND WM. B. SCARTH. LOTS 4 TO 7, BLOCK 2, ADDITION TO TOWN OF ELKHORN, MAN. FOR INDIAN HOME 51
1704 1892 5 9 316 BRIDGE RIVER BAND LILLOOET DISTRICT PART OF RESERVE NO. 1 (160 ACRES) 64
1807 1892 5 9 316 BRIDGE RIVER BAND LILLOOET DISTRICT BY BRIDGE RIVER BAND. PART OF RESERVE NO. 1 (160 ACRES) 64

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No. 316.

Know All Men By These Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and Principal men of The Bridge River Band of Indians resident on our Reserve in the Lillooet Indian District in the Province of British Columbia 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 Lillooet Indian District in the Province of British Columbia containing One Hundred and Sixty Acres be the same more or less and being composed of that certain portion of Reserve Number One of the Bridge River Indians of the Lillooet Indian District, in the Province of British Columbia, as set forth in the attached tracing by being colored blue thereon and described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the Northerly limit of the said Reserve with the left Bank of Thirteen Mile Creek, thence South Easterly following the base of the mountains two miles thence at right angles 200 chains a quarter of a mile more or less to the left bank of Bridge River, thence following the said left bank of Bridge River North Westerly and the left bank of the said Thirteen Mile Creek to the place of beginning.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty the Queen, her Heirs and Successors forever, in trust to dispose of 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 further condition that all moneys received from the disposal thereof, shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management, be placed to our Credit and. interest thereon paid to us and Our descendants annually or semi-annually.

AND WE, the said Chief and Principal men of the said Bridge River 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 disposal of the said land.

In Witness Whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this ninth day of May in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Ninety Two.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the presence of:

Wm. Laing-Meason

Indian Agent


Chief David [L.S.]

James Swiggle [L.S.]

George Swiggle [L.S.]

Francis [L.S.]

Saul [L.S.]

Mathias [L.S.]

Michele [L.S.]

Simon [L.S.]

Shorty [L.S.]

Alexander [L.S.]


DOMINION OF CANADA

Province of British Columbia

County of Lillooet

To Wit:

Personally appeared before me, Wm. Laing-Meason Indian Agent of the Agency of Williams Lake in the Province of British Columbia and David Chief of the said Band of Indians.

AND the said Wm. Laing-Meason, Indian Agent, 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 Bridge River 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 David, Chief of the Bridge River Band of Indians 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 David, Chief of Bridge River Band.

That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not a 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 Deponents David & William Laing-Meason at the Town of Clinton in the County of Cariboo this thirteenth day of June A.D. 1892.

David

Wm. Laing-Meason


M. W. Tyrwhitt Drake

Judge of the Sup: Court B.C.


Recorded 16th August, 1892.

Lib: 134, Fol 505.

L. A. Catellier

Dep: Registrar General of Canada.



  1. Canada. Indian Treaties and Surrenders from No. 281 to No. 483. CIHM/ICMH Digital Series = CIHM/ICMH Collection Numérisée. Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, 1912.