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No.

Post Office Department, Money Order Office,

Ottawa,

SIR,-The total number of international money orders which were issued in the Dominion of Canada from

18_____, to

18

inclusive, and were certified and transmitted by the several exchange offices of for payment in the United States, was

amounting to $.

The total number of such orders which were issued in the United States during the same period, and were certified and transmitted by said offices for payment in the Dominion of Canada, was $.

On account of which the Canadian office has already paid the following sums, viz.:

Difference remaining......

In accordance with Article VII of the Convention of

bill of exchange on New York, N.Y., for $.

1875, a

is herewith transmitted, the

receipt of which you will be pleased to acknowledge in due form.

Post Office Department, Money Order Office,
Washington, D.C.,

SIR,-The total number of international money orders which were issued in the United States from

18

to

18_, inclu

sive, and were certified and transmitted by the several exchange offices of for payment in the Dominion of Canada, was

amounting to $.

The total number of such orders which were issued in the Dominion of Canada during the same period, and were certified and transmitted by said offices for payment in the United States, was amounting to §.

On account of which the United States' office has already paid the following sums, viz:

a bill of exchange on Montreal, Canada, is herewith transmitted, the receipt of which you will be pleased to acknowledge in due form.

To the Postmaster-General of the Dominion of Canada,

Ottawa.

TREATIES of Peace, Cession, &c., between the Canadian Government and certain Nations and Tribes of Indians.1871-1875.

(1.)—TREATY with the Chippewa and Swampy Cree Tribes of Indians.-Lower Fort Garry, August 3, 1871.

ARTICLES OF A TREATY made and concluded this 3rd day of August, in the year of Our Lord 1871, between Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, by her Commissioner, Wemyss M. Simpson, Esq., of the one part, and the Chippewa and Swampy Cree tribes of India, inhabitants of the country within the limits hereinafter defined and described by their Chiefs, chosen and named as hereinafter mentioned, of the other part.

WHEREAS all the Indians inhabiting the said country have, pursuant to an appointment made by the said Commissioner, been convened at a meeting at the Stone Fort, otherwise called Lower Fort Garry, to deliberate upon certain matters of interest to Her Most Gracious Majesty, of the one part, and to the said Indians of the other:

And whereas the said Indians have been notified and informed by Her Majesty's said Commissioner that it is the desire of Her Majesty to open up to settlement and immigration a tract of country bounded and described as hereinafter mentioned, and to obtain the consent thereto of her Indian subjects inhabiting the said tract, and to make a Treaty and arrangements with them, so that there may be peace and good-will between them and Her Majesty, and that they may know and be assured of what allowance they are to count upon and receive, year by year, from Her Majesty's bounty and benevolence :

And whereas the Indians of the said tract, duly convened in Council as aforesaid, and being requested by Her Majesty's said Commissioner to name certain Chiefs and Headmen who should be authorized on their behalf to conduct such negotiations, and sign any Treaty to be founded thereon, and to become responsible to Her Majesty for the faithful performance, by their respective bands, of such obligations as should be assumed by them the said Indians, have thereupon named the following persons for that purpose, that is to say, Mis-Koo-Kenew, or Red Eagle (Henry Prince); Ka-KeKa-penais, or Bird for Ever; Na-sha-Ke-penais, or Flying down Bird; Na-na-wa-nanan, or Centre of Bird's Tail; Ke-we-tayash, or Flying round; Wa-Ko-wush, or Whip-poor-Will; Oi-za-we-Kwun, or Yellow Quill; and thereupon, in open Council, the different bands

have presented their respective Chiefs to his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Manitoba, and of the NorthWest Territory, being present at such Council, and to the said Commissioner, as the Chiefs and Headmen for the purposes aforesaid, of the respective bands of Indians inhabiting the said district hereinafter described :

And whereas the said Lieutenant-Governor and the said Commissioner then and there received and acknowledged the persons so presented as Chiefs and Headmen for the purpose aforesaid:

And whereas the said Commissioner has proceeded to negotiate a Treaty with the said Indians, and the same has finally been agreed upon and concluded as follows, that is to say:

The Chippewa and Swampy Cree tribes of Indians, and all other the Indians inhabiting the district hereinafter described and defined, do hereby cede, release, surrender, and yield up to Her Majesty the Queen, and her successors for ever, all the lands included within the following limits, that is to say: beginning at the International Boundary Line near its junction with the Lake of the Woods at a point due north from the centre of Roseau Lake, thence to run due north to the centre of Roseau Lake; thence northward to the centre of White Mouth Lake, otherwise called White Mud Lake; thence by the middle of the lake and the middle of the river issuing therefrom to the mouth thereof in Winnipeg River; thence by the Winnipeg River to its mouth; thence westwardly, including all the islands near the south end of the lake across the lake to the mouth of the Drunken River; thence westwardly to a point on Lake Manitoba, half way between Oak Point and the mouth of Swan Creek; thence across Lake Manitoba on a line due west to its western shore; thence in a straight line to the crossing of the Rapids on the Assiniboine; thence due south to the International Boundary Line, and thence eastwardly by the said line to the place of beginning, to have and to hold the same to Her said Majesty the Queen, and her successors for ever; and Her Majesty the Queen hereby agrees and undertakes to lay aside and reserve for the sole and exclusive use of the Indians the following tracts of land, that is to say, for the use of the Indians belonging to the band of which Henry Prince, otherwise called Mis-Koo-Kenew, is the Chief, so much of land on both sides of the Red River, beginning at the south line of St. Peter's parish, as will furnish 160 acres for each family of five, or in that proportion for larger or smaller families; and for the use of the Indians of whom Na-sha-Ke-penais, Na-na-wa-nanan, Ke-we-tayash, and Wa-Ko-wush, are the Chiefs, so much land on the Roseau River as will furnish 160 acres for each family of five, or in that proportion for larger or smaller families, beginning from the mouth of the river; and for the use of the Indians of