APPENDIX 



TREATY XO. 8. 



AETICLBS OP A TREATY made and concluded at the 

 several dates mentioned therein, in the year of Our Lord one 

 thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, between Her Host 

 Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, by 

 Her Commissioners the Honourable David Laird, of "Winnipeg, 

 Manitoba, Indian Commissioner for the said Province and the 

 Xorth-West Territories; James Andrevr Joseph McKenna, of 

 Ottawa, Ontario, Esquire, and the Honourable James Hamilton 

 Boss, of Eegina, in the Xorth-West Territories, of the one part; 

 and the Cree, Beaver, Chipewyan and other Indians, inhabi- 

 tants of the territory within the limits hereinafter defined and 

 described, by their Chiefs and Headmen, hereunto subscribed, 

 of the other part: — 



"Whereas, the Indians inhabiting the territory hereinafter 

 defined have, pursuant to notice given by the Honourable 

 Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs in the year 1898, 

 been convened to meet a Commission representing Her Majesty's 

 Government of the Dominion of Canada at certain places in 

 the said territory in this present year 1899, to deliberate upon 

 certain matters of interest to Her ]\[ost Gracious Majesty, of 

 the one part, and the said Indians of the other. 



And wheeeas, the said Indians have been notified and 

 informed by Her Majesty's said Commission that it is Her 

 desire to open for settlement, immigration, trade, travel, mining, 

 lumbering, and such other purposes as to Her Majesty may 

 seem meet, a tract of country bounded and described as here- 

 inafter mentioned, and to obtain the consent thereto of Her 

 Indian subjects inhabiting the said tract, and to make a treaty, 

 and arrange with them, so that there may be peace and good 

 will between them and Her Majesty's other subjects, and that 

 Her Indian people may know and be assured of what allow- 

 ances they are to count upon and receive from Her Majesty's 

 bounty and benevolence. 



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