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mowing machines when ready for their use, and a like propor- 

 tion for smaller or larger families. The aforesaid articles, 

 machines and cattle, to be given once for all for the encourage- 

 ment of agriculture and stock raising; and for such Bands as 

 prefer to continue hunting and fishing, as much ammunition 

 and twine for making nets annually as will amount in value 

 to one dollar per head of the families so engaged in hunting 

 and fishing. 



And the undersigned Cree, Beaver, Chipewyan and other 

 Indian Chiefs and Headmen, on their own behalf and on behalf 

 of all the Indians whom they represent, do hereby solemnly 

 PROMISE and engage to strictly observe this Treaty, and also 

 to conduct and behave themselves as good and loyal subjects of 

 Her Majesty the Queen. 



They promise and engage that they will, in all respects, 

 obey and abide by the law; that they will maintain peace 

 between each other, and between themselves and other tribes of 

 Indians, and between themselves and others of Her Majesty's 

 ■subjects, whether Indians, half-breeds or whites, this year 

 inhabiting and hereafter to inhabit any part of the said ceded 

 . territory ; and that they will not molest the person or property 

 ■of any inhabitant of such ceded tract, or of any other district 

 or country, or interfere with or trouble any person passing or 

 travelling -through the said tract or any part thereof, and that 

 they will assist the officers of Her Majesty in bringing to 

 justice and punishment any Indian offending against the 

 ■stipulations of this Treaty or infringing the law in force in 

 the country so ceded. 



EEPOET OF SENATE COMMITTEE, 1888. 



The Select Committee appointed by your Honourable House 

 "to inquire into the resources of the Great Mackenzie Basin and 

 the country eastward to Hudson Bay, have the honour to 

 Tnake their Third Eeport as follows: 



EEGARDING NAVIGATION. 



1st. The extent of the scope of the inquiry covers one 

 million two hundred and sixty thousand square statutory miles, 

 -which area includes none of the islands of the Arctic 

 Archipelago. 



2nd. Its coast line on the Arctic Ocean and Hudson Bay 



