government and other rights, privileges, liberties, franchises, powers, and authorities, and all the lands and territories (except and subject as in the said terms and conditions expressed or mentioned) granted or purported to be granted by the said Letters Patent, and also all similar rights which have been exercised or assumed by the said governor and company in any parts of British North America not forming part of Rupert's Land, or of Canada, or of British Columbia, in order and to the intent that, after such surrender has been effected and accepted under the provisions of the lastmentioned Act, the said Rupert's Land may be admitted into the Union of the Dominion of Canada, pursuant to the herein-before mentioned Acts or one of them. And whereas the said terms and conditions on which it has been agreed that the said surrender is to be made by the said governor and company (who are in the following Articles designated as the company) to Her said Majesty are as follows (that is to say):—

1. The Canadian Government shall pay to the company the sum of 300,000l. sterling when Rupert's Land is transferred to the Dominion of Canada.

2. The company to retain all the posts or stations now actually possessed and occupied by them or their officers or agents (whether in Rupert's Land or any other part of British North America), and may within twelve months after the acceptance of the said surrender select a block of land adjoining each of their posts or stations within any part of British North America not comprised in Canada and British Columbia in conformity, except as regards the Red River Territory, with a list made out by the company and communicated to the Canadian Ministers, being the list in the annexed schedule. The actual survey is to be proceeded with, with all convenient speed.

3. The size of each block is not to exceed in the Red River Territory an amount to be agreed upon between the company and the Governor of Canada in Council.

4. So far as the configuration of the country admits, the blocks shall front the river or road by which means of access are provided, and shall be approximately in the shape of parallelograms, and of which the frontage shall not be more than half the depth.

5. The company may, at any time within 50 years after such acceptance of the said surrender, claim in any township or district within the fertile belt in which land is set out for settlements, grants of land not exceeding one-twentieth part of the land so set out; the blocks so granted to be determined by lot, and the company to pay a rateable share of the survey expenses, not exceeding 8 cents Canadian an acre. The company may defer the exercise of their right of claiming their proportion of each township or district for not more than 10 years after it is set out, but their claim must be limited to an allotment from the lands remaining unsold at the time they declare their intention to make it.

6. For the purpose of the last Article the Fertile Belt is to be bounded as follows:-On the south by the United States' boundary; on the west by the Rocky Mountains; on the north by the Northern Branch of the Saskatchewan River; on the east by Lake Winnipeg, the Lake of the Woods, and the waters connecting them.

7. If any township shall be formed abutting on the north bank of the northern branch of the Saskatchewan River, the company may take their one-twentieth of any such township, which, for the purpose of this Article, shall not extend more than five miles inland from the river, giving to the Canadian Dominion an equal quantity of the portion of land coming to them of townships established on the southern bank of the said river.

8. In laying out any public roads, canals, or other public works, through any block of land reserved to the company, the Canadian Government may

take without compensation such land as is necessary for the purpose, not exceeding one twenty-fifth of the total acreage of the block; but if the Canadian Government require any land which is actually under cultiva tion, or which has been built upon, or which is necessary for giving the company's servants access to any river or lake, or as a frontage to any river or lake, the said Government shall pay to the company the fair value of the same, and shall make compensation for any injury done to the company or their servants.

9. It is understood that the whole of the land to be appropriated within the meaning of the last preceding clause shall be appropriated for public purposes.

10. All titles to land up to the eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, conferred by the company, are to be confirmed.

11. The company is to be at liberty to carry on its trade without hindrance in its corporate capacity, and no exceptional tax is to be placed on the company's land, trade or servants, nor any import duty on goods introduced by the said company previously to such acceptance of the said surrender.

12. Canada is to take over the materials of the electric telegraph at cost price; such price including transport, but not including interest for money, and subject to a deduction of ascertained deterioration.

13. The company's claim to land under an agreement of Messrs. Vankoughnet and Hopkins is to be withdrawn.

14. Any claims of Indians to compensation for lands required for purposes of settlement shall be disposed of by the Canadian Government in communication with the Imperial Government; and the company shall be relieved of all responsibility in respect of them.

And whereas the surrender herein-after contained is intended to be made in pursuance of the agreement, and upon the terms and conditions herein-before stated.

Now know ye, and these presents witness, that, in pursuance of the powers and provisions of the Rupert's Land Act, 1868,* and on the terms and conditions aforesaid, and also on condition of this surrender being accepted pursuant to the provisions of that Act, the said governor and company do hereby surrender to the Queen's Most Gracious Majesty, all the rights of government, and other rights, privileges, liberties, franchises, powers, and authorities, granted or purported to be granted to the said governor and company by the said recited Letters Patent of His late Majesty King Charles the Second; and also all similar rights which may have been exercised or assumed by the said governor and company in any parts of British North America, not forming part of Rupert's Land or of Canada, or of British Columbia, and all the lands and territories within Rupert's Land (except and subject as in the said terms and conditions mentioned) granted or purported to be granted to the said governor and company by the said Letters Patent. In witness whereof, the governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay, have hereunto caused their common seal to be affixed, the nineteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

31 & 32 Vict, c. 105.