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the surrender select a block of land adjoining each of its posts
within any part of British North America not comprised in Canada
and British Columbia in conformity except as regards the Red River
Territory with 4 list made out by the Company and comniunicated
to the Canadian Ministers being the list in the Schedule to the
Deed of Surrender. The actual survey is to be proceeded with,
with all convenient speed.”

3. “The size of each block is not to exceed 10 acres round
Upper Fort Garry, 300 acres round Lower Fort Garry ; in the rest
of the Red River Territory a number of acres to be settled at
once between the Governor in Council and the Company but so
that the aggregate extent of the blocks is not to exceed 50,000
acres.”

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 parellelograms
 of which the frontage shall not be more than half the
depth.”

5. «The Company may for fifty years after the surrender,
claim in any township or district, within the Fertile belt, in
which land is set out for settlement, 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 eight cents Canadian an
acre. The Company may defer the exercise of their right of
claiming the proportion of each township for not more than ten
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. “Tor the purposes 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: on the East by
Take 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
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