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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 parel- 
lelograms 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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