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WITNESSETH, the party of the first part sells and hereby grants and conveys unto the parties of 

 the second part the right and privilege to cut and take during the time stated herein, all the pine, 

 spruce, balsam, hemlock, tamarack, cedar, cherry, ash, basswood and poplar timber, not less than 

 ten (lo) inches in diameter at three (3) feet above ground, and suitable for lumbering or manufactur- 

 ing purposes, now standing on the land of the said party of the first part in Township eight (8) of 

 John Brown's Tract (so called) having a slope or water-shed to the Moose River or its branches or 

 tributaries, excepting all such timber standing on such lands as have been surveyed and laid off into 

 lots along the shores of Second, Third and Fourth Lakes, of the Fulton Chain of Lakes, and except- 

 ing also the timber standing within a line to be run at the expense of the party of the first part 

 around and not more than one-quarter mile distant from the shores of such bodies of water as the said 

 party of the first part shall elect to be suitable for hotel, camping or sporting purposes, it being under- 

 stood that the said line will be run at the maximum distance from the shores of said bodies of water 

 only where necessary to utilize the said shores within the said line for sale or occupancy for hotel, 

 cottage or camping purposes, and that where the party of the first part shall omit to indicate the 

 distance from any body of water by causing the said line to be run as aforesaid, the parties of the 

 second part shall cut over the lands around such body of water close down to the water's edge, and it 

 is agreed that the total amount of land so exempted from the operations of the parties of the second 

 part shall not exceed in quantity and amount in excess of what would be required to reserve twenty 

 (20) rods around the shores of all bodies of water, the area of which is herein excepted. The said 

 timber so sold shall be paid for at the price of six dollars ($6) per acre of the land cut over by the 

 parties of the second part as hereinafter provided, exclusive of the area of the lakes and ponds and 

 lands herein exempted, all the cutting as it progresses to be over contiguous territory, and the lands 

 cut over in any one year not to be isolated from the lands cut over in the previous year; and the said 

 parties of the second part may draw the timber to and pile and bank the same on any of the lakes cr 

 streams on said lands belonging to the party of the first part, at suitable and convenient places, but 

 not upon lands where camp sites are established or may be actually sold or leased, it being understood 

 that the party of the first part is bound to provide the parties of the second part with suitable piling 

 ground, and that the party of the first part will not sell or lease camp, hotel or cottage sites on any of 

 the lakes or ponds within the boundaries of the lands herein referred to (excepting on Second, Third 

 and Fourth Lakes of the Fulton Chain of Lakes) until after the parties of the second part shall have 

 cut over the lands surrounding the same, without first permitting the parties of the second part to 

 select and reserve the piling ground they may require for their operations under this contract ; the 

 parties of the second part to be allowed to designate piling ground on the land of the party of the first 

 part on the shores of said Second, Third and Fourth Lakes of the Fulton Chain of Lakes within one 

 year from the date hereof, selection to be confined to lands owned by the party of the first part at the 

 time the selection is made, and the party of the first part agrees not to sell all the lands on either 

 shore of any of the said lakes without first giving notice and reasonable time for such selection to the 

 parties of the second part, and any and all selection of piling ground shall be mutually agreed upon 

 by the parties hereto, their agents or representatives, to the end that future camp sites shall not be 

 injured or destroyed by such piling grounds, but if not determined as aforesaid, prior to October first 

 in each and every year, then the matter at issue shall be decided in the following manner : Each 

 party hereto shall choose a disinterested person, and the two persons thus chosen shall choose a 

 third person, and the decision of any two of the said three persons shall govern and bind the parties 

 hereto, and in the event of the party of the first part being unable to furnish the parties of the second 

 part suitable facilities for banking and piling logs to be cut from any particular portion of the lands 

 herein referred to, by reason of the sale of any camp sites prior to the date hereof, the said particular 

 portion of said lands shall be exempted from the operations of this contract, but if cut over shall be 

 paid for and shall only be exempt when so decided by arbitration as provided for herein in the case 

 where piling ground is to be decided upon. 



The parties of the second part may drive and boom the timber through the lakes and down the 

 streams on said lands and may erect such dams and booms and flood such lands and improve the 

 water-ways and streams thereon in such manner and to such extent, and, in so doing, take and use 



