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MINERAL LANDS IN THE PARK. 



The following Order-in-Council was adopted 12th October, 1892, respecting 

 mineral lands within the Park : 



Whereas section 5 o, 1 ' the Act 55-56 Victoria, chaper 15, amending the 

 Dominion Lands Act, provides that lands containing coal or other minerals.including 

 lands in the Rocky Mountains Park, shall not be subject to the provisions of this Act 

 respecting sale or homestead entry, but the Governor-General-in-Council may, 

 from time to time, make regulations for the working and development of mines 



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on such lands, and for the sale, leasing, licensing or other disposal thereof; provided, 

 however, that no disposition of mines or mining interests in the said park shall 

 be for a longer period than twenty years, renewable, in the discretion of the 

 governor-in-council, from time to time, for further periods of twenty years each, 

 and not exceeding in all sixty years. 



His Excellency, in virtue of the provisions of the above cited Act, and by and 

 with the advice of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, is pleased to to make 

 the following regulations to govern the issue of licenses of occupation for the 

 working of mines and minerals within the Rooky Mountains Park of Canada : 



(1) Licenses to mine coal from lands within the park shall be disposed of by 

 public competition only, and the Minister of the Interior shall, from time to time, 

 as he may find expedient in the public interest, survey, lay out, and offer for dis- 

 posal by auction or by tender, locations for the mining of coal under such licenses. 



(2) The duration of such licenses shall be twenty years, unless sooner 

 terminated by consent of the Crown and the licensee, or cancelled for non-fulfil- 

 ment of conditions, and such licenses shall be renewable in the discretion of the 

 Governor-in-Council for farther periods of twenty years each and not exceeding 

 in all sixty years, on such terms and conditions as may at the time of renewal be 

 agreed upon by the government and licensee. 



(3) The ground rent shall be $1.20 per acre per annum, payable half yearly 

 in advance 



(4) A royalty of ten cents per ton shall be paid by the licensee on all coal, 

 taken out of the mine. Returns under oath shall be furnished quarterly to the 

 Minister of the Interior by the licensee, showing the quantity of coal taken out 

 and the royalty shall be paid at the time of making such returns. If the royalty 

 which is due for one half-year equals the rental paid for that half-year, then the 

 amount paid for rent shall be credited to such royalty. 



(5) The area to be licensed to one person shall not exceed three hundred and 

 twenty acres, and the licensee shall not make any transfer or assignment of his 

 license without the consent in writing of the Minister of the Interior. 



(6) The boundaries beneath the surface of the location shall be the vertical 

 planes or lines in which their surface boundaries lie. 



(7) The license shall be subject to the general regulations for the control and 

 management of the Piocky Mountains Park of Canada, dated the 30th June, 1890, 

 and to such farther and other regulations as ma} T be made from time to time in 

 that behalf l>y the Governor-in-Council. 



