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and every year, the Company shall file with the Minister a map indicating 

 thereon the area cut over during the preceding season, and the kinds and quan- 

 tities of wood and timber taken therefrom. 



19. The Minister shall have the right in and by the written permission 

 provided for in the preceding paragraph hereof, to fix a minimum diameter for 

 all timber to be cut and to make any regulations and impose any restrictions and 

 conditions in connection with the cutting of pulpwood and timber on such area 

 that he may think right and proper for the purpose of preserving young timber 

 in the interests of reforestation or for any other purpose. The Minister shall 

 also have the right to require the Company to leave any suitable seed trees that 

 may from time to time be selected by him, and to conform to any other regu- 

 lations in connection with the cutting of such pulpwood and timber he may 

 deem proper. 



20. The Company shall take such precautions and employ such means to 

 prevent injury or destruction by fire upon said territory as the Minister may 

 require, and shall pay an annual charge for fire protection of $3.20 per square mile, 

 or such other rate as may be from time to time fixed by the Lieutenant-Gover- 

 nor-in-Council. The Minister shall fix the area upon which fire protection 

 charge is payable. 



21. Pulpwood taken out in four foot or eight foot lengths shall be measured, 

 returned and paid for on the basis of 128 cubic feet to each stacked cord. Pulp- 

 wood taken out in lengths above 8 feet shall be measured in the log on the cubic 

 basis and each 100 cubic feet shall constitute a cord. 



22. It is distinctly understood that the Minister does not guarantee any 

 quantity of wood on the said territory and that the only right conferred upon 

 the Company hereby is the right to cut and remove wood and timber herein- 

 before described sufficient to enable the Company to operate its enlarged plant 

 continuously to its full capacity during said term of twenty-one years, and any 

 extension or extensions thereof as are hereinafter provided for on such areas 

 within said territory or within any other territory as from time to time may be 

 designated by the Minister pursuant and subject to the terms and conditions 

 herein contained, and subject to such further terms, conditions and regulations 

 as to the cutting, measuring, removing and driving of the same, as may from time 

 to time be imposed by the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council, or by the Minister. 



23. Proper sworn returns of the quantity of wood and other timber cut 

 each season shall be made to the Government in conformity with the Crown 

 Timber Regulations, and payment shall be made for such wood and timber not 

 later than the first day of October, in each year, and the Government in addition 

 to all the rights and powers herein contained shall have all the rights and powers 

 in respect of enforcing such payments as are now provided in the case of timber 

 cut under The Crown Timber Act, On all arrears of accounts due and payable 

 on October 1st, interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum shall be charged 

 up to the 31st of October of the same year, or for one month and thereafter at 

 the rate of one per cent, per month until paid. 



24. The Minister shall have the right to inspect the timber operations car- 

 ried on by the Company at any time he may deem it advisable, or in the public 

 interests so to do, and if such inspection shall show that the timber operations 

 are carried on in such a way that any merchantable or valuable timber, which 

 should be removed, is being left or destroyed, he shall have the right to estimate 

 the said timber and charge the same to the Company at the same rate of dues 

 and bonuses as if it had been actually removed. The cutting and removing 



