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14. On or before the first of September in each year, the Company shall 

 apply to and get the permission in writing of the Minister for the area within 

 said territory on which the cutting for the then coming season shall take place, 

 and the Company shall not be entitled to cut at any place or places in said terri- 

 tory other than and except those specially designated in such permission. At 

 the end of each season's operations, and on or before the first day of June in each 

 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 quantities 

 of wood and timber taken therefrom. 



15. The Minister shall in and by the written permission provided for in 

 the preceding paragraph hereof, designate the kind or kinds of timber to be 

 cut on the area covered by such permission, and the Company shall cut all 

 merchantable wood and timber so designated on such area in such manner as 

 the Minister may from time to time direct. 



16. 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- 

 Go vernor-in-Council. The Minister shall fix the area upon which fire protection 

 charge is payable. 



17. 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. 



18. 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 wood and timber hereinbefore 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 hereinbefore 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 con- 

 tained, 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. 



19. 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 shall 

 have all the rights and powers in respect of enforcing such payment 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 October of the same year, or for one 

 month and thereafter at the rate of one per cent, per month until paid. 



20. The Minister shall have the right to inspect the timber operations on 

 the allotted territory 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 bonus as if it had been actually removed. The cutting and removing of 

 the timber on the territory, or any part thereof, shall not be deemed to have 



