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received by him for the right to cut pulpwood and timber on the areas therein 

 mentioned, including the lands hereinafter referred to, subject to certain terms 

 and conditions of sale; 



And whereas in pursuance of such advertisement the Company did deliver 

 its tender to the said Minister, in and by which tender it offered to pay for such 

 pulpwood and timber on the territory described in said tender, the prices here- 

 inafter mentioned, which said prices were the highest received for the territory 

 covered by said tender, and also the highest offered pursuant to such advertise- 

 ment by any tenderer for pulpwood and timber in the District of Thunder Bay; 



And whereas with its tender aforesaid, the Company did deposit with the 

 Minister its marked cheque payable to the Honourable the Treasurer of the 

 Province of Ontario, for the sum of Fifty Thousand dollars ($50,000) ; 



And whereas it will be of great advantage to the Province of Ontario gener- 

 ally, and aid materially in the advancement, development and settlement of 

 the City of Fort William and the territory adjacent thereto, to have said plant 

 enlarged and the business of the Company placed on a permanent basis; 



And whereas in view of the matters above recited, the Minister has deemed 

 it wise and in the public interest to grant to the said Company the right to cut 

 pulpwood as herein provided and has caused this agreement to be prepared so 

 as to secure the erection by the Company of the said enlarged plant and at 

 the same time to assure to the Company a supply of pulpwood sufficient to 

 operate its enlarged plant to its full capacity for a period of twenty-one years 

 from the date hereof or any extension or extensions hereof as are hereinafter 

 provided for; 



Now this agreement witnesseth that the Minister with the approval of the 

 Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council, and subject to all the terms and conditions 

 hereof, doth hereby grant to the Company for a period of twenty-one years, 

 from the date hereof, the right to cut and remove in and upon such parts of the 

 following territory, situate, lying westerly of Lake Nipigon, in the District of 

 Thunder Bay and Province of Ontario, as may from time to time be designated 

 by the Minister, that is to say; 



Parcel One: 



Commencing at a point in the west limit of the Nipigon Forest Reserve 

 where it is intersected by the northerly base line run by Ontario Land Surveyors 

 Phillips & Benner in 1922, said point being north 6 miles, 53 chains, 35 links 

 from the northwest angle of Black Sturgeon River Pulp and Timber Limit; 

 thence west along said base line 17 miles, 79 chains, 70 links to the meridian 

 line, run by said Ontario Land Surveyors in 1922; thence south along said meri- 

 dian line 12 miles, to the southerly base line run by Ontario Land Surveyors 

 Phillips and Benner in 1922; thence west along the last mentioned base line 20 

 miles more or less to the 4 mile post planted by said Ontario Land Surveyors 

 on said base line and being at the distance of 4 miles east from the meridian line 

 run by Ontario Land Surveyor K. G. Ross in 1921; thence north astronomically 

 from said 4 mile post 44 miles; thence east astronomically 26 miles; thence south 

 astronomically 20 miles more or less to Ontario Land Surveyor Ross base line 

 in 1922; thence east along said last mentioned base line 12 miles more or less 

 to the westerly limit of the Nipigon Forest Reserve; thence north along said 

 limit 4 miles more or less to a point west astronomically from the southwest 

 angle of the Gull River Indian Reserve; thence east astronomically to the south- 

 west angle of said Indian Reserve and continuing east astronomically along the 

 south boundary of the same 6 miles, 40 chains, more or less to the shores of 



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