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12. The Grantees shall not have the right to cut or remove timber of 

 any kind from any lands while under timber license or permit from the Crown, 



13. The wood and timber shall be cut upon such portions of said terri- 

 tory, and in such manner as the Minister may from time to time direct, and 

 such precautions shall be taken and means employed to prevent injury or de- 

 struction by fire on said territory as said Minister may require, including pay- 

 ment of such annual charge for fire protection as may from time to time be 

 fixed by the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council. 



14. No wood or timber cut on the said territory shall be exported or 

 sold to any person or persons; but such wood or timber shall be used for the 

 purpose of supplying the mills of the said Grantees in the Town of Kenora as 

 aforesaid. 



15. The Grantees shall reserve such quantities of newsprint paper as 

 they may be required from time to time so to do by the Minister, for purchase 

 by publishers within the Dominion of Canada. 



16. Proper sworn returns of the quantity of wood or timber cut each 

 season shall be made by the Grantees to the Crown, in conformity with the 

 Crown Timber Act and Regulations thereunder, and payment shall be made 

 for such wood and timber not later than the 1st day of October in each year, 

 and the Crown shall have all the rights and powers in respect of enforcing such 

 payments as are now provided in the case of timber cut under timber license. 



17. The Grantees shall not, at any time or in any place, deposit, empty, 

 run or turn into any river, stream, or other waters whatsoever, any refuse, 

 sawdust, chemicals, or matter of any kind, which shall or may be injurious to 

 fish life, or have the effect of destroying, harming, or driving away the fish in 

 such river, stream, or water. 



18. All water powers and privileges on said territory, and the right of 

 the Crown to raise, hold, lower, and maintain the waters on the rivers, streams 

 and lakes in said territory at such height and in such conditions as may be 

 found necessary and expedient for the development of such water powers, are 

 reserved to the Crown. 



19. The Crown shall retain the right to sell, lease, locate or otherwise 

 dispose of any lands included in the said territory on the same t^rms and con- 

 ditions for settlement, mining, or other purposes, as ordinary Crown lands 

 situated elsewhere, and this agreement is not to impede or retard settlement, 

 or mining operations, and nothing herein contained shall limit or affect the 

 right of the Department of Lands and Forests to sell, lease, locate or otherwise 

 dispose of lands in the aforesaid territory for settlement, mining or other 

 purposes. 



20. Nothing herein contained or to be done hereunder or by virtue hereof 

 shall entitle the Grantees to a monopoly in the use of any rivers, streams, 

 or lakes or tributaries thereof in the said territory, but the same shall be and 

 continue open for the use of the public in accordance with the law in that 

 behalf, and in the event of the works of the Grantees in any way interfering 

 with the driving of logs or timber down the said rivers, streams, or lakes or 

 tributaries thereof, the Minister shall have full power to determine from time 

 to time the provisions necessary to overcome such interference and thereupon 

 the said Grantees as and when directed will make provision accordingly. 



21. It is distinctly understood and agreed that nothing herein contained 

 shall, without the consent in writing of the Minister, be deemed to confer any 



