1921-22 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS 277 



AND WHEREAS on the 29th day of December, 1920, the said Minister 

 received from the Grantee a tender for the right to cut pulpwood and pine 

 timber on said area, which said tender has been approved and accepted, 



AND WHEREAS the grant of the right to cut pulpwood and pine timber 

 upon said area was, by said advertisement for tenders and by the tender of the 

 said Grantee, based upon and subject to certain terms, conditions and stipula- 

 tions, 



AND WHEREAS this agreement is entered into for the purpose of en- 

 suring the performance by the Grantee of the obligations contained in the said 

 tender and acceptance thereof as hereinafter defined and of securing the Grantee 

 the said supply of pulpwood and pine timber for the purpose of the mill or mills 

 to be established, maintained, conducted, and carried on at a point or points 

 within the District of Thunder Bay or some place approved by the Lieutenant- 

 Governor-in-Council, 



NOW THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH that, in 

 consideration of the premises, it is agreed by and between the Grantee and 

 the Crown as follows: 



1. The Grantee shall, on or before two years from the date hereof, have 

 in operation at a point or points within the District of Thunder Bay, or at the 

 Grantee's option at some other place, approved by the Lieutenant-Governor- 

 in-Council, a paper mill or mills with the necessary pulp mills therewith of a 

 value of not less than $1,500,000.00, and have in operation at some point or 

 points as aforesaid, within one year of the date of acceptance of tender, a mill 

 or mills of the value of not less than $1,000,000.00; and upon and after the 

 completion of said mills, the said Grantee, during the currency of this agreement, 

 shall, subject as hereinafter provided, continue to operate the said mills, and 

 shall employ and keep employed, in connection with the operation of said mills, 

 at least 300 persons on an average for at least ten months in each and every 

 year during the currency of this agreement. 



2. Commencing with the month of January, 1925, the Grantee shall, in 

 the month of January of each and every year during the currency of this agree- 

 ment, deliver to the Minister upon such form as the Minister may direct, a 

 statement, verified by the oath of the secretary of the Grantee, showing the 

 persons, who, during the calendar year ending with the thirty-first day of 

 December then next preceding, were employed by the Grantee in operating the 

 said mills, together with such other details in connection therewith as the 

 Minister may require. 



3. The Grantee shall manufacture at said mill or mills a quality of paper 

 equivalent to that now in use in the publication of school-books by the Depart- 

 ment of Education of the Province of Ontario, as may from time to time be 

 directed by the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council, and shall supply directly or 

 indirectly during the period covered by this agreement, such quantity of said 

 grade of paper as shall, in the opinion of the Minister of Lands and Forests, 

 fully satisfy the requirements of the said Department of Education at prices 

 to be agreed on, or in default of agreement at the then market price or prices, 

 which said market price or prices is or are to be ascertained and determined by 

 arbitration as follows: The same shall be referred and submitted to the arbitra- 

 tion, determination and award of three arbitrators, one arbitrator to be nom- 

 inated by the Minister, one arbitrator to be nominated by the Grantee, and the 

 third by the two so named, or in default of those two agreeing on the third, 

 such third arbitrator to be appointed by any judge of the Supreme Court of 



